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> Isn’t readability and comprehensibility the job of the editor/journal to check

Yes, who do you think ask the reviewers to perform their reviews?

> peer review is more for checking if the methodology, scope, claim, direction, conclusion and relevances is sound&trustable.

No, the parent comment has it right. The only thing being reviewed is the paper, and the point is to make sure it communicates clearly, not that it’s “sound and trustable.”
My monitor is wider than it is tall.
Science does not in fact prove only fruits and vegetables are good for you, and in recent years the healt benefits of meat and dairy have been coming to light.
> What about indirect revenue?

Google decision makers must know of its importance as a moat, a data collection pipe, a vehicle for other services and so on.

No offense, but trying to squeeze direct revenue out seems kinda laughable. Or maybe even a way to plausibly deny the indirect revenue importance.
Reminds me also of Aorist Rods.

The description of which in the book shows that not a lot has changed since Young Zaphod Plays It Safe was published in 1986.

https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Aorist_Rod
Honestly, the technological exit strategy should be integrated into every development plan. There are loads of options... Spin out, sell the technology, open source. Simply dropping support should almost never be an option. I daresay there are situations it makes sense, but I can't think of them.
It's also neat that you can review almost everything in google maps. Wanna leave a review for a cool rock in your neighborhood? Sure! Why not.
Livebook: Automate code and data workflows with interactive notebooks
I used to struggle with this a lot, and still do to an extent. One of the most frustrating parts of it for me is having to argue problems that have already been solved, people using outdated tech and approaches.

But then I burned out, badly, I’m still living through the aftershocks.

Now I still get frustrated, and I do argue my case, but only so far as my energy allows, at which point I drop it, keep my head down and do the work. I’ve moved real creativity to my private life where I’m learning the guitar, carpentry, electronics, and reading more than I ever have.
Far from feeling like I’ve given up, I feel like I’ve taken control where it most matters. Believe me when I say that the effort you spend winning an argument at work will amount to nothing in the long term, nobody will thank you for it. Conserve that energy for yourself.

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I agree we should see LLMs in a different way. You said it right, the intelligence comes from the data it trains on. And this data comes from an evolutionary process of language and ideas, memetics. So it evolves at a much faster speed than biological agents. It is not personal intelligence, it travels from human to human and from human to AI.

I call it language intelligence. LLMs are just agentified language and the merits lie with the language, not the model. And I believe humans too are just agentified language, but with better embodiment than AIs - we contextually generate language to solve our day to day problems.

One consequence I see is that AI evolution and human evolution are intertwined by language, the common repository of understanding, models and ideas. We both benefit when a new idea gets added to the mix. But memetics is blind in a way, it has no purpose of its own other than diverse idea replication. It is leading both humans and AI into unknown territory.
In a general setting, I have found two interesting aspect to how and why software gets developed.

Most of the products reach their inherent feature maturity (a toaster just needs to toast and eject) and beyond that much isn't needed by the end users (a digital temp display, Bluetooth connectivity with notifications to mobile app when toast is ready and such) but rather gets developed either:

Because Product manager has to show and prove his/her worth to the higher ups OR the backlog should be full and the team MUST NOT sit idle.

In my observation - some 60% of the written software comes from above and that ranks far higher than any critically necessary technical debt no matter what unless software comes to a grinding halt.
At first I thought it was a new piano by Ravenscroft.

https://ravenscroftpianos.com
Thanks, my first torrent was published on TPB in 2005, I know how that works.

> It might take several weeks for that first peer to hit 100%

And this is a problem here. More leechers -> more IO for the random blocks -> less overall IOPS.

If you find a torrent client what can advertise the blocks sequentially then it would be much faster.
Absence of street names is not accidental. I wonder if the theory is that leaving them off is more likely to ensure you remain dependent on the app.
Me, too. The article is effectively an advertisement for WDL = Whipsaw Design Lab. The designer they talk about is the WDL CEO. All quotes are by himself. It's on the WDL homepage. I'm not surprised that it's heavy on marketing keywords and light on results.
Since when have comments become so obnoxious on HN?

A very large portion of the population willingly and happily uses Google products. These new tools make it easier to remove unwanted data about yourself from search. That's a good thing.

Please stop it with the "Google bad" circle jerk and realize that the majority of non-nerds has a very different perspective on this.
Loup Valliant's main project is monocypher. It is typically distributed as one C file and one H file. It provides a relatively small interface by being well-scoped and well-designed.

Nowhere does he say that you should have 100 small classes across 1000 files. He says the opposite: your modules should have a lot of functionality but a small interface.
It’s the 21st century now. We can drop the “women are generally emotionally less stable” pseudoargument that allows men to own women as if they were property.
Yes, maybe there should be a process where peer scientists review a paper before it’s published, to make sure it is written clearly enough for other scientists to understand it.
Pro life tip: all medical doctors are like that. When your health is on the line question everything.

Yes, doctors are just technicians trying to fix your body. In your It career how many lousy technicians have you met? This is exactly the same, but it's your life, or the quality of it on the line. Remember it next time you get "a diagnosis" and you have this little voice of doubt in your head "hmm, that seems weird".
I didn’t realize Bing had a map app, and I’ve never heard of NaviExpert of Yanosik. Granted, sample size of 1 (actually a half dozen or so—my immediate family haven’t heard of these either).
Every single sentiment expressed in this article has been expressed before. I agree with all of it, but there really isn't anything original here. This is the received wisdom on readability.

I am sure when I scroll down there will be people being upvoted for such profound insights as 'readability is good'. checks yep.
BART has extended a little closer on both sides. Or BART + CalTrain (esp. some variant of express / limited). It's still a longer ride, a full hour or more from East Bay.
it is not blocked, but i get an annoying pop up that tells me i should use chrome.
I'm using X now
Given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
I sort of expected there would be a link.
Or full refund recall. Plus environmental tax and full onshore recycling of parts.
Why would you not have ublock origin installed?
If what the parent poster discovers is interesting, and other people consider it to be valuable, they will replicate their results in the process of building on top of it.

High-impact work that people care about gets built on, and replicated. Low impact work does not.
I recently watched this show on netflix called "The Billion Dollar Code" that went into the details about maps beginnings and other companies claim to the idea. It was pretty interesting.
If you want to find major points of interest, then just use Wikishoot-me:

https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/
True, it's a failure for the phone to bring in more profits for Apple if they have to put in a removable battery. I get it.
Possibly, but I'd say that Google's experience with kCTF was that allowing io_uring on hosts running containers has allowed for multiple breakouts. They paid out over $1m on io_uring related bug bounties https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/learnings-from-kctf-...

Also while user namespaces help in theory, in practice expanding the attack surface of the kernel exposed to unprivileged users has consequences in allowing container breakout (e.g. CVE-2022-0185) also more recently CVE-2023-3390
Those Rust and Go bugs aren't much different from C gotchas when writing portable UNIX code.
>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlighted with blue color. In this mode you can just click on the roads to go to street view.
The other day gave Coleman a try for a few days but the H key almost at its center made its usage a pain in the butt for some reason

Isn’t this why everyone uses Colemak-DH instead?

(Or is there really a layout called Coleman?)
Smart homes are a corporate fever dream, adding extra layers of complexity, technical debt, servicing costs, for zero benefit. Wall switches and dials are already user friendly, the only exception being for people with disabilities.
> In 2011, using 2009 data, we published a study demonstrating that among the most highly developed nations, those requiring the most vaccine doses for their infants tended to have the least favorable infant mortality rates (r = 0.70, p < .0001).

I stopped right there.

Correlation is interesting, but its not the causation this study is seemingly reaching for.
>If somebody does not understand the implications of a computation such as a floating-point 0.1 + 0.2, they should not be using floating-point.

"float" is usually the second thing taught in the math tutorial, right after "int", in many languages.

JavaScript and many other languages hide many things away and just call everything "a number" which is a float by disguise.

"Decimal" types are usually hidden in some standard library, and not as a first class primitive type of the language.

Stop victim blaming, that's not going to get the discussion anywhere. You HAVE to acknowledge that the first option is non-obvious of its flaws.
Distributed high performance task scheduling framework
To do so much with it you need to know Elixir or Erlang ;)
The main reason degoogled android doesn’t work is because of the (terrible) design of the android location services and maps APIs.

I’m not sure who that drives revenue for, though.

I switched back to iPhone over this. I strongly prefer Here We Go to Apple Maps, and it is available on Android.

(Open platform, my ass…)
Almost every other mammal has one!
Nice of them to respect crawling after they've already trained their model. Presumably these headers don't affect any pages they've already crawled to train GPT(?)
There are a lot of various points to support contracts. Support contracts are not “fix any bug” or “implement any feature”, but…

- With a support contract, there are SLAs to respond to incidents / bugs within a timely manner, and

- You have a clear escalation path to talk to engineers, rather than customer service, and

- While you can’t dictate what features / bugs will get fixed, you do have some weight for prioritization.

If you have no support contract, then you may not be able to talk to engineers at all, your bug reports may get completely ignored (not even looked at), etc.
> However, it's quite an old product and if you went for a Hive system from 2016

These things are part of the house, like an appliance. 7 years is nothing in terms of a building, it's ridiculous to disable products in such a short time.
If google can't make money with maps, why isn't Maps taken out of google into a charity/non-profit backed thing. There's OpenStreetMap, and Wikipedia wouldn't mind having a Map I guess.

That way it'd help a bit with the monopoly heat and maintaining it could be slightly cheaper. I don't know the legal stuff, but I'd rather have a company supporting a non-profit than burning money internally, so I hope the incentives follow that (yeah, probably not true thanks to lobby and having rich people run governments)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Murder+Cove/@57.0310912,-1...

edit: also this one made me chuckle https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tim+Hortons/@82.4982691,-6...
Thanks for commenting. The issue is not with using AI features though - it is with the Terms granting you unrestricted and eternal use to our conversations to train your AI and potentially disclose our work to your other customers.
Yes and also, the images seem wrong, because the strings are arranged short to long left to right, whereas the pitch goes the other way. (Low pitch (requiring long strings) is to the left of the keyboard, to high pitch to the right).

So the thing that is shown would need to have hammer commands crossed to work as advertised. If done mechanically, it would add considerable complexity to the design.
Did AutoCAD ever run inside Windows 3.xx? From my vague recollection, it was a DOS program in those days that was launched outside of Windows, or am missing something?
Appreciate your specificity in reply. I want to practice better responses to the unimaginative LA dunks on Bay food.
Circle jerk or not, Google is bad, and there's no reason why we shouldn't talk about that fact. Doesn't really matter if tons of people use Google products with whatever level of happiness they have.

Google is the perpetrator of serious privacy abuses, and we should rightly be skeptical any time they write about improving people's privacy online.
No, connected homes are. Smart homes on ZigBee, knx, etc (local first) are fine.
I am partial to Koboldcpp over text gen UI for a number of reasons.

...But I am also a bit out of the loop. For instance, I have not kept up with the CFG/negative prompt or grammar implementations in the UIs.
I mean, they are good if the system is closed.

The same way certain systems work on 80' hardware, they do a job and only a job without internet connection.
Anything but Tech Debt
If they want to be profitable long-term, they'll have to give up that short-term thinking. I could see a 50/50 split being reasonable.
What Made 1950s Housewives So Miserable
Reader: Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
My recent experience with trying to get a working led dimmer combination has almost pushed me to switching to a phillips hue. So not all dials are user friendly. I did notice though, that almost all high-end light bulbs are smart bulbs. Getting name-brand good quality dimmable leds is difficult (except for phillips warm-glow, but the compatibility horror of those bulbs is what started me on this journey)
I have seen people go back to QWERTY because the improvement was only marginal and not worth sacrificing a ubiquitous layout for.

(Disclaimer: I use Colemak-DH.)
A related Elixir feature you might also find interesting is Doctests: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...

You can write inline examples in your docstrings and they’re automatically turned into unit tests. So again you get that documentation as an executable test suite not subject to rot, but at a per-function level. Same kind of idea but different levels of the documentation stack.
My grandfather did also.

Please don't trash them, I will take them and pay you for shipping and your time. My email is in my bio.

I understand why you don't want to hang onto them, no judgement.
yep. It's true. And removable cables, and keyboards. all kinds of things represent potential failure points.

we don't "not do it" because its a potential failure point. we factor it in.
I believe the Label on the headline here should be 1997 as per the last paragraph of the article:

„This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest.“
Yeah but if the response to your bug report is "WONTFIX", it doesn't much matter if you got that reply in a timely manner. It still does you absolutely no good.
If you’re abandoning your friends because of political differences, you’re part of the problem. Picking fights with people because you don’t agree with them doesn’t change any minds and does make the world a little worse. Also, your beliefs may not be rooted in fact as much as you’d like or you might be more confident in your truth to win in its own.
Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
Apart from running code inside a "markdown" file, livebook can do much more. You have Smart cells to show charts, run sql queries against a db, run Neural Network tasks such as Image-To-Text generation using Bumblebee[1], etc. It is collaborative as well.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee
Indeed. By the "injuries per mile" metric, the Apollo spacecraft were probably one of the safest modes of travel ever devised, yet I don't see anyone championing space capsules as a safer substitute for cars. :)
> The fascinating thing is that capabilities of these models emerge at certain sizes and nobody knows why

Is there a more technical dive into this statememt?

In particular, is it an emergent statistical property of the model and/or the training data size or an emergent illusion of the human observer of model outputs (the way we visually perceive fluid motion once a frame rate exceeds a certain threshold).

The nature of this "emergence" is interesting both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.

The "large" model size (I put the word in quotes, because large compared to what equivalent task?) might be somehow intrinsic, in which case it will spark a race to make such sized computational resources more common place. But it might also be an imcomplete understanding of the model class.
Google Maps just isn't a map. I wonder if the people that work on it have ever looked at actual maps before. You have to zoom in almost to the maximum setting to see street names, and even then they often don't show up. Real maps show street names labeled on every street. But Google Maps developers are obviously more interested in it looking 'clean' and in showing little ads all over it than in it actually being useful.
Osmand should be on every single phone. It works when nothing else does including your cell connection. It's saved my butt a dozen times at this point.
How branches influence performance of your code and what can you do about it?
I'm surprised by that given the api pricing.
The title is not terribly informative, but the result sounds fairly interesting (and the article is open access):

"Maximum mutational robustness in genotype–phenotype maps follows a self-similar blancmange-like curve"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2023.016...
> frantically-cobbled dog shit

And that's my suspicion about why open source often seems two steps behind: when it's in the open, you have to do it right and can't hide the bodies. Doing things right is hugely slower at first. It's only in the long run when doing it right pays off. Steady incremental progress outruns the FCDS junk when that inevitably reaps the whirlwind of the technical debt incurred during the initial breakneck development.

Sometimes the FCDS is a consultancy deal from the outset and you cannot maintain the steaming bowl of canine leavings in front of you at all. Ever wonder why every now and again a serviceable, but clunky and unmaintained shovelware-like app (parking, alarm system, transport ticketing, that kind of thing) gets replaced with one that's basically the same but a different icon and a handful of trimmed features? New consultants just got done frantically cobbling it from scratch. This is clear in the app landscape, but hardware is often a similar consultancy thing.
Customers need to stop buying "connected" smart home devices, but more importantly, legislation needs to prevent this bullshit;

I still remember the story of Sonos intentionally bricking up-traded speakers that were perfectly functional so they couldn't be sold on, and some other company (I now forget who) bricking their remote with a firmware update because they no longer wanted to support it.

Force anyone who wants to release connected products like this to put the code in Escrow and if they go belly up without a plan, it goes public.

Communities across all disciplines have reverse engineered defunct products since forever, imagine what we can do with the source.
It's also been downright unusable. While navigating it hides all the business names from me so I can't browse the stores are along my way. I constantly have to exit navigation, approximately remember the route, browse the stores, and then re-enter navigation mode. This is only one of many pain points.

Its assistant is also useless.

"OK Google, zoom in the map by a factor of 1.5"

"OK Google, stop hiding the businesses"

"OK Google, add a stop for the last Safeway before the turn onto route 120"

None of this stuff works.
> Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

That's exactly how it works.

Click the man, roads with street view data are highlighted, click a road.
I wonder how many posters were even born before then.
If you scrape my hobby website about photography, scuba diving or let's say baking or gardening which improves your model by let's say a delta of 0.00000000001 than shouldn't I get some free credits to use that model or proportionate share in the revenue stream?

EDIT: scuba diving NOT scooba diving
Navigation in cities has also started to become a problem in the last decade, as more and more cities try to reduce car traffic

E.g., there's a "no car" street near me where the access restrictions are not on Google Maps. I've submitted the changes a month ago, to no avail. I resubmitted a week ago, as I could not find any trace of my reports.

The restrictions can be seen on the past 3+ years of Streetview footage...
There are rumours the restrictions have been correctly mapped, but subsequently removed due to telemetry data (cars frequently drive there anyways, as there's no enforcement and also a lot of crappy navigation systems from Here Maps :) )

Apple Maps and OSM have them, the former finally getting it right after they rolled out their own maps. There's no excuse when it's public data in the Road Authority database...
FTA

> But as much as I’d like to abandon Google Maps for the increasingly more user-friendly Apple Maps, I can’t.

OpenStreetMaps is the only service I use nowadays. Google Maps does not even show secondary or tertiary roads, it's just ad after ad in a color vomit screen.
I’m kinda of the opposite. I think alt-layouts are only a marginal improvement (you can get most of the benefit with a small number of changes), but I think it’s a fun brain teaser.

I first learned Colemak-DH and I am currently trying RSTHD and I am upto 32 WPM in a few days.

In my 40ies.
He won a landslide victory.
Phew! the licenced bar which named itself "frogs hollow saloon" isn't a problem, its just the common or garden maps graffiti the article complains about!

(amazed it's gone. Thanks for pointing it out)
Yes, more uptake of mdx in general. E.g. I use Astro static site generator and they offer it too.

https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/markdown-content/
Google Maps has been broken on Firefox for many months. Not sure if it's my personal setup, or some addon, but on every Firefox instance I have, the search is entirely broken - it won't return any results.

I've since switched over to openstreetmap.org for most of my use. It's absolutely not perfect, the search is not as powerful as Google when it comes to recognizing typos or what I'm looking for, but the actual street data is really, really good, and the map view is very uncluttered.
Been trying to use GrapheneOS for a while with their Google Play Services location services shim and it does seem to be fully dependent on GPS.
On that note, I also wonder if they end up getting this information anyway through another source like Common Crawl.