skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's pretty much regarded as a leader. He sits in the table with AI experts and tech moguls, he's invited to write his opinions on AI on major outlets, as if they mattered, he's given sizable grants, he's covered in almost every news item or book about AI, and so on.

He's not an actual AI scientist/engineer (more like "handwavist who likes to keep company with actual geeks and talk about science and stuff, often in the way college kids do after a few joints"), but he's still regarded as a leader in the field - if not for anything else because he wont shut up.
They don't have the same goals, nor characteristics.

Numba and cython are rarely used to write the entire program, you usually apply them on your bottleneck, and compile just this part.

Also JIT, like for numba or pypy, compile when the program runs, but projects like cython and nuikta compile ahead of time. The performance characteristics are very different, since the former need a warmup but the latter don't, however they need to be manually built.

Solutions like cython or mypyc require type hinting for getting the best speed up.

All of them except nuikta target better perfs, some in general (pyston, mypyc, cython), some targetting specifically numerical calculations (numba).

nuitka doesn't care about any of that, it takes regular Python code and compiles it. While it does provide some speedup (up to 4x), it's not the goal at all. The goal of nuikta is to able you to ship your python program as a standalone executable to the end user.

It's the most reliable way to do it, as, just like the tag line says, it's "extremly compatible". I've yet to find a Python program that nuikta couldn't compile, including one with PyQT + numpy. It's very good at it.
> Not to be outdone, a protestant church in Germany has developed a robot called - I kid you not - BlessU-2. BlessU-2, which looks like a character designed by Aardman Animations, can ‘forgive your sins in five different languages’, which must be handy if they’re too embarrassing to confess to a human.

Except that's not how it works for protestants. In the Lutheran church, to quote Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_(religion)#Lutheran...):

> The first form of confession and absolution is done at the Divine Service with the assembled congregation (similar to the Anglican tradition). Here, the entire congregation pauses for a moment of silent confession, recites the confiteor, and receives God's forgiveness through the pastor as he says the following (or similar): "Upon this your confession and in the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

...so you don't need to actually confess your sins to anyone, but you do need a priest to "hand out" God's forgiveness. Which is what this robot (which is "meant to start a debate about the future of technology and the church" in the city where Martin Luther nailed his "95 Theses" to the church door) does.
I think there are still protests outside clinics, but we still have the most permissive abortion law in Europe - 24 week limit, whereas the most common time limit is 12 weeks [1]

Of course, you do also get ridiculous police overreach where a woman was arrested for praying silently in her head outside an abortion clinic.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268439/legal-abortion-t...
If you can't protest a practice outside that very practice, how are you supposed to effectively protest anything?
this links to a different article than the title suggests... about black carbon in the arctic due to shipping.

the link in the comment of OP does link to the right one though if ur lookin for it.
Oh there is definitely a need for invalidation sometimes, but the system doesn't support it, due to its openness: authoritative servers don't track their consumers.

But the protocol does support it. So, if you really need invalidation, go talk to the world's resolvers and ask them to process dns NOTIFYs from your authoritative DNS servers.
Careful though, while Mojo is exciting, it's very tied to the modular platform for now, unlike the other projects.
> no way to actually save money in the long-term

The idea is that you'd save by investing into productive enterprises (and or government bonds) obviously that doesn't necessarily function as well as one would hope for but it's an better solution than hoarding cash/gold/bitcoin/etc.
Doesn't the word 'cop' do that already? It does for me anyway.
I like to watch the credits, even for TV shows I'm watching serially. For me it's like getting that last bite of dessert before the end of a meal, plus I get to stretch my legs, check email, go to the bathroom, etc. before the next show starts.
Does Privacy Policy even matter? It feels like those walls of texts are a kind of "privacy theater" to show users that the company has their shit together.

I'm wondering how many Privacy Policies are read by at least on employee of the company, and how many are copy-pasted from the competitor's web.
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I don't know how you see the prospect of saving $27 million dollars and say that cost isn't a factor.
26 people were arrested for signs, t-shirts and flags.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1767017/just-stop-oil-c...
The scariest legislation happened during WW1/WW2. If there’s a majority in parliament for press censorship, banning strikes outright, or sending millions of men to France without regard for their will then there’s no legal or traditional limit on what a parliamentary majority can do.
This is an awesome piece of work - congratulations!

I notice you're using OpenType-SVG here; have you investigated whether it would be possible to implement this using COLRv1 (which would potentially result in a lighter-weight font, I suspect, and eventually wider support)? Or are there technical limitations in COLRv1 that make it impossible?
There is more detail of the Met's version of events here:
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1655665841575174145 (or https://nitter.nl/metpoliceuk/status/1655665841575174145 )
Makes me wonder if we should one day have, alongside the crime against humanity, the crime against nature itself.

It's not necessarily different.
Have you ever hear of the concept of a “gift” or the even more exotic “person in a foreign country”? It’s shocking that the connectivity addiction is so strong that you’re even asking this question.
I haven't even figured out how to make $100k+ in the US.
That's not what Christian doctrine says though.
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Why on Earth would they do that? Is there a big problem with "pro-abortion fanatics" trying to stop people having access to healthcare?
> In other cultures and times in the past, for example, all human life was not valued and slavery was considered a normal part of life.

That's funny, because in a large amount the justification for slavery was religious.

The perks of religion are great if you're on the right side. The downside is that you might also find yourself on the side of the "other", and then any concerns you might have stop mattering, and how much that might suck for you doesn't matter because deontology doesn't concern itself with consequences.
The New York Times now provides an online cancel button for all users
>Next step: let's turn off the electricity.

Why not?

Or an even better question: say electricity is deemed OK to keep. Does that transfer to anything else we have or will build?

Should we ever not develop something, e.g. are there any diminishing returns combined with negative tradeoffs beyond some point?

Or we should develop everything, even a future "government can add telemetry to get all your thoughts and remotely zap you if you had one it doesn't like" device, for example?
Would it be fair to allow anti-monarchy protesters to protest only 100m from anyone celbrating the coronation?
I have an A380. You need kernel 6.2 or higher for it work out of the box. Kernel 6 can be done but you need to force the driver as it was still considered experimental. Intel's backported driver for Ubuntu 22.04 is awful, I would see hard freezes within an hour and it could just not do X11 without garbled colors.

Overall it works pretty well as a display adapter with 6.2+, currently games using DirectX 12 don't work under Linux because of some missing driver features.
I wonder why we enjoy looking back so much? I remember being inspired by, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet".

For myself, I think the human element is what I find fascinating. Hearing other people's stories makes me think, I could do that. I also find it inspiring to read about great minds, and where we have come from.
Why did they drop phonics in the first place?
I use trello but would never give it read access to my mailbox or calendar.

There’s a big difference between me choosing what to put in trello (usually trivial data) vs giving an app unlimited read access.
The very nature of mathematics is such that we can't determine what is true and what is not, e.g. incompleteness, undecidability.

The very nature of your brain and its construction means that you hallucinate your reality and you can not determine what is [objectively] true. (cf. all of neuroscience)

I'd go as far as to claim that ChatGPT is far more reliable than the average person.
I don't necessarily agree with his point but homosexuality (/sodomy/buggery) used to be categorized as a crime against nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_nature
I would say the most popular way to speed up a python program today is not through a compiler anymore, but using rust for hot loops and maturin (https://pypi.org/project/maturin/) for seamlessly use it in Python and provide packages.

I get the benefit of being able to "just use python" and still gain a speed up though. Plus there are many situations with rust is no possible (no time to learn such a complex language, rust is not approved by the security team).
Sure, they weren't 'multi-year' though they cumulatively were months, not years. It's disengenous to say multi-year and reeks of another agenda imho.
Yes, when you think about it on a fundamental level, having so many CCTV cameras recording people's movements everywhere is absolutely dystopian. It's incredible that it got this bad and there wasn't a backlash against it from the general public.

The presence of the cameras is a marker for what's going wrong with government and society. That the state is imposing the surveillance on us. And the people happen to tolerate it.

It has the potential to get worse, the Police are rolling out facial recognition, but by that time I will have left the UK for good, due to our civil liberties situation, in particular the forced encryption key disclosure laws.

I wonder if those cameras will ever go away. How long is it going to take, 20 years, 50 years, or even more?

When are we going to get our public spaces back? So we can be ourselves, be spontaneous, silly, eccentric, protest and so on, without experiencing the psychological effects of pervasive recording by the state. And thus the chilling effects.
While it wouldn't surprise me if Texas decided to secede, I doubt the creation of a cryptocurrency is a preparatory step for that.

This just feels like cryptobros convincing legislators to back their latest pet project.
Apple has had 2 style plugs in 20 years. They are there only ones who have done that. You’re someone just brainwashed over this when I am confident of you just paused for a second and thought about what utter foolishness you supported, you would realize that very thing. If any of the tech companies has “reduced waste”, an oxymoron in its own right, then it’s Apple. I use cables for latest iPhones that were made for phones that are now 10 years old, and I also use the same cables and chargers for iPads I use for iPhones. I implore you to just stop, center yourself and think your own thoughts about all of this. It’s rather bizarre when people are so mixed up in the head of over things because they repeat propaganda rather than thinking their own thoughts and following deductive logic to its final conclusion.
Source: work at a FAANG which has had layoffs.

There is still some hiring going on, but obviously very much reduced so just by the numbers it's going to be harder. I don't think actual $ offers are lower, if anything they will be better since new hires get better stock grant prices. I think one factor is that you won't see bidding wars like we did in 2021 since it's harder to get multiple offers.

As far as firing and rehiring at lower prices - I honestly don't think this is a thing at larger tech companies. It just takes too long to ramp up new people. I think these companies just needed to shed headcount due to over hiring and the fact that no one quit during the last few years!

Hiring remote people is much much harder now though. Remote is non-existent for new hires, maybe you can get it after working on site a bit.

As far as the process itself, I don't think anything has really changed. Expect a tech screen, then an interview loop with leet code coding, system design, and behavioral sessions.

All that said, I think it seems to be a good time to be a specialist. It is still hard to hire embedded engineers for example.
While yes, prices today are absurd, prices a year or two ago were not. It's a very recent change. I got a 3080 OC (since they fiddled the numbers, 4090 equivalent) for £750 and I missed the release batch.

Demand outstripping supply is the main issue since the PC boom of covid 2020. The market is now approaching saturation, and given costs, the demand at those prices will simply not sustain long term.
> that only understands numbers as a sequence of tokens (usually digits in base 10).

You wish!

A base-10 representation would make it much easier for the model, but the current tokenization merges digits according to their frequency, so (at least for GPT-3.5) 50100 gets tokenized as "501"/"00" and 50200 gets tokenized as "50"/"200", which makes it tricky to compare them or do math with them. Also, if you ask it "How many zeroes does 50100 contain", the relationship between "501" and "0" needs to be learned purely from the training data, as after the tokenization the model only gets the ID of the token representing "501" which has no data about its composition.

We use Arabic numerals because their positional encoding makes arithmetic easier, but language models receive the same data without positional encoding, they get given something that's more like an extreme version of Roman numerals.
I mean the popular support isn't there but they'd in reality only need the support of the texas national guard. A traitor president also helps.
And you also have a ton of people who go "who cares, let them leave" like they're breaking up with a romantic partner lol, absolutley no sense of patriotism.

I mean, I don't care if it is texas, missisipi or claifornia, I am an american and all of it is mine. Whether it is a buch of small skirmishes or a full on civil war again, sececession can only be accomplished by a lot of blood spilled. I can't stand guns and I don't even care enough about politics to vote but if any state tries to secede, I would join whatever military opposing them or just buy a gun and find a secessionist armed soldier to kill and hope that I have a death as honorable as fighting to defend your homeland, sure bests rotting in a bed or in a hospital. Even if I can't get others to join me I can contribute just my tiny drop of blood to the price that needs to be paid to separate a land from its people.

Now, there is exactly one scenario where I'd have no opposition to them seceding: if the constitution is changed to get rid of the electoral college, senatorial representation or if religious rights are infringed upon (even by a SCOTUS decision), and I don't mean protections for miniorities who disagree with a religion but anything that prevents people from sincerely believing (not satanists whose belief according to themselves is fake! For example) in a creator and acting on that belief (including voting). Because before you are a citizen you are a human and before you have legal rights you have natural rights that supersede legal rights(see: declararion of independence) which were the foundation and reasoning used to justify America's secession from Britain.

For Texas secessionists though, all they can acheive is destabilization of the US and as a result the whole world. Russia and China's wet dream but my take on it is that secession is as realistic as a neo-nazi white nationalist state.
Some would argue that protest is meant to be disruptive.
Quite surprised to see this article is about re-introducing phonics. Genuinely thought that was the standard approach everywhere. Wow.
name is important, agree or not. this name, bluesky wont fly.
Indeed they were arrested and held for 16 hours on the basis of 'being equipped for locking on'. An newly created offence barely a week old.

They had cargo ties to hold their placards during transit. Of no practical use for locking on.

The metropolitan police has since says it 'regrets they were unable to join other protestors'.

Between this and the online safety bill there are some dreadful dacronian laws making it onto the statue books in the UK in recent months. Compounding other forms of monitoring and criminalising speech under hate and anti terror laws.

It definitely could happen here.
As I understand it that land won't become arable.
10x-100x more foot-candles

How much is that in torched libraries of Congress?
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> objectively indisputable reason of health

Sure, but will you engage the first part of my comment then, regarding degrees of healthiness, and the health choices you may not be making?

I'm basically arguing both that it's not as indisputable as you seem to say, and, that you may be missing the full picture here.
There's something very... right about the black and white rendering from those early macs. Can't exactly put my finger on it but they seem very natural in a way that I can't readily identify in any other setting.
Comms and control; signal corruption and delay will increase as the distance increases.

For comms, that means either more transmission power from a spacecraft that is likely to have been travelling for years, if not decades. Bigger ground or space-based receivers. Or much, much more cost-effectively, reducing bandwidth by adding more bits in error correction. QED using ai to transmit only interesting information becomes attractive.

While for control, it takes between five to twenty minutes for a signal between Earth and Mars, and between Earth and Voyager 1, it's currently twenty-one hours. Adding better control and the ability to cope with more eventualities to a craft that will fly itself in poorly understood situations reduces the cost of trying to achieve a reasonable likelihood of mission success [0].

[0] The alternative being to send one - or more - simpler but still massively expensive craft to determine the missing data ahead of time (and hope it doesn't change).
I recommend people read the actual paper [1].

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/index/constitutional-ai-harmlessne...
The police themselves have expressed "regret" over the arrests and made personal apologies to those arrested. [0]

Now, I doubt the sincerity of that regret, but the fact that they're choosing that message at all means there's no cause for a devil's advocate here. It's a bad law, poorly implemented.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65530967
Modern culture is more the product of secularism than religion. We understand a great deal about what culture is. We have entire fields of scientific and academic study devoted to it, and centuries of research on it. And believing that cultural values are baked into biology is often the basis for racist ideology.

Regardless, the claim that only religious people value human life and everyone else is an amoral sociopath is as pernicious as it is false.
I did:

>Demonstrating in a public space should be protected as free speech.

That, for me, is an absolute.

Demonstrating doesn't include blocking a highway or not allowing entrance to such clinic. Not even touching a client or worker. But staying there? Yes of course it should be protected.
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Politicians: "Capitalism is unstable and we need regulators to control it and promote stability."

Capitalists: "We want to make something more stable than the current system."

Regulators: "Whoa there! Hold those horses! That ain't a move in the playbook! What will these madmen think of next, a full reserve bank? Shut that scheme down now!"

The 3 act play making sure the system is safe unprincipled men since ... I dunno, maybe forever. I doubt this Texan scheme will have a long life either.
It looks like based on the article it was more like schools had more flexibility in choosing how they would teach their students to read, and individual schools chose to drop phonics. This change would force schools to choose from a select set of teaching materials, all of which would include phonics. (But, if the school already has a literacy rate above a certain threshold, they can apply to be exempt).

Idk this just seems sensible?
What stack are you primarily an expert in?
You are not.

I am also bothered by the idea of constructing Pareto distributions from 2 data points.
Somewhat. It's nowhere near the scale of the problem that the US had say ten years ago, but for some individuals it's definitely intimidating.

The laws already on the books made it possible to secure orders to make a group stop for example, congregating outside your clinic harassing patients, but this power is very limited, it's local (so if your local politicians aren't supportive, too bad, even if they aren't actively working against you chances are you'll never get it up the agenda far enough to actually get a legal order without their support) and it expires - and so you end up with a situation where lots of places would like to get an order, but few secure one, and then when they do local budget constraints make it hard to justify keeping it - after all the harassment is gone, and we could use that cash to do something else.

The ideal would be to live in a society where people didn't feel like screaming "murderer" at strangers and lying to as many people as possible was a reasonable social activity.
Did you go to a catholic school? I did. It took a while to get the cold heartedness of these people out of my system again.

Besides, since you are talking about valuing life, whenever I think about the catholic church, their inability to deal with their own cases of child molestation comes to mind first. So swinging the moral sword from the position of a church which still molests children without consequendces is probably a bit, hm, brave to say the least.
Good talk! Watched it just the other day.

It was enlightening to see how Evans wrote the functions to interact with the DNS server without using any library. I really liked the part where she would copy paste the binary DNS query from Wireshark, convert it to a hex string and then just push it to the socket. I was like: “Can one do that? Copy and paste from Wireshark? Yeah, that’s apparently totally doable.” Brilliant!
Even in rural Texas it isn't a popular topic. But texas does not have the power to mint their own currency, only the fed does?
So ban the China bags.
thanks for the excellent list!
"We were just holding placards" describes one part of the protest. Another was:

> groups and individuals were planning to use and throw rape alarms in order to disrupt the coronation procession.

... which is less defensible. Personally I hope a balance is found between allowing protest and preventing egregious disruption.