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> As a PhD, I now believe that pursuing a career in science is an enormously selfish and entitled life choice for anyone who doesn't have a trust fund.

Focusing specifically on the the word "selfish"--isn't academia about dedicating yourself to scientific discovery? That dedication may require a sacrifice from your spouse, but it should benefit humanity at large.

That may or may not be a sacrifice your family is willing to make--and it's a shame that anyone is required to make it--but it's not selfish!
I think the idea is that Russia fosters interdependence on their natural resources as a way to limit retaliation for territorial expansion. It worked with Georgia and Crimea, but they may have miscalculated with Ukraine.
And what is the scientific method, in your mind, exactly?
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Does effort exerted and thus a tensed muscle not provide stability?
I get the same error on Iphone/Safari
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33668004
> but it's happened when technical problems were found in legislation after it had been passed by Parliament but before going to the GG, so giving time to pass amended legislation.

At least in Australia (don’t know how they do things in Canada), it is standard practice nowadays to put a clause in all Acts saying the Act enters into force on a date to be proclaimed by the GG. So, in the event that an Act is found to be unworkable after passage by Parliament, it isn’t necessary for the GG to refuse/withhold/reserve assent. Instead, the GG assents to it, and it goes on the statute book. But the ministers never advise the GG to issue a proclamation setting an entry into force date, so it never enters into force - like if you commit code guarded by a feature flag, release that code to production, but then decide to never turn the feature flag on so it never actually runs. Parliament can then pass an amending Act fixing the flaws, and the GG can proclaim an entry into force date after assenting to the amending Act.

It has happened before that Parliament passes some controversial Act, GG assents to it, Cabinet decides to hold off entry into force pending some review, Cabinet decides to drop the whole idea, Parliament passes a repeal Act, GG assents to that, Act was enacted then repealed without ever entering into force-like merging a PR to remove code for a feature for which the feature flag was never enabled in production.

An entry-into-force proclamation isn’t quite like a feature flag though, in that you can choose when and if to turn it on, but once you turn it on there is no way to turn it back off. It can however be selective - you can make different sections of the Act enter into force at different times, and some sections may never be brought into force at all
I feel like you're not allowed to make up phrases like "E-Mail-Caste", not explain what it means, then get mad when others don't perfectly understand it...
What do you mean by "understanding the Spectrogram"? The graph itself is straightforward: x axis is time, y axis is frequency. The intensity of each pixel represents the intensity of a certain frequency component and a certain point in time.

If you're referring to generating spectrograms with Fourier transforms, you will need some math background to properly do the calculation by hand. It largely just boils down to "find the amount of each frequency over time"

Last question, if this is the premise your work, shouldn't you know about it already?
I am sorry if this is insensitive, but thank God it is difficult to sue a doctor for misdiagnosis. If it were easy, there would be hardly any doctors in the world. Also, maybe I come from a different position but I get a second consult for just about any non-minor ailment I have ever had. Instead of suing doctors, "get second opinion" should be the thing! Every doctor tries their best, its years of toil and labor, and they can make mistakes. Please do not leave such important decision in the hand of one person under the assumption that they are an expert. I understand if you do not have money or time, but the consequence of a misdiagnosis are going to hurt you.
Cell phones 15 years ago still leaked location information via the cell tower they connected to, didn’t they? This doesn’t seem like a development from the past 15 years like you’re saying.

So if you were privacy conscious to that extent 15 years ago, you didn’t carry a cell phone. That didn’t change.
There is an optimal product of price * quantity sold they can’t exceed without something changing on the buyers’ end.
> It may be possible that there is no English sentence you can utter about the network which is both explanatory and fully accurate.

reminds me of: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."
>To me the lesson was maybe cook outdoors. Or figure out how to plumb a vent through an upstairs living space attic and roof to vent outside.

Huh? Why would this be necessary? Just use the range hood that should already be installed and should vent to the outside. Are these not required in your country for some strange reason?
I would suggest that a lot of past German attempts to be "mindblowingly progressive" have turned out to be disasters. Maybe they should learn from it.
Why should we not try to get the population to behave a certain way? The alternative is a society full of people who behave antisocially, acting as if only their needs matter. It’s hard to say whether a concerted effort to make people more invested in the civic good will be effective, but throwing our hands in the air will undoubtedly have the intended effect.
I actually think you've put your finger on the actual problem. Sometimes these obsessions lead to success, because obsession and persistence can be the same.

But let's take the last year, sanctions policies that lead them to trade direct resource imports from Russia to having the same imports but paying premium through brokers like Morocco, India and Chinese LNG(all coming from Russia). Let's remember what the BASF CEO said before it escalated.[1]

A lot of people in Germany were begging the government to postpone the shutdown of the remaining power plants until they have replacements, but the ideological Greens just charged ahead replacing Nuclear with Coal to achieve their ideological goal of removing nuclear. They have also been at the forefront of pushing legislation at an EU level to block nuclear in various forms.[2][3]

I've seen these obsessions in various other parts of society. I've had people stand behind me waiting telling me they could not pass anywhere but where I am even though they could just take a turn around me. I've personally experienced and heard from multiple people at the CCC that their Math teachers would punish them for achieving a result with a different technique than what the teacher taught them.

[1] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/basf-chef...

[2] https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2022/01/04/germany-needs-to-st...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-pushes-nucle...
Funny he pins Springsteen’s success on his lyricism when he was using a rhyming dictionary to write basically all of Welcome to Asbury Park and was obviously aping the blue collar poeticism of Bob Dylan.

I love Springsteen, but it’s mostly because the E Street band is absolutely bonkers good.
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Heroku posted an incident on their status page about 20 minutes ago. https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2539

According to the timeline on their own incident, it took them 71 minutes to notice the issue and acknowledge it publicly.
Obviously debatable, but this seems wrong. It could easily be that we can't figure out how to do something but when presented with a solution understand it. Many people understand public private key cryptography but could never in a million years come up with it. Same for much of physics, a lot of math etc. As for the sheer complexity of millions/billions of parameters - people can explain and understand molecular dynamics simulations perfectly well. They can't use a small number of words to explain a specific configuration, but it's explainable.
Do you consider Fukushima also not a modern design? Do you then also follow that old reactors should be shut down? (8 reactors of the same type as Chernobyl are still running for instance)
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I wonder if Bard can write a show tune about how you regret what you built, but you're taking the money anyway.
> Part of my whole point is that LLMs are to NLPs as rockets are to airplanes.

Yes it is deep learning applied to NLP. Makes the old designs obsolete

> the data is text

It is not randomly generated text. There are patterns in that text. It was trained to model the semantics or "meaning" in the text. There is a structure in the text which the machine has recognized.

It automatically learned a model of many concepts without any of those concepts being explicitly programmed into it. That's the entire point of machine learning.

> But not adequately, IMO.

It is adequate for some things and not adequate for other things.

It seems that all you are saying is that GPT is not AGI and doesn't have human level of understanding and reasoning. No one disagrees with that.
You write this as if corporations don't lobby on behalf of their owners, and as if 'trying to sell you something' couldn't be any more dystopian than someone at a store counter greeting a prospective customer.

Corporations lobby governments to provide security, in part because some corporations want to sell security products and governments (at multiple different scales) are the biggest customers for that. Those who do not themselves sell security sometimes demand security not so much for the safety of customers and staff as for the customers that they would like to have. Security is big business. Before dismissing this as some marginal phenomenon, you might want to reflect on the proportion of the economy that revolves around security. Though a few years old now, this article raises a number of surprising questions that I've yet to see effectively answered: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Lo...
I was amused by her example of poetry needing interpretability, given that we already know why and did when they did that research: https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes
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Elemental mercury really isn't as bad as people think when they hear "mercury". On its own, there's less interaction with biochemical processes. You can dip your hand in a bucket of the stuff and nothing will happen.

Once it does get bound up in an organic compound, however, everything changes. In particular, methyl and dimethylmercury are, in every way, the opposite. It readily absorbs through your skin, causes genetic mutations in cells, interferes with the immune system, and crosses the blood-brain barrier while acting as a neurotoxin.

Lest you think that is bad enough, it also happily passes through both latex and pvc gloves, and has a high enough vapor pressure that you don't ever want to open a jar of the stuff unless it is in an active fume hood. If you happen to notice that it has a sweet smell, you need to head straight to a hospital.

Should you get even as little as 0.1ml in your body, it will linger, slowly working its way around, potentially delaying symptoms for months, at which point it is too late for any treatment to be effective, and even that small of a dose will be fatal.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
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At the time of Theranos's debunking there were some posts to HN showing that it was mathematically implausible. Something about signal to noise and specificity at extremely small molecule counts. I don't know how to find it, but I assume somebody in the hacker news hivemind knows what I mean and can dig up the link.
This makes the most sense when there is an oversupply of arrows for a given bullseye.

If, otoh, there is a massive shortage of something and you can supply that thing, no need to reinvent the wheel.
Sure you can keep moving goal posts. Of course it doesn't make sense to bind a C production code to a C package (SUNDIALS) through Julia. But if you're asking who is using Julia bindings to SUNDIALS as part of a real case, one case that comes to mind is the Sienna power systems dynamics stuff out of NREL (https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sienna.html). If you look inside of the dynamics part of Sienna you can clearly see IDA being used (https://github.com/NREL-Sienna/PowerSimulationsDynamics.jl). IIRC at a recent Julia meetup in the Benelux region kite model simulations also used it for the same reasons (https://github.com/aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl) which of course is pointing to the open source code organization for Aenarete (http://aenarete.eu/).

The way to find other use cases is to look through the citations. Generally there will be a pattern to it. For cases which reduce to (mass matrix) ODEs FBDF generally (but not always) outperforms CVODE's BDF these days, so those cases have mostly converted over to using the pure Julia solvers. This includes not just ODEs but also other DAEs which are defined through ModelingToolkit, as the index reduction process generates ODEs and generally the ODE form ends up more efficient than using the original DAE form (though not always of course). It's in the fully implicit DAE form that the documentation (as of May 1st 2023, starting somewhere back in 2017 according to the historical docs) recommends using Sundials' IDA as the most efficient method for that case (https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/solvers/dae_solve/) (yes, the docs recommend non-Julia solvers when appropriate. There's more than a few of such recommendations in the documentation). Power systems is such a case with Index-1 DAEs written in the fully implicit form which are difficult in many instances to write in mass matrix form and not already written in ModelingToolkit, hence its use of IDA here. By the same reasoning you can also search around in the citations for other use cases of IDA.
You sound like someone who's never asked GPT-4 to write a rap battle about $SUBJECT in the style of $CELEBRITY where every word starts with $LETTER..
Depends on the Neil Young album.
The reason I know that there's a movement to teach that the Earth is flat is because the mainstream media covered it.
Too much to ask for a README in the repo, or some kind of explanation or documentation?
German engineering has a very good marketing department.
Serious answer, because in order for federal law to supersede state law they have to make their own law that "occupies the field" [1] or explicitly says in the law that it preempts state law.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/occupy_the_field
You're shocked to find out that pride in craftsmanship exists?
Not to mention literal dead drops with encrypted messages on thumb drives. Etc.
Switzerland profiting from wars by remaining "neutral" is pacifist?
About 200 Germans died in the floods last year - far more than those who died from the cold. And climate change increased both the likeliness and the intensity of the rains.

So no, this isn't something rich people will face in 50 years. It's something everyone faces today.
And no one is suggesting we build Soviet RBMK reactors. Would you point to the Ford Pinto to claim that we should go back to the horse and buggy?
It has always been illegal for a foreign state actor to surveil me

This elicited a chuckle, though probably not for the reasons you intended.
Yep, that's pretty much how we manage.

In normal use we rely on Starlink for bulk data and a slower fixed LTE connection for low latency/jitter. Once the power's been out a couple of hours... we fall back on the Starlink. If we need to call anyone, we use wifi calling through my cell provider over the Starlink. I have a backup set of Starlink hardware already linked to my account.

I've got a cheap (~$1k) 10kW generator. Pretty much a necessity since we need power for our water/sewer to work.

Generator can run on gas or propane. We've got a couple big propane tanks to provide fuel for heating/hot water/cooking/etc. So we've got that as an option, or generally about 150L of gas on hand. Keeping the generator running all day so I can work and on-and-off through the evening, 150L lasts us about a week.

We had no power for eight days and a lot of people were having to run down to the fire station for drinkable water. The town hall opened up so people could come recharge their phones and get a hot cup of coffee. A lot of people missed out on hot meals and showers.

I didn't miss a day of (remote) work. We had hot showers, coffee in the morning, hot meals, and generally besides the dull drone of the generator outside during the day and the absolute eerie silence at night when I turned the generator off... nothing was really all that different.
Damus is great but Amethyst is also great already on Android
Read up on jus ad bellum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_ad_bellum
Is safety only about death? Why are deaths in uranium mining always ignored? How much preventative measures have been and are still being taken throughout Europe because of Chernobyl and how much damage did that do?
Why do nuclear proponents only compare with coal, never with renewables?
Yes, but also your original question was about how much people care, so questioning the amount of progress is at best a weird tangent.
Every now and then one will get on my chimney. It will peck on something metal and the sound echos down and comes out my fireplace. It makes a really cool sound.
I've thought about pattern matching NN weights against known graph structures. I'd imagine, for example, that decision trees emerge at some point in GPT.

The real problem IMO is our ability to represent natural concepts as such graphs. Is love, for example, a DFA? Can we search for its isomorphism?
> "We need to deter criminals from finding Palo Alto to be a nice, easy target," Burke said during Monday's hearing. "That needs to stop."

This is like peak 2023. You create a little bubble where the cost to commit a crime increases slightly, so some percentage of criminals just go somewhere else, maybe even the next neighborhood over, where the risk is lower. Meanwhile, nobody is willing to fund the support services necessary to actually reduce the incentive to commit a crime, so crime numbers stay the same or go up, but they happen to someone else instead of you. Great stuff. If they install some spikes on their park benches homelessness will be solved too! And all with just a few dollars and a 1 hour board meeting. Incredible.

Eventually everyone decides to play the arms race (but mom they have cameras the next town over) and we get the surveillance dystopia that nobody really wanted. Anyone who tries to fix it now has to face "but now randos are stealing muh catalytic converters" as an argument against taking down the cameras. And meanwhile, people still don't have food, shelter, medical care, or a support network. But we spent all that money. It just blows my mind and no I'm not going to run for office to fix it. Sorry.
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It would be a useful contribution to explain what you think the material differences are, rather than referencing them through innuendo, as if anyone knows what you mean.
> longer than like 100 years

I'm not sure we're on the same page, there's the PRC, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam.... not to mention the Stalin of it all.

Much of that history is well beyond 1920.
> it doesn’t make sense anymore in the age of internet. It has a huge cost for business and thus people and make us disadvantaged vs english speaking.

A French Canadian expat here in the bay told me once "if our language is to die out, at least I'll make sure my kids are free".

I think had '95 turned out differently, some VCs here would be a little bit poorer, but the Republic of Quebec would have kept a stellar engineer.

> As an example I cannot send my kids to english school (because I went to french school) but my neighbor that is as french as me can.

Sounds these laws needs tightening. No reasons to operate two parallel school districts.
That sounds like a good idea. I didnt even know they existed in areas where there are cities.
How is capitalism an extreme ideology? Wouldn't something like a technocracy be the extreme of that spectrum?