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No, the vast majority of knowledge out there has never been studied scientifically. If you reject knowledge that isn't "in literature" you are flying blind in life... even scientists can't do that in their own research.

I'm talking from both firsthand experience with dogs, and also as an adult human male that had a medical issue where my testosterone production stopped, which was a fascinating and terrifying firsthand experience into what testosterone actually does... I basically lost all passion and drive, and was both extremely fatigued and indifferent to pretty much everything, exactly the same thing that happened to my dog. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I have also had several male dogs neutered as puppies that had no major health issues, and plenty of energy and excitement about life into old age.

So why does a sudden drop of testosterone cause fatigue and a whole host of other medical and psychological issues in adult males (human, canine, and presumably all mammals), but women and children have plenty of energy with lower levels? I have looked somewhat into the scientific literature on this, and have not seen any conclusive explanation, but would love to know.

There is plenty of research into the symptoms of both humans and dogs about the symptoms of hypoandrogenism/hypogonadism. I would be very surprised if neutering was somehow less harmful (especially since having seen firsthand that it is not).
They are in some languages, but Rust instead implemented them with a pollable Future trait. The async keyword, then, causes the block to desugar into a new type that implements Future. In order to emulate a coroutine, the generated poll function includes a state machine that tracks the await point where the function was suspended.
congrats for reading the article;)

I agree the naming is a bit unfortunate and one needs to differentiate between custom GPT assistants and custom trained GPT models only available for enterprise. then there's also also API based fine tuning and assistants which are a yet completely different thing. also it seems that there are no longer any plug-ins, So custom GPT with custom actions/functions filled that role.

( I'm sure Microsoft with their brilliant naming had a good influence :-)/sarcasm )
Why not take them to court or get the police involved? Did you do those?
Well, considering you’d have most of the needed utilities already connected and present, a large population of well educated people, and extremely high bandwidth connections in close proximity, it’s probably only slightly higher than elsewhere.
Your comments boil down to "I think rust is easy, stop giving your opinions that don't agree".

You didn't make any arguments here at all. You can check my other comment for detailed reasons why async in a language is not a good approach to concurrency. The overview is that is just isn't a holistic solution and the only time it will solve someone's problem is if they have extremely simple concurrency needs in the first place and those never scale or change.
> You can argue that artists given an implicit license for people to copy art into their own brains while viewing it.

You can, but it would be more correct to argue that memories in a human brain are not copies under the law at all, and so need no license (or fair use analysis) in the first place. This has different results than an implicit license argument, especially when there is an explicit denial of license or an explicit license which is also explicitly bounded to exclude any rights not explicitly licensed.
I am in doubts about async too. For better understanding I have implemented my own executor and io library (even with some tricky async destruction) and I am not quite happy with it. The problem is that in rust there are no other good methods to write safe async code, are there? My impression that borrow checker forbids lots of patterns I know from other language.
I don't think that argument survives scrutiny. If you pick an arbitrary activity, the % of people these days that are doing that activity is gonig to be very different from previous centuries. That's just because the structure of society is very different from previous centuries. I don't think it's valid to try to draw any other inferences from there.
A Shakespeare play is fine for a high school curriculum. It would be a good contrast for more modern works, and it is an important cultural touchstone.

But there's no good reason to cover four, or five of them. Just pick one, struggle through it, and then go analyse three or four works of modern theatre, and modern penny theatre.

Half the point of schooling is trying to instill interest in a subject. Nothing instills disinterest in theatre like spending 80% of your mental energy trying to figure out what the hell the words mean.

Shakespeare is meant to be seen. Shakespeare is meant to be parsable with no mental effort by the 16-th century groundlings with the rotten fruit and a strong desire to throw it.

Shakespeare in grade 8-12 English is neither of those things.
By definition, a meme is memetic. It "self-replicates" from one person's mind to another's in an anologous way to how genes propagate.

A meme that fails to attain some sort of popularity doesn't meet the criteria. Like a gene that fails to propagate itself. An evolutionary dead-end.
it is pretty embarrassing (for them) how credulus Musk enthusiasts are even in 2023.
Show HN: Webbypaint – GPU accelerated digital painting in the browser
I really enjoy these scans that have been popping up lately, so cool to see inside of things! Are there any intellectually property issues related to publishing these?

I've had a piece of (probably false) information stuck in my mind about how industrial design can be IP protected in some way, making it problematic to publish x-rays without licensing. Which I've thought of as another silly example of IP gone mad.

But apparently there is nothing to this, or has something changed in that space?
LLMs in a Vacuum Are Useless
Just to make sure - it's fine to ignore legal treaties, etc., because if "they" aren't willing to take up arms to defend what's theirs, that's how the world works. But when I run you out of your house because I'd prefer to sleep there, then laws and the legal system are a perfectly reasonable avenue to expect to save you?

Hey, at least you're honest.
Choosing a technology because it’s what you want to work in is never proper engineering for non-college projects. Choose the best technology to…you know…create a quality product for your customer. You can get paid that way too.
I don't think we want to see national carriers broken up. If you don't think a mid-size carrier won't make fucking bank on roaming fees you haven't seen what a lot of them did in the '80s.

What really needs to be done is the monopolistic elements of cell phone service
like spectrum, tower, and backhaul provided at cost by a neutral (state owned) entity and the retail services built on top of reselling that.

The barrier to entry on a ground up cell network is almost impossible to surmount without billions in capital but an MVNO that can work on the same cost basis and network as the national chains?
I would settle for stronger sender authentication. Of course SS7 and all that...
As a user who has maintained network services that communicate with Postgres, I'm very glad that sfackler's postgres library doesn't perform blocking IO calls, as that would make it unfit for purpose for me.
how would it make it less likely? Is seems like you are making some logical jumps
Collective copyright-like arguments do look strange but they were the core argument in the pirate bay trial. The founders were found guilty of assisting in infringement of copyright where the specific case of infringement and the specific copyrighted work is both unknown and deemed unnecessary to define.

The argument as it went went like this. Is the theory that no infringement has occurred believable, or can it be said as a forgone conclusion that over the course of the operation that some specific copyrighted work has been infringed on at some point in time and that the operator knowingly were aware that such cases was likely to have happened.

It is true that many lawyers and legal experts thought that the pirate founders were immune to such claims since usually one need to produce specific cases of specific copyrighted works in order to find someone guilty of assisting. The case however illustrated that such requirements are not always needed, and the Swedish supreme court did not feel it necessary to analyze it further.
Don't they essentially memorize all examples they've seen, which contrasts with understanding how to solve problems as in addition with carries on digits etc?
That's unfortunate, the Moffett Park development in Sunnyvale (https://www.moffettparksp.com/) looked good, I hope it won't be impacted too much.
The Universal Interface currently has a huge problem in the form of "prompt injection" where currently we have no principled way to separate instructions and data, e.g. https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/google-bard-data-e...

Not to say this is the only problem, but this one is at least moderately well known and a clear and visible blocker.
Always accuse the other side of what you are doing.[1] I'm European and have nothing to do with China. Just because I call out racism and anti-China propaganda doesn't mean anything.

[1]: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/china-news/21091-a-500-million-...
The game here are the odds to get away with it, the reward and the punishment. The size of the punishment should be adjusted to discourage repetition. The size of the budget should be adjusted to the damage.

We still need a better formula for rich people to benefit from hunting down other rich people. Airbnb is harmful to real estate value in the area but drives up prices elsewhere. It creates fluctuation in rich peoples wealth.
We currently support Java using Spring Boot + NodeJS using Typescript for backends and React using Typescript for Frontend.

We'll be adding more languages and frameworks as soon as we can!
> i'm not personally willing to engage in political subjects in my escapist media

When I see this I just think of that old joke that gamers think there are two sexes: male and political. Two races: white and political. Two sexualities: straight and political. etc etc you get the idea.

Bad news tho the political subjects are already in your escapist media your only choice is how you engage with them. Regarding any aspect of it as nonpolitical is itself a political act.
These critiques come up in every thread about a Lumafield post. But these articles are really sales pitches for the CT scanner and not a rigorous analysis of the item they put in it.
All About Cats, and What Ethernet Classifications Mean Beyond 'Bigger Better'
The one thing is that they seem to be using relatively small models. This may be a really damning result but I was under the impression that any generalization capabilities of LLMs appear in a non-linear fashion when you increase the parameter count to the tens of billions/trillions as in GPT4. It would be interesting if they could recreate the same experiment with a much larger model. Unfortunately I dont think thats likely to happen because of the resources required to train such models and the anti-open-source hysteria likely preventing larger models from being made publicly available much less the data they were trained on. Imagine that, stifling research and fearmongering reduces the usefulness of the science that does manage to get done.
I think most people do not realize that the real secret is just doing the thing most of the time and not overthink the times the thing could not be done.
And many don't understand that time is limited but energy and focus also is.
It does not matter that stuff are planned/schedule or that there are blocks of "free" time, you really can't maximize efficiency for everything, and it would not make a significant difference anyway.
The key is strong focus on what matters and letting everything else in the background.

This is why very often I get absolutely stunned at how much inefficient crap people put up with in their life, of course at the end of the day they have no real time/focus power to do anything worthwhile.
Those tightly compressed videos are not "kick-ass" at all. They're high-pitched and annoying.
Can you provide any examples where rapid growth has occurred in the Bay Area in the last 20 years?
Posting this because this is happening to someone I know right now. Their flight does not leave for another hour or so, but they will not be allowed on the flight. The flight is from India to Canada, and was booked months ago, on a Canadian credit card. Air Canada in India say that she will not be allowed to board the flight unless the person in Canada who booked the flight goes to the airport, in Canada, and verifies the credit card.

I have not found anything about this policy in FAQ, and this was not raised over the past weeks until the person actually reached the airport to check-in.

Edit:
I see that some sites list showing a credit card at check-in as a policy (0), so this seems to be a well-known problem. Air Canada don't list it as a requirement (1).

2nd edit:
I’ve just found out that they were allowed to check-in online, with still no notification that credit card verification would be required!
I have asked Air Canada whether the flight happened to be overbooked. I hope that’s not relevant.

(0) https://www.triptipedia.com/tip/dg6si2W/airlines-verifying-y...
(1) https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home/plan/travel-require...
The Big Business of Wish Fulfillment
...and that's the good part.
Memory Consumption and Limitations in LLMs with Large Context Windows
Part 1 of 2 blog series in which we explore the limits of LLMs with respect to memory overhead and context windows.
Astonishing that folks aren't running their torrent machines in other jurisdictions in this the year of our goddess 2023.
There are a lot of people that don't want to be held accountable for their negligence and blatant disregard for the safety of others. Driving like you're the main character is so normalized that it will take generations to fix the problem.
Isn't that sort of how GPT-4 already works? It's a Mixture of Experts architecture that bundles together a bunch of models and selects one for each query.
There's a difference between running a profitable business and running a business that has continuous growth.
I assume we're unlikely to truly mitigate anything with LLMs we can't mitigate in standard english.
I've run equipment in dc's in multiple places in the US, Germany, and Singapore. By far, the most expensive was Singapore.
I don't know why you lump NIMBY with Boomer. I think 99% of people don't want new constructions next to their properties.
I disagree with your analysis. The younger generation is genuinely concerned with those issues. However we live in a culture which has so long suppressed any discussion of where our products come from that no discussion of this is part of our normal lives. If younger people buy fast fashion it’s because they are young and they haven’t learned how the world fully works yet. But also young people are not a monolith and I’m sure a good percentage of the youth do understand the harms from fast fashion.

The desire to get things for cheap is deeply rooted in American and western culture and simple claims of hypocrisy don’t do justice to the pervasiveness of these ideas.
Yeah, providing a range when they specify the level is unethical, I agree
Prison Plastic Surgery
> there were a few folks who cried about having to prefix bytes with b'' when pushing text through sockets

It wasn't just that; any program with string literals in it that were being treated as bytes in Python 2 would have to have all those string literals prefixed with b in Python 3; otherwise the program would break.

Also, defaulting to unicode meant having to have a default encoding that became critical in many more places--for example, the standard streams (stdin, stdout, stderr) were now unicode by default instead of bytes, so there were now plenty of new footguns when the standard stream encoding that Python guessed was wrong and you had no way to change it. Not to mention that if the standard streams were pipes instead of ttys, unicode made no sense anyway.
An attacker who has write access to the database and gets feedback if a decryption was successful can still mount the standard padding oracle against CBC, because the first block acts as IV for the second block.
Absolutely! I meant to add it back, I originally had one front and center on the landing page. Lots of uses for it.
I'm from said area you claim to be from. If you use data as much as power users in a month you might well save money on starlink.

There's people importing dishes to use in cities in non covered countries today because of the condition of local networks in cities and the per bit costs

Check the steam download stats for top ISP's. It might surprise you the performance Delta with alternatives.

Telcos are complaining about roll out and spectrum costs. Some of them couldn't survive the 4G transition
Transparency helps a lot, but is not sufficient. Labor buyers can also be knowledgeable about their labor supplier's other options, so if they are the only game in town (such as in smaller towns/metros), they might choose to adopt a more take it or leave it attitude.
> Most of the grassroots level opposition is because developers lie, bribe and threaten their way out of honest development. I used to live in Cupertino (left 5 years back) and you had to be there to see the heavy handed tactics. Developers will promise one thing then once the contract was signed, bit by bit they will work with the city to roll back public benefits.

I live in the state capitol of Washington. I could not agree more. What is even more galling is how open it is. Because I've done a lot with public services here, I have a lot of people on my FB feed who are involved in city politics, and several of them are close personal friends with many of the larger developers in the city. Not just socializing and meet and greets, but "We're going on vacation to Vegas together" and such. And then people wonder why our city is so "developer-friendly".
I don't see what makes a compiler in the boot sector scarier in malware terms than any other program… would you elaborate?

Like, how does the malware benefit shipping its own source code and a tiny compiler at boot time, over just booting directly into the compiled malware?
Can’t say I’ve had many issues with Fastmail search at all. Google is known for search so they would naturally prevail for some searches, but Fastmail does just fine.
If you haven’t tested your backup you don’t have one.
> And probably my best proof that absolutely nobody involved understands it is the complete and total obliviousness to the double entendres. If the teachers realized how dirty it was they might think twice about teaching it. If the parents realized it, there would be protests. But nobody realizes it. Nobody has a clue. Nobody understands what is being said at all. They're just all pretending because if you don't Get Shakespeare you're a stupid dum dum who is drooling your stupid all over your stupid face.

My high school covered a lot of classical literature: from Greek Mythology to Shakespeare.

Its all sex and violence. I mean, Oedipus Rex literally murders his father and has sex with his mother.

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In any case, it should be taught because when you go to high-class museums, the naked statues in various mythologies will be staring at you... and unless you studied it you won't know anything.

Its high culture because its high culture. Low-brow sex jokes are bad, but "high-brow" sex jokes, well that's just the classics!!

Anyway, my high school English teachers were pretty explicit about these things. "Read this line. Okay, does everyone understand it? Please come up to the front and explain the meaning of this passage".

Uh huh... etc. etc. (a bunch of bad explanations from various classmates).

Teacher: "Yall are overthinking it. Its a sex joke. Okay, next passage".
I think they mean the space efficiency is optimal, since the battery is using all of the space available (as opposed to the counterfeit AirPod batteries which are a rectangular battery that leaves unused space in the round housing).
I'm curious why you don't like it for embedded - embassy has been an absolute delight for me thus far, and my primary complaint about it is just that it doesn't have the breadth of hardware support (yet?). It's been the thing that has redeemed Rust async for me, as otherwise, I tend to find the tension the author notes frustrating as well.
I recall a lot of it was driven by Kotaku, as well as the whole gang of cancel-culture twitter journalists.

It may be wrong, or right, but that is the narrative in my head around this. So it's probably the same in a lot of other disgruntled peoples' minds.
Hmm? I said the opposite - that the law is all we can rely on. Without the law, we’re left with might makes right, which is precisely how the world works.
Note: I have shortened the headline because I decided it was more important to note that this article was from 2016, than the country it occurred in, and it was over the character limit.
They stopped maintenance on some cell sites in anticipation of selling to 'anyone'.

Source: used to deal with permits for them in a metro area.
Neural networks approximate the statistical distribution of whatever they are trained on. There is no reason to expect that any neural network will perform well on out of distribution tasks, e.g. multi-digit addition and multiplication.
They aren't. This is overblown if you ask them to do simple math alone they are fine. And what they can't do they can do better with reflexion. It's not perfect, but they aren't terrible.
If you give them a calculator they will be much better.

A better answer: every time the model needs to predict the digit of a sum the model needs to solve the entire addition to know the carries, a bigger sum requires a bigger model to solve them.
or a restrained middleground of ¥
What is the application for the training? I don't need payment or job placement but damn if my software engineering abilities don't need a boost (EE/physics background)
> I said that the US at that point cared so little about honoring treaties with Native tribes that I doubted they'd bother formally amending a constitution to do so. That's not giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I see where you are coming from here, but I see actions like this as one of many that contribute to creating the environment where they can pursue the goal of violating the spirit of the law. They probably could have gotten away with much the same without any one anti-native action including this one, but the collective effect is a government system and electorate that endorses and upholds an unjust status quo.
I agree.

Instead of saying everyone should use Rust I would say outside of a limited set of circumstances no one should use C/C++ for new projects, especially C++ given how much hidden complexity it has which you have to "magically" know.

But that "limited set of circumstances" is sadly not that small and people which specialized only in C and/or C++ probably and understandably don't want to hear that either.

Rust isn't the best it's not bad but it's quite mediocre tbh. (like most successful languages; coming from someone who has used rust in production since not long after the 1.0 release). I think the reason it is so successful is that it has a different set of drawbacks then many of the other alternatives. Add to that that it managed to gathered enough momentum to have enough libraries and other support and similar to use it productive in many situations and lastly it's general purpose from server, over desktop, phones to embedding as well as the web through wasm.
Paul Graham wrote "31 Israeli and at least 3600 Palestinian children killed"