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If you haven't read "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman" yet you should.

Both hilarious and fascinating.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22Surely+you%27re+joking%...
Coqui-ai was a commercial continuation of Mozilla TTS and STT (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS).

At the time (2018-ish), it was really impressive for on-device voice synthesis (with a quality approaching the Google and Azure cloud-based voice synthesis options) and open source, so a lot of people in the FOSS community were hoping it could be used for a privacy-respecting home assistant, Linux speech synthesis that doesn't suck, etc.

After Mozilla abandoned the project, Coqui continued development and had some really impressive one-shot voice cloning, but pivoted to marketing speech synthesis for game developers. They were probably having trouble monetizing it, and it doesn't surprise me that they shut down.

An equivalent project that's still in active development and doing really well is Piper TTS (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper).
My personal feeling is they're moving costs around so that egress has a big margin and other items have a smaller or potentially negative margin.

I've seen this at other providers. We did a competitive pricing exercise at my last company, and our overall cost went down, but the mechanism was per hosts costs went down significantly and egress costs went up significantly, and the per host cost decrease outweighed the egress cost increase.

It still doesn't make sense to charge for ingress, because everybody knows that should be free, unless you're a residential ISP.
Why do feel Apple is going in the same direction as Microsoft? Do you think in 2026 Apple will be selling users data to advertisers and have spam search results show up in the Finder?
It tends to be middle class young women regardless of ethnicity (though typically white) who suffer the most mentally due to social media giving them anorexia. The idea that selfies harm young women has a lot of basis in reality.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/eating-disorders-...
Even if Slack doesn't IRC it is absolutely based on it, down to slash commands and channel name syntax.
I don't understand what you are looking for. There is no specific SQL query I know of that could not expressible in relational calculus in some manner. But that also has nothing to do with the discussion.

The discussion is about why SQL became the standard. Being first is not it. It wasn't first. It was second, but QUEL came along hot on its heels before SQL established itself. It was approximately another decade after that before SQL solidified dominance.

- Was there a specific technical reason to choose SQL over QUEL/LINUS?

- Was there a specific human reason to choose SQL over QUEL/LINUS?

- Was it just random chance and if we were to do it all over again we are just as likely to see QUEL/LINUS become the standard instead?
This is really cool and a great example of the upgrades to CSS. The benefit of JavaScript would be setting a state in localStorage to remember the light/dark value that was set, as yours does not remember what was set after a shift+f5 refresh of the site.
People expect LLM's to be folded into Office, and MS to command a premium for the real or perceived productivity boost.
The main philosophical question in my mind is when did we allow people redefine reality and when did the post truth society become the norm. There should be no debate over sentient software, yet here we are. This is the result of taking people seriously when we shouldn't.
Achieving budget neutrality with a policy that won't come into effect for 5 years, that people expect to be negated, is an "interesting" hack.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040212/http://bash.fi

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227/http://qdb.gr

https://web.archive.org/web/20060402/http://qdb.hu

https://web.archive.org/web/20040420/http://qdb.us
That is quite the note, thanks for the heads up!
Not seeing these bills would be incredible. Having them all covered in the same way would be fantastic. Instead, for us, states need to enact surprise billing laws since each provider can mysteriously be out-of-network despite working within a hospital that is in-network. The in-network concept is complete bullshit to start with, but then you have to have complete documentation of every person involved in whatever care you are getting.
A Statically and Dynamically Scalable Soft GPGPU
People keep reiterating this, but in practice one needs compute and bandwidth, especially outside of tiny context test prompts. On my 4900HS, mlc-llm vulkan is far faster than CPU inference on the same memory bus, with less cache, which wouldn't be the case if it was bandwidth/cache bound (since the CPU has far more cache as well).

My 7800X3D has 96MB of L3 and a golden-bin DDR5 overclock, but its absolutely dreadful for inference.
Sounds like the way hair salons and strip clubs are run in the U.S.
Enron was a special case when California first started their electricity market and made many mistakes in not having processes to take care of market manipulation. An entity deliberately and unethically putting a generator on outage to drive prices up is not what I'm referring to. I'm saying the reserve margins of baseload generation have shrunk.
That's not how knowledge works. Think of exams where you could have your textbooks and use them.
Server is better analogy. The wage you pay/owe the waiter is direct and (mostly) separate from meal, albeit informal with only shame as a deterrent for default.
When I was still a PhD student, my advisor lamented that he couldn’t find postdocs to hire because big tech was paying them more for the same role with minimal constraints. If that kept going for a while, I imagine it’d put pressure on at least some parts of academia (CS and engineering don’t expect you to do a series of postdocs like biology does, and pure math has their own system of seniority I only know a little about). The money dried up though.
Edit: my bad. Looks like browser cache was "helping out". Problem is resolved from my vantage point.
I ran one of many commercial ISPs in 1995 and we founded ours out of frustration with the available commercial ISPs before us.

AFAIK the first commercial ISP dates to around '89.

But I don't think the fact the internet once had restrictions on commercial activity really makes much difference to the argument above other than in the details, given the argument was broader than about the net.
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It's one thing to give the locally installed instance of the Outlook client your password, it's another for Outlook to send it in plain text to Microsoft's servers.
If I were to guess: famine+migration -> political instability -> nuclear war -> remaining fossil fuels difficult to access
I mean, I like some key tools they make: Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code come to mind. MSN Messenger was also a huge part of my life, literally spent a lot of time with my wife over MSN in our early years of knowing each other. Microsoft is a massive company, there's loads to hate and appreciate all at once.
I don't think it's clear at all if you're using the "New Outlook" app as opposed to web client. Traditionally, desktop email clients would handle credentials by directly using them to log in, not by sending them to a web service that logs in on their behalf.
I don't have the arrogance to assume I can become a domain expert in everything that happens. At the end of the day these people are dead. Killed by Israel. And the world's experts agree. One UN official explained how after previous conflicts they've engaged in post-hoc investigations to ascertain the accuracy of the Gaza health ministry numbers and found them accurate. It's unfortunate for Israel that the numbers make it appear that they're committing a genocide. There are any number of strategies Israel could employ other than indiscriminate mass slaughter. They'd rather deny the numbers than stop incrementing them.
If they are specifically bad in an area, with a very strong reputation, why should we assume that specific reputation would change to match the general reputation?

Also, I'm not familiar with any projections that are generally good. Collecting existing data? Sure they are good at that. But projection is an entirely different skill set and I have not ever heard somebody cite great projections from EIA.
They actually anticorrelate, significantly reducing the amount of storage required when paired.
> The industry standard

Pfft...

> for peering is paying the 95th percentile of egress or ingress depending on whichever is greater. Ingress is free for these clouds because egress > ingress overall

How about customers pay for actual usage, rather than some [fake] averaged-across-all-customers usage?
No ordinary filter should pass dust mite allergens (or pretty much any particle) just because it’s overloaded. Electrostatic precipitators will, but those are essentially worthless for residential applications.

Maybe the Coway throws the filtered air in a more useful place for your use case?

(Also, and this is utterly silly but I’ve gotten this wrong myself: the IKEA filters come with a plastic wrap on the filter. You need to open it up and remove the plastic. If you skip this step, you have a somewhat noisier than expected think that looks like a filter but provides no filtration whatsoever. Whoops.)

P.S. Azelastine is not new at all. What is new is “Astepro”, which is the same thing, plus sucralose, and it’s OTC. The version without sucralose can be purchased pretty much anywhere in the US with a prescription, as a generic or a name brand product.
Bill Gates, at time of IPO owned 49% of Microsoft.

If he hadn’t sold his stock, he’d be worth ~$1.5 Trillion

To put that into context, he'd be worth 6x Elon Musk (who's the current riches person-in-the-world)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-could-trillionaire....
> > is not compatible at all with AMD platforms

> it's always driver support.

Not necessarily, if it's an Intel module it might be a CNVi module instead of normal PCIe module, meaning it can only work on Intel platforms (because half of the WiFi hardware is actually within the CPU/chipset; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi for more information).
One of the most surprising things to me during the pandemic was the dramatic hiring spree that almost every major tech company engaged in at the same time. I was getting pings from different recruiters multiple times a month during this time, and I’m sure others were getting many more.

Today’s layoffs are a direct result of the irrational exuberance of that era.
The thing is, it'd fundamentally different from lasers that have timescale of microseconds or less. He mentioned "capacitor banks."

Launching 20 per day over a 10 minute span each is 200 minutes; you still need 12GW average over the day.

And you need an insane amount of storage-- if 12% of the energy comes directly from the power plant, you need to store 53 terajoules, which is about 60,000 tonnes of lithium batteries per daily shot. (It's more than that, because you're power/discharge rate limited, and it's going to wear out that minimum amount of batteries quickly).
That would solve some problems but not all; spam sites would be filtered out but also sites with good quality information that monetize with ads would also be filtered out. There is no silver bullet(one way solves all) for SEO/ad/affiliate spam.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240111074148if_/https://noyb.e...
I think its going to be a "revenues were up while costs were down - so we will continue this trajectory until it breaks" strategy.
> Those whole point of SEO is to score higher on ranking algorithms.

Which is why they typically make things worse for the end user.

Agree it's a coupled problem wrt ranking algorithm. SEO messes with the algorithms, algorithms change to account for it, lather rinse repeat.

More recently though, google make presentation changes not as simple as ranking, which made things worse. Which I think is what GP was referring to.
Tensorflow is open source on GitHub. What’s stopping AMD engineers from contributing with Pull Requests? A casual search through the open PRs shows nothing of interest being submitted by team red.
That game selection isn't an accident. They're all extremely popular and/or have a benchmark built-in.

Look at any third-party review and you'll find a very similar selection.
My anecdote with Turing: after a few sets of nonsense questions like the one you described, I was given a nonsense programming challenge. Pretty basic (email address validator), but the instructions said "the function must throw an exception if the email address is invalid" while the sample testcases actually checked that the function returned false (I also remember bad grammar but no other ambiguity).

Anyways, I changed the sample testcases so that they tested the function threw an exception for invalid inputs and didn't for valid ones. Which I probably shouldn't have done, because then Turing said I failed the challenge so they couldn't offer me any jobs, and I'd have to retake after 6 months.

...But then a while later, I get an email that I can retake the test due to "test environment issues" (maybe they realized the test was ambiguous, maybe it was just broken, I have no idea). At this point I already found a job.

Then they started spamming my email and eventually WhatsApp, so I blocked them.
Meetup has overwhelmingly been a net-positive for me over the past couple of years unlike most technology platforms these days. I've met some great people locally and felt much more in tune with my IRL community than I would have otherwise.

That being said, I've also been sad that Meetup appeared to be languishing as a modern web property. It really needs a "glow up" and general attention to UX so that it feels in line with other major local-based platforms such as AirBnB. It feels like nothing much has been done to improve Meetup since before the WeWork acquisition way back in the day, and if anything it's gotten cheesier with all the crappy ad popups.

Perhaps with a parent company that is squarely focused on software and design, Meetup can find its footing again and be that premier destination for all things local event communities. (Can we even talk them into adding ActivityPub support so Meetup's part of the Fediverse? A man can dream!)
yeah. although after a proper cage etc it's almost as expensive as a proper race car (although i guess the base is cheaper-ish)
> If needed, in sure we could get off oil in a matter of a decade or less...

I would be less optimistic as 80% of the energy used is fossil fuel (source: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...).

Everything that we wear (plastic) or eat (fertilizers, and farming, trucking) comes from fossil fuel. Oil is everywhere. It is going to take a while to withdraw from our addiction.

> We should have been off oil in the 80s or 90s after the crisis in the 70s...

Oil is a fr(e)aking miracle. It is virtually free (just drill), it is energy dense, easy to transport, it makes fertilizers which allowed to fed the planet with less fields, it makes plastic, etc.

The countries fortunate enough to have some in their underground, have a natural printing money machine.

But, it is a limited resource, and using it at the scale we have been doing in the past 100 years, is impacting the environment.

> but instead we just paid off powerful men in the Middle East with weapons and kicked the can.

I agree that we kept kicking the can. But fortunately (or unfortunately if we are not prepared) it will eventually come to an end. It takes million of years to produce oil, and we consume it faster and faster. There will a time, where we would not find the easy oil, and it would become more and more expensive to find. If we are not prepared, then chaos will follow (wars as the last countries that have access to oil will keep it for them, economies will collapse as worldwide trade will break, etc.)

Clearly the past 100 years have been golden thanks to oil. We need to build a future where oil would be less abundant and more expensive.
But there would be a shit ton more polio in the world, so I'll accept that tradeoff.
But it's occams razor that says its more likely to be in a wreck because he commutes on a motorcycle.
More appropriate comparison point would be something like Arc A580 which retails around $180 and is already dramatically faster than this igpu.
Is there active work being done on the DSA code recently?
I can speak as witness about other interview, the interview of a close friend, skilled in machine learning related technology, in fact he applied for that kind of job. He received a video with instructions to do an online test registered with very poor, really very poor audio quality by a guy with a very very strong asian accent. I transcript the instructions to help him to understand how to do the connection to the test platform, etc and, men, I wasn't able to understand every single detail, so I gave that video to a friend of mine from UK, he told me that my transcription was more accurate than the one he did.
Moreover, the test, IMHO, was bullshit , my friend has a math degree and master in ML related topics and they sent him a junior Python programming exercise, SQL related nonsense and other ridiculous tests like a script selected random questions totally unrelated to the job they was interviewing for ( or they was pretending to do). More than a serious interview that was like a candid camera prank.
A recent discussion on the same story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909220
I don't get it: a salary is a depreciable asset? I thought that only applied to actual tangible things that needed replacement on a schedule. I'll never understand accounting... and I'm increasingly thinking that's the point.
The disadvantage of single CCD is only half of available write memory bandwidth (using at least 1 computing thread on each CCD) [1].

[1] 16 B/cycle write vs 32 B/cycle read per CCD
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-7000-series-platform-...
>EVs make far more sense in Europe than America

As an European, no they don't. Europeans often use their cars for long travels cross borders for work, vacation or visiting relatives where public trasnportation doesn't serve them, and the lack or underdevelopment of charging infrastructre makes them viable only for people with their own house, garage and charger at home or for businesses which do short trips around town like deliveries or realtors. Everyone else has ICEs.
ostensibly

the need for MCAS in the first place is a major design flaw and results in additional failure modes that other aircraft do not have. the "fix" was to prioritize human inputs over MCAS, making these planes more vulnerable to human error. still worth avoiding IMHO.
Carpet bombing is what the allies did to Dresden. Carpet bombing is indiscriminate. For every bomb that israel drops there is a lawyer approving it. There is lots of damage, particularly in the north (which Israel did its best to evacuate before bombing), because Hamas had built military infrastructure virtually everywhere: under schools, UN buildings, under residential houses, hospitals, etc.

I'm not trying to say there has been little damage to Gaza. There's been lots. But that doesn't mean it's been carpet bombed. There's lots of damage because there was lots of military infrastructure.
We don't need cars. Everyone has a horse already.

Electric light? No thank you - I have all these candles already.

Progress doesn't stop because we think a problem is solved.
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solar is 10x cheaper than nuclear generation, but storage is 100x more expensive than nuclear.

Need a massive change in our understanding of storage costs to go 100% renewable.
irssi :)
I don't know whether commuting on a motorcycle or working for foreign intelligence to sabotage a hostile state is more dangerous.

Either one can cause what looks like a typical accident.
Yeah, lots of laptops have small wifi cards in them using a standard connector that are easily swappable (uses same connector as M.2 SSD's).
Apple is rarely first to release new tech. They watch and develop quietly in the lab, then release an implementation that everyone else seems to copy.

So far their approach has been different, but their last keynote mentioned ML countless times. We can only assume they have more in the pipeline, and it will run locally on-device, which seems preferable to all the data collection being done with most companies working on AI.
There's really one option.

Just leave the United States, if you can afford it.

There is a massive pool of men and women outside the developed world, with different ideas of dating, as well as a more unified center of family, and friends, though, many are more socially conservative and traditional compared to Americans.

Its up to you I guess, but don't pretend like the developed world is the entire world.
I encounter bugs around this semi-rarely, but most of my career has been building tools around data analytics. While it's rare that I encounter bugs tied to floating point it's frequent that I need to be aware of floating point math and if a float will be acceptable here. The rareness of the bug has more to do with it being a rookie mistake that won't make it past code review than "it doesn't matter" as the comment implies.
That's the magic of PLG. It's about building products that people love to use, not just buy. It's about empowering users to discover value on their own, not force-feeding it to them
The world has already learned from doing this mistake. Despotism is bad and listening to the above is how you get there.
also people don't realize how local Apple is. In a lot of countries you can't even access their services which decreases the value of their devices.
Or better yet, "We hired you to do some work" but at performance review time "tell us how you have made an impact"

Dear company, I did what you asked me to do. If my work doesn't have adequate impact, that is on you for planning poorly.
Those can be migrated piecemeal over time (and possibly never for those that you don't care about). Most webmail providers these days let you operate another mail account via their interface, so it is all completely integrated in a single app with no need to switch back and forth.
I remember several years ago when differentiable programming was an object of interest to the programming community and Lattner was trying to make Swift for Tensorflow happen[1].

I'm of the opinion that it was ahead of its time: Swift hadn't (and still hasn't) made enough progress on Linux support for it to be taken seriously as a language for writing anything that isn't associated with Apple. However, as a result, Swift now has language-level differentiability in its compiler. I'd love to see Swift get used for projects like this, but I suppose the reality of the matter is that there are so many performant runtimes for 2D/3D physics that there just isn't much of a need for automatic differentiation (and its overhead) to solve these problems. The tooling nerd in me thinks this stuff is fascinating.

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift
They mention this on in "Prior Art" https://peps.python.org/pep-0736/#prior-art

And it just makes sense to do it this way as

a) it is basically the same as in ruby, except that the long form in ruby uses a colon and python uses an equals sign

b) this syntax already exists in python for f-strings

But I agree x= looks a bit "unfinished" and erroneous while :x does not IMO, though I'm looking forward to do fewer keypresses if this gets released.
I'm providing perspective from non-IT/CS career (residential construction), which is booming for smaller trades (but not as a whole).

Being a homebuilder right now would not be enviable (because it is too expensive to build/buy right now).
> they need to provide non-blocking or near non-blocking performance within the availability zone

I see you've never tried GCP.
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