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> as in China, Korea, Japan, or France. Are the “winners” actually better in some useful way or is it simply a sorting hat that bins students into institutions with good/mediocre/bad networks?

I can't speak to the latter three, but for China it's in large part whether you tested into a good middle school (at age 10 or whatever), and then tested into a good high school, and then spent a sufficient amount of time (read: 20hrs/day) cramming in the ~year before the exam supported by your good high school.

Or have rich parents to pay your way into the good high school, or pay for top end tutoring / cram school if that route of corruption isn't available.

Or I guess live in an area where the gap between <City Name> #1 High School and the next one down isn't as stark
Organizing and demanding pay collectively seems to help in negotiations, so good for them for taking this approach. It's not like Stanford can move its grad programs to Mexico like a US car maker and its factories.
What of the fluorine in it? Blank tea has more than 6x as much as fluorinated water, with white and green tea having the least.
Likely related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542267
Yeah I don't get this either. I can't believe a $10 angle grinder from harbor freight wouldn't do the job.
By the time you get a fab up and running, the AI fad will be long dead.
I guess I never conceptually got onboard with the idea that hashing down more entropy is better than pulling the exact amount of good entropy. But I lack the formal qualifications to argue as much (or knowledge of a proof to the contrary). I know we like to be paranoid when things make us uncomfortable.
My point is that, while I agree with the issue identified, it's not clear how we're mitigating anything here. Our day is replete with moving the problem in lieu of retiring the problem.
Got it, thanks.

But that's really odd because most mobile MVPs are either just PWAs or some React Native shit compiled to binaries.

Why the hell wouldn't they just release it on the web?
I miss 3dfx :) But the 3dfx remnants got swallowed by NVIDIA, so in a way, it lives on. It's funny that ATI got swallowed by AMD.
Does this mean we don't have to give OpenAI our phone number anymore?
It's integral for the executive office to be able to head off garbage information like that spewed by MAGAs and antivax people, no one forced twitter or facebook to censor that garbage, but they chose to. This judgement is garbage and the judge's decision will pretty quickly be vacated by the appellate court because the executive branch has been able to contact newspapers and other media since the beginning of the nation. It seems to me like this judge thinks that the judicial branch is the only "powerful" branch of the government these days, like the Supreme Court seems to think as well.
Or the more likely scenario happens, we can’t progress tech fast enough to undo the damage we’ve caused and this becomes the greatest disaster of all time for humanity.
Yeah, that's the one scenario that makes sense to me. If you're already deep in the IG ecosystem and what-not, then maybe it makes sense to jump on Threads. I wonder if they'll be able to attract many people who weren't already IG users though?

Then again, while I know IG is popular, I don't know how many actual users they have. Maybe "everybody in the world" was on IG and will wind up on Threads now as well? shrug
How do you convince them the mobile app is doing what it says? There are so many layers of things that are completely invisible to a human without using other computer tools. Paper physically moving is way easier to understand and watch.
The second half of this paragraph is pretty damning summary of the performance of the stick-holder (I can't even call him a pilot).

> In a July 2011 article in Aviation Week, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was quoted as saying the crash was a "seminal accident" and suggested that pilots would be able to better handle upsets of this type if they had an indication of the wing's angle of attack (AoA).[264] By contrast, aviation author Captain Bill Palmer has expressed doubts that an AoA indicator would have saved AF447, writing: "as the PF [pilot flying] seemed to be ignoring the more fundamental indicators of pitch and attitude, along with numerous stall warnings, one could question what difference a rarely used AoA gauge would have made".[265]

I think there is a high percentage (probably a majority) of 15-hour, pre-solo student pilots who could have broken the stall of AF447 well above 30K feet.

Another reference that goes a little more into it, but short of reading the official report: https://degreesofcertainty.blog/2019/05/08/air-france-flight...

> The pilot at the controls that night was Pierre-Cédric Bonin. Although he had clocked up many hours in an Airbus cockpit, his actual experience of manually flying a plane like the A330 was minimal. His role had primarily been to monitor the automatic system. The time he had spent manually flying would likely have been focused on take-off and landing. So, when the autopilot disengaged, because ice crystals had begun to form inside the air-speed sensors in the fuselage, he didn’t know what to do. The fly-by-wire system downgraded itself to a mode that gave Bonin less assistance. With the safety net gone, the plane was now liable to stall if conditions allowed, and Bonin inadvertently proceeded to create those conditions.

...

> The Air France 447 pilots ‘were hideously incompetent,’ says William Langewiesche, author of the Vanity Fair article
Maybe I should have used a better example then. Like Newton and alchemy maybe? My point was more you can be intelligent, educated, etc. and still have dumb beliefs. I agree with you about the flat earther stuff.

Funnily enough, I used to work on a project called Hollow Earth. That team loved to joke around with conspiracy theories.
I do it all the time in chat. I'll say, Good Morning [name], and wait for them to respond. It seems rude to me to just blurt out what I want. If I walked up to someone in an office whom I don't normally speak with, I would first say, "Hi. How are you?" and wait for them to respond. At the very minimum, I would say hi and wait for them to say, hi back before I tell them what I'm looking for. Same thing over chat.
I'm not a pro in this field but I would think with AMD acquiring Xilinx they see a better way to the AI competition through FPGA. I would suspect others are in the same boat. GPU for AI is a nice hack, but still a hack. Make hardware that specifically is for that job.
To answer the question why there is not much competition, I would like to point out that the required expertise is very rare. Not specifically the chip design expertise but the expertise spanning both chip hardware and low-level software for such chip-specific hardware, that is all necessary to create the compilers, the frameworks and libraries and which can also plug-in well with the existing AI/ML ecosystem such as PyTorch.
Also, without context, the smartest people at Harvard could end up being career poets, while the rejected applicants could all end up as MIT engineers and Wharton business majors. While an extreme example, even the elite universities have academic focuses, attract students interested those, and accept students based on how strongly they want those interests represented in the student body.
Well, I for one do not "trust" the accuracy of its output. It may very often be right, but it's not an expert system or truth maintenance system.

And especially if you're doing original research, trying to seek out primary sources and understand something that might not be in the more popular history texts, I would be even more dubious.
Carrier aggregation is a thing since LTE-Advanced
It looks really, really interesting. But when you say it syncs super fast... is syncing initiated manually, or do you mean that changes on one device appear on another device quickly?
I don’t know, have you seen the Yankees this year?
Many of us approve of that.
I was so disappointed with the 7970 and 680 era of cards because the one time AMD launched first they priced a mid size die as if it was a top end card and Nvidia followed suit renaming the x70 card to the 680 as competition. It marked the beginning of the period where cards have got more expensive and renamed over and over. The 580 in pedigree looked a lot more like a Titan card/x90 does today than any x80. An x80 today is a x60 class card of that era in terms of die size, memory bus width and power consumption targets and a host of other core big measures of GPU design.

They have both been at it gradually increasing prices to the point where a mid range card of a decade ago now costs 5x as much and twice the price of an entire console. It's got pretty insane this generation with marginal gains and massive price hikes and another set of renaming cards to step the dies down again. Finally no one is buying them but these companies are big enough they will just blame the overall economy anyway.
> It occurs over several decades, just enough to cause skepticism or feelings of "it's not changing so quickly".

It's also important to realize that this isn't all "natural" skepticism and there's plenty of money being thrown around to spread FUD about the causes, severity, and consequences of climate change.
Yeah, at some point VC became synonymous with tech. I mean here we all are, discussing this topic on a VC's forum.

The two are heavily-overlapped, for sure. But in the last 25 years, it feels like the horse (tech) has been steadily placed further and further behind the cart (VC).
If the GCC compiler has an issue, I'm in a lot of trouble too, even though it's open source. I guess I could scan the code and figure out any minor problems (or figure out why I was misusing it) but I'm not an expert in compilers, or even at tensor programming.

Obviously it would be better if they're open source, since someone would be able to fix them, and it helps to know how your tools really work. But a better closed source driver is probably the right tool for most problems.
Jumps are slower on completely random input. If I understand Linus’s point correctly, he is suggesting that random inputs like this are unusual (although a good way to measure worst case performance)
> But it's a problem for chunked messages too.

I'm curious to hear more about what you've seen. My naive hope was that a proper streaming decrypt API would be enough of a pit of success that developers wouldn't be tempted to sabotage themselves.
It's definitely overreach by an activist MAGA judge. It will be overturned within the next week or two, I'm sure that the judges in this circuit are shocked that one of their own would be guilty of such poor interpretation of the situation and trying to invoke absolute authority over the executive branch.
Standard Notes claims to, with a caveat that there may be a format it can't handle due to Evernote adding features.

A transfer-in from Evernote, either natively or through some third party utility, is a must. I'm not interested in writing something to parse .enex and put it into some other format (although .enex looks pretty easy to parse - it's xml with embedded BASE64 for some things like images).
This is the bottleneck. EUV Photolithography is one of the hardest engineering challenges ever faced, it's like trying to drop a feather from space and guaranteeing it lands on a specific blade of grass. Manufacturing these GPUs at all requires us to stretch the limit of what is physically possible in multiple domains, much less producing them at scale.
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Trust and affection are two different emotions that I'm able to separate.

For example, I like Adidas shoes but when they boast about sustainability I question the truth in that and their intentions.

I prefer Pepsi over Coke but I don't trust either to be truthful in their marketing. I think it's bullshit that Santa prefers Coke, for one he's not even a real person, but I don't dislike Coke for using Santa as a mascot.

I hate Disney though and I firmly believe they're among one of the worst companies on the planet. I oppose anything they do out of principle and believe every decision they make needs to answer yes to the question "Will this make us a billion dollars?" I hope to live to see the day they fold and disappear forever.

So no, I don't dislike every corporation and my inherit distrust doesn't undermine my views one bit. I don't know how one can possibly trust a capitalist company whose motives are primarily profit driven. I don't know how one could think a company stands for anything that wouldn't make them money or would honestly have a goal that wasn't driven by profits.

A good barometer on if a company has morals is if they use rainbow logos in Saudi Arabia during June. Try coming up with a single argument for why a company world proudly display them in North America but not in the Middle East without mentioning profits or market share, and good luck. I personally think it's completely indefensible.
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It's not an entropy question at all; it's that the algorithm only gives you a fixed amount of bits (the key size plus the AES message block) to divide up, and if you only use the message block itself (as NIST GCM does) that's not enough space to feel comfortable picking nonces at random due to e.g. the birthday problem.
You've been spamming comments across threads on this issue. Why does it rankle you?
Anyone with a passing understanding of Assembly or compilers would find that idea laughable. As for the others, it turns out not knowing what you don’t know can be very expensive.
E3 95 when Sony came on stage and announced the price of the PlayStation and then just mic dropped because they knew they just beat Sega.
Yeah....
Best kept secret in the AI boom really is that you don't need a ton of local horsepower to run a model and do something useful, you only really need the grunt once, to do the training in a reasonable amount of time.

Combine that with the stuff that Mythic was working on in texas (before they ran out of burn) and we're looking at a world where, most people won't have a need for heavy GPU compute.
My favorite infamous example being the MPV C locale commit: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

You can really feel the author's rage at the state of the world.
Well, someone's already brought up the Latter-Day Saint movement, which has interesting features:

- LDS claim to be Christian
- LDS claim to believe in the Trinity
- LDS have added to Sacred Scripture and claim that Divine Revelation is ongoing
- LDS are, in fact, henotheistic, which is a little bit of slip between mono- and poly-. LDS believe that God the Father, and Jesus as well, were once mortal beings who achieved *theosis*, becoming gods, and ruling their own planets, which is the same that LDS men can aspire to: becoming gods and rulers of planets in their own right, in the celestial kingdom, with their wives by their side.
- LDS use a lot of the same words but with significantly different meanings. It is for this reason that Christians have judged the LDS baptism "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit", as a non-Christian, non-Trinitarian ceremony without effect, because even when using the same words, LDS are *saying and believing something entirely different*.
- Joseph Smith established an interesting syncretism among Second Temple Judaism (as he understood it), Restorationist Christianity in the USA, and Freemasonry. Mormonism is Abrahamic, insofar as all those influences are Abrahamic as well, but nobody can rightly call Mormonism "monotheistic", given their doctrine of mortal men becoming gods.
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No, no, they get the oxygen, but we replace their nitrogen with CO2.
Man I hate these alarmist hit pieces.

- "You cant delete Threads without deleting Instagram altogether": but you can deactivate it. What's the difference, and why do I care? Without including that info, you're useless.

- "Threads collects sensitive personal information about you": How? Inferred from the things I post? Well I'll just not post those things.

- "Threads collects data about your employment": Same.

- "Threads collects data about your body": Same. Alternatively, this could come from the Health API, which I have to provide explicit permission for. Such permission was not even asked for.

- "Threads collects data about your web activity": How? It reads referrer headers. So an issue with my User Agent, if it were configured to do that. Which it isn't.

- "Threads collects data about your location". It may reverse-geocode my IP. Okay. And? Literally any analytics service with a map does the same.
> In contrast, people I’ve met in the working world tend to have comparatively
> little time and interest for teaching or mentorship. Apart from the many
> individual coworkers and bosses that expect you to show up and figure things
> out with minimal direction, there is a more general atmosphere of “we’re
> paying you” that is less conducive to asking questions relative to the
> classroom or office hours.

This feels to be a weak argument against on the job training. I'd go so far as to say it is gross negligence in how little folks realize a lot of doing your job is a performance and best taught to someone.

We can easily see this in many entry level jobs. Starting any fast food job, you would expect someone to train you on how to prepare the food and package it for delivery. Sadly, I can't think of many times after that that I was given training. Yes, many on call rotations would have a shadowing period, but often that was less training and more venting from whoever you were shadowing.

Why do we in the software industry think that teaching and learning is so far removed from the jobs that we have? I've been a skeptic of "mentorship" things where the idea seems to be "hope that something comes out of it," but at least there is hope in those ideas. The alternative seems to be to hope that the current styles and ideas will work. With the goal of finding a style and idea that you can hire for and then push all responsibility onto the folks walking in the door that day.
People on HN in particular tend to oversimplify large projects. Trying to build and maintain an app the size of Twitter would be hard. Trying to tie it into a functional advertising network would be harder. HN just tends to be brightly cynical about complexity in general; in reality there would be very significant challenges (as Musk is discovering now).

But do I buy that specifically Facebook could do it? Yeah, obviously they could. It's not at all surprising that Facebook could quickly launch a Twitter clone. This isn't like the "metaverse", Facebook already runs social networks that are larger and more complicated than Twitter is, and Threads looks to be highly tied into their existing infrastructure.

I could not build a Twitter clone in my free time, but I also don't currently run Instagram.
I’ve done nothing of the sort.

As I said throughout this thread, the injunction prohibits any communications based on a vague and subjective content or motive between a group of approx. 500,000 citizens who are US government employees and several million individuals worldwide who are employed by any of the named social media companies, nonprofits, or similar organizations.

This is not ok. If restrictions on speech are ever justified they have to be narrowly tailored in terms of content and substance, neither of which is true here.
> I can't speak to the latter three, but for China it's in large part whether you tested into a good middle school (at age 10 or whatever), and then tested into a good high school, and then spent a sufficient amount of time (read: 20hrs/day) cramming in the ~year before the exam supported by your good high school.

> Or have rich parents

So sounds like a useful test then: actual knowledge or skill is at best second order, but ability to fit into the upper tier networks has been demonstrated.
If you're using WorkerThreadPools or HTTPRequests be careful - some change they made to threading broke one of my projects. Nothing else seems to be affected so far.
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Have you tried guidance?

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
Well, what are you referring to? People's time is valuable, and figuring out some chemical puzzle for your amusement doesn't seem like a good use of it.
It’s gonna take another decade before the suits at F500 companies figure that out, though. You wouldn’t believe the wasteful nonsense that’s in production already…
Facebook Messenger and Google Talk started off as full XMPP (Jabber) clients: I remember talking to people using Pidgin and whatever Gnome client was of the day (E-something) over my own self-hosted ejabberd.

As soon as they grow over the need for interoperability, they kill it off.
A number of STEM majors graduating in 2009 and 2010 decided to get a masters rather than enter that economy.

As the economy recovered, STEM hiring picked up substantially and people with a masters degree were quite hirable.

https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2017/science-technology-engine...

> Employment in STEM occupations grew by 10.5 percent, or 817,260 jobs, between May 2009 and May 2015, compared with 5.2 percent net growth in non-STEM occupations. Computer occupations and engineers were among the types of STEM occupations with the highest job gains. Employment in computer occupations was nearly 3.2 million in May 2009 and nearly 3.9 million in May 2015. Employment of engineers was nearly 1.5 million in May 2009, compared with over 1.6 million in May 2015. Some STEM occupations lost jobs. In 2009, there were nearly 478,000 jobs in STEM-related sales occupations, compared with approximately 406,000 in 2015.
> GCM's security falls to pieces

That's an exaggeration. Reusing the nonce in GCM allows decryption of messages with the same nonce. It does NOT compromise the key.
It was better at two things:

1. not interrupting me with pings all day but helping me to catch up on messages in batches

2. Much better format for long conversations, proposals, and discussions
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> By pointing to rational or moral failures, you already imply that we are supposed to act in a certain way.

Don't keep such an open mind that your brain falls out.

> If it is irrational that history repeats itself, do you think that it would be rational if history progressed towards some goal

It has, often. For example, 50 years ago a bunch of fossil fuel executives decided it would be best to let the planet burn, so they can keep making money.

History progressed toward their goal, and now we're starting to really suffer. But they have their megayachts.

Do you think that's rational?
Also, regarding conformism, an undergraduate degree is about learning the basics of a field. Undergraduate classes are not the cutting edge of thought in the area by and large. It’s similar to learning to play an instrument or paint. The masters know how to break the rules because they know all the rules and know when and how it is interesting to break them. I personally can’t just put three tones on a canvas and make it like a Rothko or play with dissonance like Ornette Coleman. They can experiment successfully because they know how to very intentionally break a rule.
The issue is that in-person, you can see the individual and whether they’re going to immediately respond (since, socially, it would be odd to delay in response to someone who is speaking to you in-person); in chat, you have no idea if I’m going to answer in 5 seconds or 5 hours. And the same for me as I wait for your response to my “Good morning to you, as well.”
Use what you know! That is the only reason they chose Python. Instagram is a Python/Django shop.
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