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> If I include the time for Julia to start up and compile the script, my implementation takes 354 ms total, on the same level as Mojo's.

I don’t think the article mentions it explicitly, but I suppose the timing is from Julia 1.10: as far as I can remember, this kind of execution time would have been impossible in Julia 1.8 even to run a simple script.

Bravo, Julia devs. Bravo.
There was some movie I watched as a kid where the password was "remember" but, ironically, I can't remember it now. At the time I thought it was clever, nothing I had to log in to actually matter, but a few years later I decided to change it.
I am not at that stage of life and have a few question.

What was your biggest concern about school? That they would become involved in bad behavior? Or that they wouldn’t be educated?

My experience from public school is that it’s basically worthless. Could you treat it as social time and make up for the school in your own?
Depending on the code I've seen performance increases above 100x in some cases. While that's not exactly the norm, benchmarking Rust in debug mode is absolutely pointless even as a rough estimate.
Current air pollution levels isn’t indicative of lifetime or especially childhood exposure.

Leaded gas for example has seen a huge decline, but was still a thing when current 70+ year olds where young. Similarly, current developing economies where very different 50 years ago.
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Subject needs correction to "Tesla’s Slide Has Investors Wondering If It’s Still Magnificent"
Sure but do you actually need the absolute best people around? An average company probably doesn't need exceptional developers. If you're not a tech company and you don't have an extremely challenging setup, your survival as a company doesn't rely on exceptional IT skills. You can do a lot with less than 10 virtual machines, any decent web app framework (Spring? Laravel?), and a version control system. Even apparently insane requirements are entirely reasonable: 100 thousands transactions per day is... 1 TPS. Make that 10 TPS to adjust for peaks. Unless you're doing extremely complex queries, you can definitely handle 10 TPS with reasonably limited resources.

Meanwhile, cargo culting and FOMO leads companies to adopt tech stacks, interview styles,... that make sense for FAANGs and other unicorns, but not for your average setup.
I remember when on-site interviews were an hour and that was it. All this stuff companies do now is insane. If a person isn't performant, you'll know within 30 days, but you'll never know by interviewing them.

I haven't had to cold interview in 20+ years. I hope I never have to based on how it works now. I get all my jobs from previous colleagues. Companies are closing the door to a lot of great talent based on this silliness, but they'll never learn.
Hi Tom,
I'm a big fan of my rm2, too -- and am writing to respond to this:

> "I’d also love a more formal diary / daily entry system. Kind of like Obsidian’s daily notes. Some kind of date-based notebook inside the Remarkable would be rad (even if it doesn’t sync with your actual calendar!). A daily journaling / diary / planning format would be great. (Yes, right now you can select a day-planner template, but you can’t then see them in a calendar view - the date isn’t a foundational element of the note)."

Take a look at https://hyperpaper.me
which has been transformative for me. Instead of using a static background template, it generates a (customizable) interactive PDF. This -- crucially -- means it supports navigation, eg jump from the month calendar view to your daily note page.
I think this professor has lot the plot by pinning this most recent decline on COVID and whatnot. This has been a much longer decline.

The pandemic and social media on phones are not the reason long form content is dying, though if one of those is to bear responsibility it would be social media. But it’s the death of individual passion in the teaching professions at the lower grade levels that is the direct result of common core that has a major, ongoing role in the disengagement of students from school.

It’s remarkable to sit and work with my teenagers on their homework these days. Almost all of their assignments are readily referenced online in common flash cards and study guides, and so much of the homework is droll repetition. But what strikes me is that there is no relief like there was in my time. There is no “now read chapters 3-7 of this book” in any of her homework. The passages, when there is reading, is assigned by packet and accompanied by some packaged lesson that requires you to fill in the blanks on the point of the reading, it’s key characters, and it’s learned themes and elements. It is perfect educational material put together by panels of experts and crafted to achieve the highest standardized level of understanding for most students.

And it’s incredibly, sincerely uninspiring and frequently boring.

I often spend time with my kids talking to them about subjects like ancient history, philosophy, writing, poetry, math and science in ways that are stimulating and it’s a constant refrain, “I wish school were this interesting.” We pick a theme a few times a week for dinner and have discussions with friends and family on that subject. Recently this has included subjects like demographics, geology, quantum mechanics, deep space research, sustainable energy, etc. Anyone can pick the subject.

School fails to be interesting, and we are in one of the better schools in our area. The kids are bored to tears and the format of school is incredibly unpleasant for kids that actually want to learn. This school won’t even let the kids take college classes and apply them, despite being less than five minutes from a UC and 20 minutes from a junior college. They can’t give me a good explanation as to why: they just say it’s against their policy.

So, we do our best to keep kids interested in reading and learning, but it’s fighting against their mandatory education to do so. And I really think the school, despite their best efforts, is failing these kids.

And I blame common core. More than anything else. When I sit down with teachers the better of them confide sometimes that they are really not happy with how they have to teach, but they have to teach that way and have little flexibility in customizing things in their classrooms.

They have become “presenters” of material developed far away in academic laboratories, and while they are still teaching they are far removed from any innovation in curriculum. And without that control, they really aren’t able to overcome the gigantic bureaucracy of the educational apparatus.
Awful advice in the legal section. I hope the other areas are better.
One group of scammers got scammed by another group of scammers. So what.
4D Maze Game
Google engineer: AI is a serious risk to our business (2018)
4K UHD remuxes are basically straight rips of the source Bluray, hence the high bitrate and file size.

There are even hybrid remux releases where multiple sources (e.g., WEB and Bluray) are fused together to get the absolute highest quality possible.
Google Bard also gave a clear answer:
https://imgur.com/a/8HGivir
The flaw in the argument is the assumption that Directors were more adept than Individual contributors. Most dev shops have this problem as folks further away from the IC work , the least they can anticipate the problems
Well, that is the problem.

Time and "Decreases cognitive load".

We really trust scientific papers to have done the leg work. If it is in a respected peer reviewed publication, then we can trust it and then build on it.

We can't all individually reproduce every study.

I really fear for the future.

Because already there are tons of garbage studies being faked by AI flooding the world. It will become very difficult to know anything.

My only beef here is that it is not isolated to social sciences. HN really piles on social sciences while having a blind spot for STEM. Right when neuroscience and AI are converging and both sides need to have more understanding.

Edit:

at Minute 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TghURVC6Y
Agree with this. Maybe "extreme introverts" will have a tough time as leaders, but moderate ones probably have a lot of advantages. On top of the ones you listed, they tend to be better listeners, reading both people and situations better, having higher empathy (https://thrivedowntown.com/what-is-an-introvert-personality/...)
Depending on what features you want (I'm not sure how it is with, say, streaming outside your LAN) Jellyfin works pretty well for me and is extremely simple to set up.
In my experience, the most effective way to minimize the odds of a company never responding is to identify someone who works at that company who either you know personally (best) or they know someone you know and you ask for an intro. This allows you to skip the online application black hole. As a corollary, invest in your network and keep good relationships with former coworkers.
Was looking for Yoda bit, saw they named him MINCH !
> There are different types of value: scientific value, historic value, economic value, sentimental value, costly signaling value. Also wealth portability / wealth hiding / tax evasion value. Art has more than one type of value.

I (and many others) value art not only for its economic, historical, and scientific value, but because I admire the ability of exceptional human beings. I want to see Michelangelo's statue of David and be awestruck at how a human being could carve the 17 foot (5 meter) tall likeness of a man out of a solid block of marble with just a hammer and chisel. If you believe human produced art is valuable then you should care about verifying whether or not a human actually produced it. You don't have to value the same things I do, that's just my opinion.

> many still play chess despite machines mastering that game

This is a perfect example. Magnus Carlsen suspected that his opponent Hans Niemann cheated by using AI to assist him in a chess tournament. This was a scandal precisely because people value the human element of chess. If the provenance of work didn't matter, people wouldn't care whether or not Niemann was using AI. Just like the author of the article didn't enjoy having her work credited to a chatbot, Niemann probably didn't enjoy having his work credited to a chessbot (if he's indeed innocent).

> When you are unwell do you seek medicine? What does medicine say you are? Are you not a biochemical machine?

I'm not sure what this passage accomplishes besides a redefinition of terms. Despite all my talk about the value of communication — I'm not actually interested in pedantic quibbling over English semantics. If it really bothers you, feel free to mentally replace all instances of the word "machine" with "non-biological machine" in my writing.

> Today our minds exist in one form. In the future, might our minds exist in other forms? If you had the power to upgrade various parts of yourself with better parts would you reject this?

No, I'm not a transhumanist. I believe in using technology to help people with differing abilities (e.g. I'm fine with cochlear implants), but I'm not planning on amputating my limbs to replace them with robotic prosthetics. I'm one of those millions of weird humans who will probably tune in to the Super Bowl today, despite the fact that machines with wheels could probably outclass the human competitors.
> the levels only increase the speed of the obstacles and not their density.

But your speed is the same at every level.

Instead of looking at the width of each obstacle, instead look at the amount of space that the obstacle covers during the time you are in its path. If it moves faster then it covers more space during the time it takes you to cross, so it is effectively wider.

Imagine if the obstacles moved so fast that they crossed from one side of the screen to the other in the time it takes you to move up one line. You would never be able to pass any obstacle.
Wow, watching that video is wild. It's the closest I've ever found myself to thinking, well that's just magic. The way it responds to being pushed around, it's almost like experiencing magnetism for the first time, only now it's as if it's a whole new force. It almost seems like it's alive, actively maintaining its equilibrium and resisting changes from its environment. Throw a literal tomato on it and it just adapts, not unlike the way our bodies do to changing loads.

I can't wait until smaller mass-produced versions are sold on Amazon for $50, however many years from now that is! I would just love to play with something like this.
Apparently it had Google's money backing, for what it is worth.

I never believed into it, because Swift is as relevant as Objective-C outside NeXT/Apple's platforms, and not the kind of programming language that the research community cares about.
Yes, and no. Mostly the issue is (as in many other countries) a tendency to assume children should be brought up by women, together with inadequate systems to enforce access after divorce.

On the other hand I have come across many cases where the less affluent former spouse (especially one who did not work while married to look after the children) does not get a fair amount of child support and these are mostly women. Not a problem in my case as I was the one who was earning and the primary parent.

The biggest criticism I would make is not of the courts, but society and the police do not take domestic abuse of men seriously. They also do not take emotional abuse such as controlling behaviour seriously despite it now being a crime. This is pervasive - the Crown Prosecution Service classifies domestic abuse as "violence against women and girls" and then mentions in passing that men can be victims too (40% of violent abuse victims, in fact, but you would not know that from their manuals).
Peopleware doesn’t get the love it deserves these days. I mentioned tom demarco to my vp of eng at former gig and they clearly didn’t know wtf i was talking about…

When i was picking up some team lead responsibilities for the first time, it was the first book suggested by my then mentor who was an experienced manager.
I have second thoughts about it

The real intention of the police could be to respond to each call and swat just to assure that as many charges as possible are accumulated and billed to the culprit later.

Everything is reported and recorded so the police actions, that are torturing the victim, also dig the hole deeper and deeper for the criminal. The harm done is obvious and allow asking for damage compensations. At that level of reckless no judge could dismiss it as just child's play.

Keep swatting also reward the criminals that are watching. This is not necessarily a bad thing. To keep them engaged and interested on the game is a must for the police, that therefore increase their chances to complete patterns and chase them slowly one by one.
yes, but I do not think this is something that people really discusses rationally, either.
I.e. I doubt that couples who decide to go childless sit down and say "listen, if we have children our current life is over, just look at Jack and Laura - they disappeared from the Lindy classes and had to cancel their spa subscription".

It is probably both a subconscious thing that - along with other factors - will make you postpone the decision until it is either too late, or your spouse somehow puts you in front of an ultimatum.

As I said in another message I have living proof that things can work out fine among relatives and friends both, so I am sure that it could be done.
Neither me nor my MSO (Most Significant Other) were really into the idea of having children though, so we passed.
Yeah, I got the joke, and understood the parser.

It's just, the content length : content ratio is high - all I got out of it was you don't like the Mojo speed claim & genomics parsing is text parsing*

Don't take that the wrong way, I feel bad. It's just bad for me - I'm a mobile developer, so I was way out of my domain, I've barely written Python, Julia is a complete abstraction to me outside of HN. An alternative way to think about it is, I shouldn't have expected an in-depth analysis of Mojo.

* i mean, everything is bytes parsing, but it always tickles me when I find out other domains aren't castles in the sky, speaking an alien language
Pretty much yes. I expect the heavy lifting is just math.
> It's not my job to maximize the company productivity.

It literally is.
Is there something like this for iPad?
It’s quite amazing how much you can do with a working self-hosted setup and a decent amount of storage. The open source community around self-hosted services is stronger than ever.

A few of my favorite lesser known self-hosted projects are Audiobookshelf, Komga (comic/manga reader), and Kavita (ebook/comic/manga reader).
In my completely non-expert opinion, I think it would also be a hard dataset to normalize across mic sensitivities/auto gain control/time of day/weather/phone orientation/etc.,
even if you got a billion people to submit readings.

Still, there have been previous attempts at this:

2013:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/112756/noise-pol...

2019, with calibration:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...

2023, iOS only in the USA:
https://deohs.washington.edu/noise-across-america-study

There's a bunch more on Google Scholar, actually.
Not to downplay software engineering, but any project that mixes hardware and software together is always better and cooler in my opinion, great work!
I went to public school in California 50 years ago, it was 100% phonics.

The thing was, by the time I started school in the early 70's, I already knew how to read because my parents taught me at home - with phonics.

I still say the biggest effect on my attaining early literacy was growing up in a house full of books and people that loved to read.
I feel you have less empathy for a another worker and stressed that others are competing with you

It’s ok for enterprises to pay different prices/salaries in different locations yet individuals don’t get to do the same is a flaw in how we are taught what we can ask for

We are trapped in the matrix , need a red by pill
I got to know the developer of Fyrox, MrDimas, and commissioned him to implement blend shapes (morph targets) in the engine, as they had been missing. He's an amazing engineer and got it done quickly.

I then took the same task to Bevy. There are so many more people in the community. One of them stepped up right away and I commissioned him to implement similarly missing blend shapes. Same excellent engineering and delivery, but there were thirty times more people asking and involved in the process.

Bevy has community. Fyrox is a one man show.

Fyrox was ahead of Bevy a little bit, but Bevy has taken the time to develop community and has made much more important and sound architectural choices for becoming a much bigger project and engine.

If I had to recommend either, it'd 100% be Bevy. No hate or dunking on MrDimas, either, because he's an amazing engineer and has built something incredible. But Bevy absolutely appears to be the future, and their community is not going away.
I don't buy this. No way Cagliari is way louder than San Francisco.
there are documented cases of small groups of investors immediately buying new housing stock just to flip it for a profit on some small time scale. rinse and repeat
For some additional perspective on the ed biz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/new-ma...
Sometimes taking a big challenge can accelerate learning. As long as you're not giving up ;)
Economically, if the Amsterdam developer is providing the same value as the bay area developer - you should probably pay the them the same. While it's true that the local market for Amsterdam developers is set lower, you're building a global company and competing with other global companies. Sure you can get a discount now on Amsterdam developers but eventually a competitor will offer them something closer to their value or they will leave to do their own thing.

I think we'll see the strongest companies pay location-agnostic prices for talent. Ultimately, it's about value delivered. If I'm Gitlab with a likely large encumbered ruby codebase and I want to sell to large enterprises that care about performance and reliability, I'm probably gonna pay this person more than 120k EUR a year. Most engineers who care about performance, type-safety, and reliability have no interest in Ruby so the market rate of that skillset is definitely higher. Is it bay-area 500k/year high? I dunno, but I imagine that the strongest companies who want top-talent will probably need to tie their comp to value delivered rather than location or they'll lose their talent to the companies that do.
Dockerized Text-Based Web Browser (Lynx)
This one seems to have completely open source hardware / firmware / software:

https://www.bitcraze.io/products/crazyflie-2-1/

https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/repository/

It was mentioned in this IEEE Spectrum article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor-2667196800
Springboot's dependency injection, auto configuration and yaml configuration system is a value proposition that I find hard to beat. I find it's fairly effortless to build almost any kind of backend software, and if I want something "lightweight" I probably wouldn't use java in the first place.

While that's my pragmatic view, to be less critical, I am glad to see a project that provides a robust and elegant API for building rest services in Java.
I'm curious about the day to day environment the Tsimané live in since I can see a relationship between dementia and increased accidental deaths in more dangerous environments. Let's say you need to walk 5 miles a day through a predator infested jungle for water. Getting lost one day due to an episode of dementia could easily kill you. Same for eating a poisonous plant or drinking water from the wrong source or even getting a simple cut that becomes infected due not paying attention. The study used 65 as a cutoff which is before most physical deteriorations so individuals are likely still self-reliant.
Also no sign of "I am your father"
It is crazy because it dilutes the interview experience and you never know when it's going to end and when they're going to decide (and actually tell you).

And why should you talk to all those people? Talk to the tech folks, then to the CTO, then the founder, then what, the VC investors, the whole board? Can the CTO not describe the company vision and how IT fits in that picture? It does smell of a lack of vision or an inability to delegate.
thanks for submitting :) if anyone has any questions, lmk!
It also shows you a list of movies, shows and anime in the app and lets you search for one without having to go to a separate website.
How Boeing Lost Its Way [video]
Look on page 117 of the PDF (the paper says 113):

> Vader: You're very good, Luke. But I'm twenty years older and stronger than you in the use of the Force. You haven't a chance with me... any more than your father had.

This draft was written before they came up with the idea that Vader could actually be Luke's father!
People are often surprised to learn one of those famous Nazi book burning photos was of the collection at the era's equivalent of a queer center. That fact is rarely conveyed along with the narratives about censorship that go with it.

It's an example of how even being factual can be misleading. It's a fact that they were Nazis doing censorship, but the facts that are omitted reveal a lot about who's sharing it: either they don't know, or they don't want you to know.