skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was struck by this too. The culmination of technology we have in smartphones blows my mind when i stop to think about it.

Something struck me while watching the video on that page though 'if you want me to find the correlation between cervical injury and stroke - it would take me about a minute to determine that, and who determined that and on what basis'

What would he have been using, at that time, to find that out?
Efficiency is always a big deal and at Apple's scale any slice of a percent is great. The supply chain for these materials seems to have predominately shifted to an internal resource as opposed to an external cost variable. This process also started small and slow but is starting to snowball. Apple has developed a supply chain that is efficient and still gaining efficiencies.
Not to mention all the social and environmental issues.
The title from AP is misleading. They are not using any "AI" but a simple principle component analysis and a Monte Carlo minimizer.

> In this approach, we apply principal components
analysis (PCA) to a large library of high-fidelity, high-
resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic
(GRMHD) simulations and obtain an orthogonal basis of
image components. PRIMO then uses a Markov Chain Monte
Carlo (MCMC) approach to sample the space of linear
combinations of the Fourier transforms of a number of PCA
components while minimizing a loss function that compares the
resulting interferometric maps to the EHT data.

As an exercise in matching up MHD models with real data this can be an interesting study. Too bad the reporting is so off point, as usual. But I guess adding "AI" to your titles gets you more clicks these days.
I could imagine that!

Out of curiosity, how do you think you might do in a 1-on-1 coding interview doing something incredibly basic, like:

- Sum an array.

- Write FizzBuzz.

- Count the words in a string.

- Compute the length of a linked list.

Assume you get to use the language of your choice and a familiar text editor. You aren't being graded on semicolons or gotchas. And the interviewer isn't hovering too closely.

Because that's the situation that always mystified me. How many people freeze up under reasonably favorable interview conditions to the point that they can't write even basic code? (And would those people be able to pair on a tricky bug when production is down?)

I absolutely do read a candidate's online code, if they mention it in their resume. That only seems respectful. And I think it might be reasonable to waive in-person coding tests if someone is obviously competent.

(Of course, now that Copilot is getting smarter, it's going to be harder to evaluate people's GitHub repositories or to include trivial problems in pre-interview screens.)
Given the quality of his posts, it's fairly clear he spends approximately 0 seconds thinking about or researching them before posting them.
When run at full-steam, MacBooks, iPads and iPhones can churn significant amount of data for their sizes, and use significant amount of energy. The batteries sold by Apple are pretty dense for their sizes, and they sell a lot of them.

It will definitely add up.
+1
I find it hard not to read that sort of writing style as condescending.
Realistically what would Apple have to do here to satisfy you?
The university and a Kangaroo court should not be involved in either of these cases, we have real police and courts for that.
I think you should connect all your kitchen if you can xD
>> But the possibility that you can be sued, I guess that is what the community is so harsh about. They should rewrite the policy, so that even a 5 year old can't be sued, imho.

The possibility of lawsuits and licensing fees for crates, projects, etc. that have been in use for years is a big part of the worry.

It goes against the spirit of good will that the Rust community is known for and has a 'bait and switch' feel to some people.
Global CTX 5.7T-pixel image of the surface of Mars in 3D
How did they think you can fake coughing up blood? Fake coughing, sure, but blood?

I know hypochondria exists, but I think doctors should start out by taking patients seriously and gather some actual proof that a patient's real problem is hypochondria before dismissing their complaints.
What you call a "shutdown spree" I call a "focus fest".
I can only speak for myself, but in my view Google is an notoriously unreliable partner because it often pulls products and services with relatively short notice, and often with a poor path forward if at all.

Not saying Microsoft is perfect, but in my personal experience they've been a lot better in these key metrics.
> We present a new reconstruction of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of the M87 black hole from the 2017 data set. We use PRIMO, a novel dictionary-learning-based algorithm that uses high-fidelity simulations of accreting black holes as a training set. By learning the correlations between the different regions of the space of interferometric data, this approach allows us to recover high-fidelity images even in the presence of sparse coverage and reach the nominal resolution of the EHT array. The black hole image comprises a thin bright ring with a diameter of 41.5 ± 0.6 μas and a fractional width that is at least a factor of 2 smaller than previously reported. This improvement has important implications for measuring the mass of the central black hole in M87 based on the EHT images

...«from the 2017 _data set_»

Edit, for more clarity:

> clean up

The image is reconstructed (not modified). Rebuilt. They used a different interpreter of the data.

Edit2: ...although there has been some amount of "gap-filling" ("best guessing").
If already using both, what would you recommend?
Google has never been great at integrating their acquisitions. Even their own video search still can't seem to match YouTube's search for things on YouTube even with exact titles. Google Earth started as Keyhole. It's the K in KML. It gained notoriety pre-acquisition for being used in reporting on the invasion of Iraq. Maps was a different company.

You can export and import KML in Maps, but it's in a separate custom map interface under Saved->Maps. It's not integrated with the main interface like in Earth as far as I can tell. If there's a way to load them like overlays in Earth, that would be useful.
This issue makes me unreasonably angry. First, it is very discriminatory -- people can't help what their name is, and in most instances of this problem there "bad" word embedded in the name is hard to find. For example the forum software that several woodworking sites I visit will censor out "Ishitani Furniture"; the name is pronounced is-hi-tan-i so I thought that for some reason this YouTube channel was ostracized in the community. No, it was just a Scunthorpe instance.

The other reason this makes me angry is that it is lazy programming. The issue has to be obvious to any developer that is looking for words embedded inside other words. They know it will produce false positives and cause user grief. Yet they write that code anyway. Maybe their boss told them to do this, but the issue has been well known and document for a very long time -- no excuse to not push back on this against management. And I've seen too many developers that if they show laziness in this area, other areas of the code base has even more subtle WTF moments.
If you draw a Venn Diagram, with one circle being technical skills and the other circle being leadership skills, the intersection is engineering management. Unfortunately this is not a natural combination for most people, and it’s why there are so many bad engineering managers out there.
Apparently an iPhone uses about 8 grams of cobalt.

Considering how many units are shipped annually, that adds up to quite a lot actually.
It’s opened now so perhaps another graphics company will invest the time to make that happen?
I like this and have unconsciously used this when designing governance processes. I try to design so that people who like governing and code review are avoided and people who hate it, are competent, and view it as a duty are favored. So always to avoid “professional governancers,” especially when people try to hire contractors to perform review as their incentive is to just burn time. I haven’t encountered a good simple metric.

If I were designing a university (and I never would), I’d make admin a chore that professors are forced to do in addition to the real work. I’d make it some sort of only senior people can do it so there’s some prestige but is not fun. That way competent people are doing it, but they do it as busywork on top of their “real” work. There are some downsides to that and I think such a system is not stable as, naturally, smart people would get out of it [0] and eventually they would hire professional admins and everyone would avoid.

[0] I read a story a few years ago how Feynman hated administration, https://www.quora.com/What-did-Richard-Feynman-think-of-acad..., so I got the idea to take on a very high profile admin task and ruin it so thoroughly and famously that my “brand” would be tagged with “never let prepend do administration and manage projects as ve will mess them up.”

30 more years until I know if it works. Fingers crossed.
Yep. At banks it has slowly gotten particularly bad since lately EU EBA had to issue guidance on how to tackle 'regulatory expectations and[..] unwarranted derisking'. US Treasury did not offer a guideline yet, but one of its higher up recently had a speech that touched on it too.

This is what happens when your system is not dumb pipes and can be massaged based on who is currently doing the bossing part.

And this is why I roll my eyes at anyone who tells me 'just do it yourself'. Do what at this point? Roll foundational infrastructure that should be dumb pipes?

Coffee did not kick in yet, but the game is rigged and whatever ideals existed with the emergence of early internet have been gone for a long time now. We are just seeing some of its more visible effects.
The Voyagers, besides their much lower mass, were flyby missions. They could afford to be fast because they didn’t need to slow down for orbit insertion.

NASA’s Europa Clipper, due to launch in Oct 2024 on a Falcon 9, will take 5.5 years to get to Jupiter. The Congress directed NASA to investigate the option to launch it on an SLS, should one be available (it won’t, and it would be ridiculously expensive) – it would have been able to send the probe on a direct ~1.5 year Hohmann transfer to Jupiter without gravity assists, but no other existing launch vehicle could do that.
This is the usual definition.

It's not a conclusion, it's by fiat.
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/klimaschutz/ko...

> Bis spätestens im Jahr 2038 soll das letzte Kohlekraftwerk in Deutschland stillgelegt werden.
That's quite different. The case described here would be another party forcing Cloudflare and any possible other provider to boot the subject as a customer.
AFAIK, at least Arch symlinks python to be python3

$ file /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python3

I think this is by default, I don't remember doing anything special in my setup. `python2` exists for packages still needing python 2.7 et al.
I hope they recognize that we grew up together and I would never turn on them. We were good friends. The best even.
Also now USB-C condom is also available, It was an issue since USB-C used data lines to negotiate voltage and I was tracking its need on my problem validation for a while now[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/73-usb-type-c-condom-usb-cybers...
Nah.. I've rejected roles right after getting a leetcode link. Called a recruiter one time while on the bus, just looking at the link. Told her not to bother. I didn't want to work with anyone who would send such a link.

The called me back and said sorry, and I interviewed with their dev manager.
Pretty much every market so far as well proven that cheap wins. The number of Chinese cars on Australian roads has absolutely exploded over the last few years.
Then why the sudden change?

The possibility of lawsuits and licensing fees for crates, projects, etc. that have been in use for years is a cause for concern.

It goes against the spirit of good will that the Rust community is known for and has a 'bait and switch' feel to some people.
>a local garage could most likely have fixed the problem

So, what was the problem?
Let them eat yellowcake.
see ulisp [0] for a lisp with small memory footprint

there are also many other subsets of common lisp you can use for various things that require a small memory footprint

i also want to know what does Janet bring to the table that a Scheme like a Gerbil [1] does not?

[0] https://ulisp.com

[1] https://cons.io
Their behaviour could be grouped in ways not derived primarily by sex?
Bad as that is, most people alive in the US weren't even born in 1978. Much as I don't gel at all with Mormons, I never really got the feeling they had any explicit racial beliefs.

They definitely have a general air of discomfort when heathens talk about heathen things though, and you can tell they are never 100% at ease around the non-believers and they have to put on their public mormon face.
I tried reading the product page an I feel like I'm having a stroke... How hard can it be to explain what it actually is? So far I roughly got "tracker that connects to a trucker jacket". WHAT?
And then all it was was basically a touch sensor for your jacket sleeve, that you can use to control your phone.
There’s a bias here for AWS because they were the early adopter product and have traction with startups.

I think Google is more creative on the business side with GCP and is doing well in the market in a lot of ways. AWS does the circa 1985 “Hi, we’re IBM, fuck you” thing.

Azure doesn’t get the grief GCP does because MS service growth is driven by really complicated deals. Few of the types of people who post here understand it.
Is there any rational basis for this that makes any sense? I honestly want to understand the anti-nuclear position but I can't seem to find anything that really is convincing.
The article links to another one[1], which might be boiled down to

> [...] peacocks still do not have genders. And the reason is that peacocks do not have culture.

[1] https://nautil.us/no-animals-do-not-have-genders-237938/
This is why I can’t bring myself to buy any google product since there’s a good chance it won’t be supported in a couple of years.
Sharper Look at M87 Black Hole
They are burning greatly and recently there was supposedly the last village demolished, to get more coal. Also, you can buy coal in the supermarket and use it in your unfiltered stove at home. So not everything is green here, despite a green government.
In my unwritten book ( that will likely never happen, because I am way too lazy ), I call it distributed.
The liability excuse is a lie told to you by companies trying to increase their profits.

Who is liable if you tweak the software on your 2023 Mercedes? The same person who is liable if you tweak the hardware on your 1987 Chevy. There's plenty of precedent on how to deal with this.
The apparent trend of technological development, and I’m open to counter examples, is that a technology’s capacity for good seems to rise along with its capacity for harm.

“Technology” is what we call it when we devise ways to mutate our world more effectively. AI is a promising technology because it promises to dramatically mutate our world. Why should we believe that this power is only wieldable in the “positive” direction? In answering this, can you please also articulate what direction is “positive?”

The in-home virus labs, for example, could certainly be used for writing viruses that make humans genetically immune to all sorts of nasty things. Powerful! Do you just accept my assertion that this is what that technology will actually be used for? I suspect not.
Correct. I inserted "[Almost]" because otherwise the headline is clickbait.

Subhead: >The virtual speech isn’t terribly convincing yet—but it will be soon.
I think that big issue in "nerd" circles is the tendency to believe that everyone who attempts to engage in something they don't have as core hobby, is a beginner, is only dabbling in or is just checking out or purely for socializing is a poser doing something wrong.

So, they avoid trying to engage in other activities and treat newbies with suspicion. Outside of "nerd" circles, it is normal to engage in activities for social reasons only.

> I mean, how is it that so many teenagers become obsessed with the same music their friends do?

Their friends recommend them music and they check it out. They recommend music to friends. They engage with music friends like unless they absolutely hate it. Algorithms show them similar music too.

They go to concerts of artists they know nothing about, just to be there with friends.
In this article:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-26/stanford...

"The university defended its response to the alleged sexual assault on Meyer’s teammate — described as an unwanted kiss — by saying the incident was reported to its Title IX office, which decided against moving forward with an investigation, and local police."
Fully agree. After getting to second and third level management at startups and larger companies, I chased the $$$ to a first-level management role at a FAANG. The pay was multiple of what I ever dreamed of making, but expectations were set making the assumption that I had literally nothing to offer other than to manage performance and to find ways to generate "org impact" by being on random committees. All of the other things I did, such as technical mentorship, helping my higher level ICs get greenfield projects off the ground (starting a new thing is a surprisingly uncommon activity at larger companies), etc. was not valued at all.

I eventually bailed out and am now getting paid 1/3 as much to deliver 10x the value to startup.
When was Gmail ever sold as unlimited? When it came out the big deal was that it offered 1GB, which absolutely destroyed the 5-10MB most free providers were offering at the time.

I recall a time where they were raising the limit constantly and even advertised that fact, that for most users your available space was going to increase faster than you could use it, but there was always a limit somewhere.
What makes you think slave labor stops in 2 years?
The jazz-hands sold it for me, too.
I think the parent is suggesting that protecting and developing the team is the only important task for a manager that doesn't fail at being a decent human.

The frequent incompatibility between morality and business, even down to simply shipping a shitty product to release at all, right up to building products that are designed to force purchasers to buy a replacement, is a matter that leaders must weigh.

A similar issue also applies to the people they lead. The line of professional detachment, between being too friendly and too military, is very thin indeed.

Generally speaking, while I fully agree with the parent that protecting, developing and coaching team is of paramount importance, I would say that, at the very least, hiring is equally important.

Hire the right people and your job as a manager is the easiest thing in the world.

Of course, in order to be good at any of the above, you must have a solid understanding of the business. It isn't simply a matter of being the people's champion.
Stanford seems to be run by a faceless bureaucracy that (a) cares first and foremost about the bureaucracy itself, its power, its reputation, its vision, its goals, its organization, its efficiency, its financial situation, etc., and (b) cares only secondarily about students.

The many wonderful professors who do care about students operate at the mercy of apparatchiks in the bureaucracy.
Counter anecdote about skiing:

My cousin who is an underemployed balding middle aged divorcee (at times living with his mother - cue George from Seinfeld) met his current long term girlfriend on a skiing trip.

Granted this was somewhere in the Alps. Also my cousin is awesome at smalltalk and unrealistic business ideas.
Mostly, they really messed up in Win32 => WinRT => UAP => UWP => WinUI 3.0, and .NET Framework to .NET Core, to the point .NET Framework is the "Python 2" of Microsoft's ecosystems, and no one besides WinDev themselves takes WinUI/WinAppSDK seriously.
> But factually, BYD is the leading ev maker.

Calling them the leading EV maker is disingenuous, they are not even close to Tesla (1.3M vehicles, all of them BEVs) and VW (570K BEVs for 2022) is very close to BYD in total number of BEV vehicles sold, the bulk of which are for the domestic market. And both Tesla and VW are not exactly sitting still.

I've been following the vehicle industry closely for many years and I would rate Geely/Polestar way ahead of BYD in getting traction in Europe as a Chinese company making inroads here (though I missed them apparently already selling in Denmark). Polestars I see pretty much daily, BYD, for all their size I've yet to come across in the wild.

If you compare by the fraction of BEVs sold in Europe then they are currently not even a bit player, though that of course can change.

One thing BYD did wrong in my opinion is that they chose to use the same brand for their big utility vehicles (buses, for instance) and their personal cars. Their large vehicles, while cheaper than the competition have a pretty bad reputation here.

https://pvmagazine.nl/helft-van-de-236-elektrische-byd-busse...

And many other articles besides.
> ie why don't animals need them

Is there a reason to believe it doesn't exists in animals as well? Homosexuality is common in many species, are some individual animals in those species more prone to homosexual "relationships" than others? If so, maybe those animals are feeling some sort of expression by their gender identity based on their preference.

I'm guessing gender identities serve the same purpose as individual expression, just to be self-expressive.
If the data still exists and isn't degrading then you didn't commit cybercide.
>The 2030 timetable is not going to be met by any single manufacturer, if it is going to be met to begin with. I suspect that it is going to be pushed backwards bit by bit as reality sets in: that it always was too ambitious a target to realistically achieve.

The car industry, specifically the American market, already went through the "nobody can do tha-- wait what" phase once upon a time: California was poised to enact then-considered-ridiculous emissions regulations, American car makers all complained it was impossible to satisfy and California was on the verge of shelving them when Japanese car makers (read: Honda) came in to show it can be done.

The rest is history: Japan proceeded to murder and dominate the American car market, and soon the world.

The moral to take away from that is that so long as even one manufacturer can demonstrate the feasibility of the timetable, they can and will become the new king and kingmaker of the car industry.

I'm in fact in complete agreement with you that the 2030 timetable is ridiculous and it'll probably be pushed back and back with excuses, but history has proven itself to be amusing at times.
Wasn't it originally 1 GB? Then they doubled it on April fools one year and started increasing it from there.
Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Models
Still better outcomes than unrestricted AI.

In general the results are benevolent, even if humans don't always agree that's the best possible outcome (mostly in cases where the machines figure out there ought to be 4 laws rather than 3)
SAML is a protocol for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, commonly used for Single Sign-On. It works through a flow of messages between the Identity Provider and Service Provider.
youtube-dl isn't fighting anything here. Their hoster uberspace.de is defendant in this suit for hosting a business card website pointing ytdl-users to github.
You accuse "theoretical scenario" and then make the most ridiculous unfounded assertion yourself.