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> The CLI should be more efficient, as you can reduce the complexity: you may need extra flags to achieve the behavior you want, but you can then serialize that into a file (shell script) to guarantee the reproduction of the outcome you want.

yup, we do this where we can, but let's consider a recent example...

They are standardizing around k8slens instead of kubectl. Why, because there are things you can do in k8s lens (like metrics) that you'll never get a good experience around in a terminal. Another big problem with terminals is you have to deal with all sorts of divergences between OSes & shells. A web based interface is consistent. In the end, they decided as a team their preference and that's what gets supported. They also standardized around VS Code, so that's what the docs refer to. I'm pretty much the only one still in vim, I'm not giving up my efficiencies in text manipulation.

I don't disagree with you, but I do see a trend in preferences away based on my experience, our justifications be damned
Magic methods are not that "hard" to optimize (as long as you don't overload the add,etc operators of f.ex. the Number class in JS). I'm gonna use numbers and addition as an example here.

First off is the value model, the Python runtime handles ALL values as objects and that's fine for an initial naive runtime. All fast/modern language runtimes however use value models/encodings that fits "fast" values directly into machine register at the lowest level.

V8 has(had?) "small-ints" and objects (doubles,strings,etc) by setting the lowest bit in a register for pointers and otherwise dealing with them as numbers. So a+b when JIT'ed has a check (or stored knowledge from a previous opertion to elide the check) that both a and b are integers, if that is true then the actual addition is one single machine addition. if that ISN'T true then a more complex machinery is invoked that could methods like double-dispatch to see if more complex processing (like a "magic" method) is needed. This is how as JS engine handles that + behaves differently between numbers, strings, BigInt's, Date object's,etc.

(Other JS engines and LuaJIT use something called NaN/NuN tagging that also allows for quick passing of numbers w/o allocations and only a few small extra checks)

Re-implementing Python, you'd probably choose a small-int optimization (to better support Pythons seamless bigints) for values, put a runtime specific magic to the number add and make some kind of hook that detects writes to it from user code. Patching that from user code would trigger de-optimizations but for most applicataions it could continue running with optimized paths.

And even with larger objects (like heap-allocated BigInt's) a JS runtime can use inline caching to direct the runtime to fast direct dispatches, and then teams like the V8 team can detect commonly used objects that are often used and create fast-paths. A list addition for example will use common "slow" paths for dispatch but that's ok since it's an inherently slow operation that often involves allocations of some sort so the _relative_ overhead is fairly small in the big picture.

All this naturally assumes that you have the machinery in place, once in place though you can make simple code (numeric additions) fast while retaining magic for more complex objects (bigint, list,string,etc).

Tl;Dr; once you have that kind of optimizing in place, expensive processing can be allowed in special cases in slow paths thanks to type-guards, but 95% of the code will run the fast paths and having that handling in places with speed will give you most wins.
That's probably what everyone said when auto-complete was invented and IDEs were used. The actual code written in most cases isn't so important, the architecture, experience in building systems and debugging skills across a whole stack are what counts.
It would be my dream to make capturing 3D memories as easy and natural as taking a 2D photos with your smartphone today. Someday!
They are human beings just like us. That doesn't make their society just like any other society.
The FCC originally didn't want to include fixed wireless or satellite internet for RDOF consideration, so from that fact alone I believe they were intending it to be fiber optic. A fiber plant is pretty immutable, even if you end up upgrading the things connected to the fiber for higher speeds. Once it's buried, it's pretty reliable (unless a passing herd of excavators get hungry and smell the fiber buried underground) while a satellite system is hard to upgrade and subject to the unpredictability of space. For example, mission Group 4-7 deployed 49 satellites and a geomagnetic storm killed all but 10 of them.

The risk is just much higher with satellites than with buried fiber. If the FCC is trying to build more permanent networks, fiber in the ground is much more permanent.
Here's my prediction: 2025 predictions by the Amazon CTO will not be written by the Amazon CTO, but by an LLM.
If you've been over there lately, it's more like they're converting a zombie-apocalypse mall into a Googler campus.

It was already dirty and decaying pre-pandemic, but now it looks exactly like something out of 'The Last of Us'.
The longer you live, and the more things you do, the more you realize that checks are still alive and well. You still need checks for:

Charitable donations - Many charities maximize every penny, and electronic contributions eat into that.

Paying my accountant - Good accountants make every penny count, and aren't interested in tithing from their revenue to credit card companies.

Tipping the paper boy

Tipping the doorman (Though recently, I've switched to cash for this, as it looks better in a Christmas card)

Business license renewal in certain cities

Some of my recent real estate transactions have required checks to be written to various local authorities, county clerks, etc.

Making IRS payments without a fee

Paying the gas bill. My gas company charges $5+ to pay by credit or debit card.

Paying the rent. My building's management company charges $20 + a percentage to pay by debit card, or $50 + a percentage to pay by credit card. If I pay my bill with a check, there's no surcharge. If I pay by credit card, I have to pay another $113.

Paying the electric bill. The electric company charges $5+ to pay by credit or debit card.

Passport renewal fee. Renewing a passport by mail in the United States *requires* a check or a money order.
A lot of good feedback in this thread that is making me reconsider my opinion, but to answer this specifically, no. I didn't have much of a thought on economic theory until I started frequenting this message board and I was enamored by the liberties offered by the free market as spouted by highly rated HN posters, as well as essays and long-form articles that have been highly upvoted on this site.
I mean this isn’t too surprising that smaller models do better. I imagine transformers are as prone to overfitting as any statistical data model. Also there is probably some selection bias: bigger models are more expensive and there are just less people training and iterating with them
You can use apps from F-Droid without flashing your phone. The only apps I have from the playstore are apps for a few financial institutions, otherwise it's all F-Droid.

And you don't need to be hackerman to do this, I told my retired parents "you should check out F-Droid" and they did. Now they recommend F-Droid apps to me.
In quantum mechanics the act of observing always disturbs the observed; it's reasonable to call these disturbances 'senses' in the copenhagen interpretation of reality.
Oh absolutely!
If you mandate that it has to be ordered to fit from the production facility, then yeah it's probably safer.
Is a pouch/duckbill style N95 mask adequate for your work? I find them much more comfortable.

Or a PAPR if your job is willing to pay for one.
I did a project with some of the Adept people. Very disorganized and chaotic. There were definitely people pulling in different directions. Made it very difficult for me and I'm glad it's over.
SICP.

I will never forgive my college professors for not teaching this to me. Many years later, when I discovered SICP on my own, I recognized that my high-school CS teacher wanted expose me to this. I was too young at the time to understand. Bummer.

SICP is about managing complexity.
you might like "Without You There Is No Us," a memoir by a foreign national hired to work at a boarding school for the children of the NK party elite
I created my own guide after reading too much books: Simplify IT, The art and science towards simpler IT solutions , it’s cc-by on https://nocomplexity.com/documents/reports/SimplifyIT.pdf

I also keep a very sort overview of imho good resources on Problem Solving Methods at https://www.bm-support.org/problem-solving-methods/
I remember when I first started using ChatGPT, at one point I said out loud "Everything is changed, forever" and some time after that I said to myself, "Google is done". And I said the latter because this reminded me of when Google first hit the scene in the early 2000's). Google crushed all the others, I think Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, and Yahoo! Directory. And ChatGPT tech feels exactly like that again, but 20 years apart.
Is there any recourse for users?
No I'm not. In the smartphone case, you've bought your iPhone, but you're only allowed to "furnish" it with items from the Apple App Store. If you don't like the Apple App Store, you're screwed. You have to sell or ditch your iPhone, and everything you've bought for it becomes worthless.

In the Walmart case, you've bought your house. Presumably up until now you've mostly relied on Walmart to furnish it, and to buy groceries, etc., etc. Walmart disappears. Your existing furnishings are fine and still work. You can buy more furnishings at other stores, and they will work just fine in your existing house, with your existing furnishings. You can buy groceries at another store, and consume that food just fine in your existing house. Also consider that Walmart has online ordering and ships things; if you really want to continue to get some items from Walmart, you can still do so.

Sure, if you're unwilling to take the entirely reasonable step of finding alternatives to Walmart, I guess you'd have to sell your house and move to a town that still has a Walmart. But that's... a pretty ridiculous course of action to take, honestly.
Cybersecurity Isn't Special
> Most billboards are from [inter]national corporations.

You literally made that up, because that's just plain false.
I think what's funny about these videos is they aren't exactly dependent on advances in computing, but in display technology and network bandwidth. I've been annoying people for years by pointing out software is often the easiest part of all of this, and anyone doubting that should attempt to build a physical device, let alone a state of the art one.

Really the canary in this particular coal mine was when Silicon Graphics hit the wall in the late 90s. They were the epitome of pushing this dream that with visual computing everyone will be able to leverage their own intelligence that much more, leading to a better world, and it just doesn't seem to happen - we all just use it to distract each other instead. In the world today you have SGI level graphics in everything, and yet the applications of it are so mundane. For example, you don't see people doing finance visualizations in immersive 3D, we don't see people using VR for Minority Report style interfaces even though they are now viable, and even the Mac Finder is no longer spatial. Ultimately I think our culture has lost hope in the whole idea of visual intelligence.
Well if you want to really dig into the numbers here and get down to the gnat's ass of uselessness, Simington was confirmed with a 49-46 vote which means that less than 50% of the Senate agreed with him being on the Commission and hence he shouldn't even serve because he couldn't garner a majority of Senate approval. So, while 40% of the Commission disagreed with the decision, we should recognize that 20% of that 40% comes from someone undemocratically serving on the Commission and hence should be ignored. Meaning that, in actuality, only 25% of the democratically appointed Commission (1 out of 4) disagreed with the decision, not 40%.

All of that to say: this whole point you're making about "40% disagreed" or "20% disagreed" because the decision wasn't unanimous is really fucking dumb. The decision by the Commission is the decision, it doesn't matter how many dissents there are.
It was $1.5B per launch. But that figure keeps going up as they have to amortize even more development cost into each launch, and the total number of launches remains constant or even drops.
> older machines

Anything from the 80s/90s isn't really worth supporting. We gotta draw the line somewhere.
Comparing generative AI favorably to crypto is an odd choice, given that crypto and blockchain are the poster children for "massively overhyped tech that led to absolutely nothing."
Do you need position data to go along with the photos or just the photos?

For VR, there’s going to be some very weird depth data from those reflections, but maybe they would not be so bad when you are in headset.
Can a transformer represent y = x^2? Read my paper and find out.
I recall seeing stuff about this in California, but I think that was more about people polishing the big slabs, this seems more about masons installing them?

But really terrible stuff, I know that's who the article focuses on, but it's just intrinsically, like mostly guys in their late 20s and 30s. If they have families, the kids are gonna be young, and then their lungs are just shot.

I don't remember if there was a water conservation angle to it, but there was discussion of using water for some measure of dust suppression, and they just didn't have it.

So is this basically what we would call quartz countertops in the states? I can't say that I've heard the term engineered stone.
Preaching to the choir but feels like this stuff should be phased out yesterday. The PPE is almost beside the point, though it feels lower h hyprocrite to me maybe because its closer to home. There's so many resources that inflict a toll e.g. metals coffee palm oil, but you don't think about them since the people are halfway around the world.
For my experience so far, the color passthrough on Q3 is good enough for gaming, where you don't really need to read anything too closely, but not good enough to use it at the desk for long periods of time.

And actually the passthrough is okay for that too, it's more that it still feels like the screens need to be a bit higher resolution for the Immersed app to be comfortable long-term over my existing desktop and ultrawide monitor.

It's nice to play ping pong or that shooting at fuzzy ball creatures demo game that came with it and be able to chat with my wife or look down at the dogs as they run by and be able to see them well enough. Looking forward to seeing what other mixed reality games come out later (I'm planning to make something myself at some point also).

I'd still love for it to be better, but I'm still pretty happy with it as it is right now. Apple Vision Pro I suspect will be much, much better, but I can't justify its price tag.
Xbox cloud gaming via GamePass is the sleeping giant that is just hiding in plain sight.
> Some Palestinians simply gradually converted religion with during varying colonization, first to Christianity during Roman and Byzantine colonization, then to Islam during Arab and Ottoman colonization and today, most Palestinians are Muslim while Christian minority exists. Prior to 1948 there were even still Jewish Palestinians. Jesus Christ him self was even a Palestinian Jew.

There was no Palestinian identity prior to 1960. One can easily confirm this for themselves - nobody "met a Palestinian man" prior to this time in any recorded media. People are free to identify however they like, but all people living in this areas were simply Jews, Arabs, or other groups.

Talk about Palestinians prior to this time is part of the same conspiracy theory as the nakba and Jews being from Europe.

> While this is happening, some Jews—instead of converted—migrated from Palestine to Europe, where they were persecuted for centuries.

Kind of? After the Bar Kochba revolt, the Romans pushed the Jews out and renamed Israel (then split into Israel and Judea) into Syria Palestinea, after the Philistines (who were Greek).

> I—and others—consider Zionism to be a specific case of the more general European colonial enterprise.

You're wrong. You can't colonise your own country. Islam converting some Jews when the arabs colonised the area in the seventh century doesn't change that.

Which also begs the question - why is arab colonisation acceptable but 'European' (but actually not Eupopean, as Jews are from Israel) colonisation not acceptable?
NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft Is Speaking Gibberish
But that's not pure go, that's C transpiled to go, but even the transpilation is using OS specific and CPU-specific unsafe code.
Works fine for serious discussions away from memes in likely the most meme-y community, see https://ethresear.ch
What's unfriendly in their tone?
I don't still understand what risk push notifications represent here. Google & Apple maintain a list of all your apps, anyway. Any government can easily subpoena that list without having to put in much effort or analyze push notifications.
Honestly, a huge innovation in the quality and comfort of respirators would be a massive safety revolution.

If we can make earbuds comfortable enough so that people can wear them 8 hours a day, there's got to be something to do for breathing.
Thank you, TIL!

I will admit I was briefly even more confused reading that the "west coast" model includes New Jersey (an east coast state) and the "east coast" model includes Stanford (a west coast university)... but whatever lol.
I have lately been asserting that so much of computing interfaces is essentially materialized views into a database. Whether that database is relational or not really doesn't matter. Aggregation rollups and flat data entry are easy to see in that world with transformation from the flat data store that users directly write to into somewhat normalized backend systems that are all constantly running jobs to materialize the views that the rest of the systems use.

To that end, I heavily stress that there is no single "data as data" view of any data in the system. It is all a transformation of some sort from somewhere.

This is not to say that I disagree with your general statement. I would stress that the same "data" can have multiple representations in the "data" world. (This is not uncommon for outside of programming, either. Easy to consider that 1/3 is .33333... or 3.3...e-1, etc. Canonical formats for any data item are things you have to work to build, they do not come for free.)
I made a simple web site to easy share photos and videos with my elderly parents (early 90's).
They are not tech savy, and we live in different countries so it is rare when i can show them in person new snap of the family...
They don t use facebook and get confused easily if i share photos throught whatsapp.

It is a simple interface, read-only (so they don t delete photos/videos from their devices as they have done already) and also private.

My extended family ia using it as well.

I might turn it up as a saas product but needs to find the time...

Https://m.emori.es
In the next update, they are going to demo Optimus giving foot massages. Can't wait!
I wonder if the satellites fly in a pattern that repeats every 24 hours...
Your comment came across as defending the position that Apple is in the wrong for not allowing iMessage to be accessible from all platforms, my crude definition of "the aggressor" my apologies if that is not how you meant your comment to come across.
No. They are all pseudo garbage Edgar Cayce style nonsense. Just look at his previous year predictions.

This is the problem with this generation of leet coders. They have become too soft and put people like this dude and trends on a pedestal.
On the topic of AI, you've brought up some valid points, and I understand the skepticism, especially given the AI hype cycle. However, there's also plenty to get excited about beyond the marketing gimmicks.

Consider the recent Google demo. It was recreated and, while still fun and impressive, it's definitely not ready for commercial use. You can see it at https://sagittarius.greg.technology. This demo is a preview of what's to come, and I think it's important for us to stay open-minded.

I believe that in 2024, we're going to witness a significant expansion in what's possible with AI, while costs decrease. Increased contributions in the open-source community will likely fuel another wave of startups and new applications.
>Phase 1: Will provide up to $16.4 billion
>Phase 2: Will provide at least $4.4 billion

When it says "at least $4.4 billion" that leaves the door open for phase 1 fund rollover. We'll see eventually. Maybe Starlink can get some money in phase 2.

1. https://rdof.com/rdof
The last time I speced something like this, they wanted exact measurements and the result arrived in exactly that shape and size. So I think you're right.
Very nice to see LLaVA there, IMO it's one of the last puzzle pieces for a proper open source infrastructure in AI (e.g. filtering/classification after something like artspew).

A bit surprised about common crawl, is the financial cost there due to the massively bloated scale of the modern web they're (presumably) still trying to crawl?
Good news for me since I started development on a Quest 1 game 4 months before the Quest 2 came out, and am damn near finally going to release it right after the damn Quest 3 comes out!
When I clicked this it took me straight into a page with code and an explanation with a bunch of assumed knowledge. It's not very self-explanatory.

When I came back here, it the additional context of your text post made everything make sense. Can I recommend that you start with that on the page itself? Even a quick explanatory modal with a "don't show this again" checkbox would help a lot.
I don't undertand why there is not a better alternative in US, like a bank transfer/wire. In the EU, these transfers are often free at most banks, or at most, they incur a fee of 1 or 2 euros.
I’ve watched a contractor cut holes in a countertop in the field. They did it wet. I’d still wear safety glasses if I were doing this, but IIRC there was no dust.

I’ve never seen someone cut a countertop on site. They do it in a shop. (Why didn’t Australia instead ban all countertop cutting in shops that doesn’t use dustless tools?)

Hmm, I just looked it up. Home Depot sells the tool for under $30.
> the free market would have...

With the exception of vivid imaginations, there is no free market to speak of.
It has exactly the same drawbacks as photogrammetry in regards of highly reflective surfaces.
To be fair, someone who wants 'the market' to determine when people stop dying from a provably dangerous product doesn't give a steaming crap about the poors impacted.
You have to be on good terms with people high up.
Ok literally none of his predictions have any merit. They are absolutely bullshit. My bullshit detector has not gone higher this month. No wonder he is the CTO of Amazon. All of these companies are on their downhill dump.
I feel for the guy running this program:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardkummer/
Chief Digital Officer at General Motors

I can't imagine he has a large budget or a fancy allure to hire a team of software engineers that can pull this off well enough. I could be wrong...
Can ChatGPT translate a whole book now? Without too much inconvenience