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David Friedman runs interesting slate star codex meetups periodically, where I've met a lot of interesting people. Recommended to attend if you would like to meet well-read people with all sorts of new ideas.
I don't think the rest of the world is filled with morons haha. The rest of the world is trying to improve their lives.

However, I think you missed part of what I was saying, which patio11 actually touches on.

The west, particularly America, is individualistic & meritocratic. This leads to a lot of self-interest & overall refines the system as a whole. It'll also spur competition in a free-market, as people leave to start competitors. Etc. This is in contrast to "salary men" in Japan.

When you have globalization, you have:

(1) The cheapest possible workforce will be used and will drive out competitors who have higher expenses (the west does)

(2) Those goods are then exported and corners can be cut because there's little direct risk.

(3) The companies themselves have no employees where they're selling their goods, so there's little feedback (besides profit) to employers.

(4) Innovation & competition is dramatically reduced. To compete you effective need a very cheap workforce & sell below the larger players (who already have scale).

The ultimate result ends up being, poorer & cheaper quality products, made by people who don't use the products. This actually increases the profit margin to corporations. Yet, it's ultimately a race to the bottom at that point. Anyone who attempts to produce a higher quality product has to be significantly more expensive, and often fails in the market. It's why most "high quality" brands have slowly been bought out by the more profitable (low cost) players, then their brand names are used like a skin suit (as their quality decreases).
I was thinking something irregular (accidentally typed symmetric in original comment) like in stone lifting, but with some rock climbing handles. Surprised something like that does not exist. Seems like it would be a neat training implement, especially if difficulty can be standardized. I like the idea of picking up stones, just in more commercially accessible and clean / less pain in the ass way. My original thought was something like Rogues rubber atlas vs traditional concrete cast atlas but stone shapped instead of ball shapped.
Surely you must be more outraged by male circumcision which occurs more frequently by orders of magnitude?
> ... the OP wrote a script with a loop.

Are you sure?

The article doesn't say anything about a loop, and the estimated usage by the Google responder makes it seem like the cost is from a single "SELECT *".
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Almost every single ISP I've worked with will let you put modem routers into "bridge" mode where it bridges the modem side to Ethernet and there's your mostly dumb modem pushing a public IP to whatever you plug in to it. Cable companies get sneaky sneaky and keep some wifi crap on for their cell phone plans though.
ChatGPT went berserk
Pleasantly surprised to see Predrag show up as a reviewer, but at the same time not at all surprised:

- The [Firebase technical screen](https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-firebase-interviewed-sof...) would have been much easier with something like this, as it was Just Another Optimization Problem™. Part of me wants to try it again with Picat!

- He's doing other very interesting things with programming languages, e.g.: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall
Both Canon and Nikon were sleeping at the wheel when GoPro and DJI both dominated the action/sports camera and drone business.
For those confused as to whether ETL or ELT is ultimately more appropriate for you… almost everyone is really just doing ETLTLTLT or ELTLTLTL anyways. The distinction is really moot.
Ok but I can already do it on desktop (and it's even easier on Android), it's only missing on iOS. So this point is kinda moot...

The encryption key is in cleartext on desktop and the SQLite db is right next to it: ~/Library/Application Support/Signal/config.json
That valuation of Twitter was just way too high. Even Twitter is worth like 1/4th of a Twitter.
I think this may have been ten years ago. During the era of 3DTV and curved displays.
Do not forget: https://www.amanithvg.com (I'm one of the authors, 20+ years of active development). Full OpenVG 1.1 API, CPU only, cross-platform and analytical coverage antialiasing (rendering quality) as main feature. The rasterizer is really fast. I swear ;)
At Mazatech we are working to a new GPU backend just these days.

AmanithVG is the library on which our SVG renderer: https://www.amanithsvg.com is based. All closed source as now, but things may change in future.

I will do some benchmarks of the current (and next, when the new GPU backend will be ready) version of our libraries against other libraries. Do you know if there are any standard tests (besides the classic post script Tiger)? Maybe we can all agree on a common test set for all vector graphics libs bechmarks?
Google TVs have a dumb mode and they're cheaper than commercial displays. Vizio went smart around 6-7 years ago IIRC.
truss, that's a command I haven't seen in a long time
Von Braun lived just long enough for the first Viking lander. So he got to hear the bad news.

Landing heavy objects on Mars is not quite as bad as an airless landing, but it still takes a lot of fuel. Von Braun probably would have wanted to build a large space station orbiting Mars, with rockets shuttling back and forth from Earth orbit for supply. Then, with enough fuel accumulated in Mars orbit, a soft landing on rocket power would be possible.
I am confused by the benchmarks you provided.

(1) The "baseline" comparison was to PyPDF + Naive RAG. For the LlamaParse evaluation, you appear to have used a different RAG pipeline, called "recursive retrieval." Why not use the same pipeline to demonstrate the improvement from LlamaParse? Can you share the code to your evaluation for LlamaParse?

(2) I ran the benchmark for the PyPDF + Naive RAG solution, directly copying the code on the linked LlamaIndex repo [1]

I got very different numbers:
mean_correctness_score 3.941
mean_relevancy_score 0.826
mean_faithfulness_score 0.980

You reported:
mean_correctness_score 3.874
mean_relevancy_score 0.844
mean_faithfulness_score 0.667

Notably, the faithfulness score I measured for the baseline solution was actually higher than that reported for your proprietary LlamaParse based solution.

[1] https://github.com/run-llama/llama-hub/tree/main/llama_hub/l...
Sadly, every TV brand is doing this now.
IIRC that's more than CHIPs Act, but it's 2024, Sam wants (lol) 7T for OpenAI hardware, I can't tell what's a lot of money anymore.
I wonder what's the math on trying to use a huge rail gun on Mars to shoot things into orbit. I know that people have talked about using rail guns on the moon to shoot and other materials ore back to earth (or even to mars) -- but the moon has less of an atmosphere and less of a gravitational pull than mars.
I guess you could sell VPS' and/or VPNs
I was freaked out how nosy Vizios TV OS is. Got an Apple TV make it stop spying.
Honest question here; why would you need more power to fly a helicopter on Mars than on Earth? You’d likely need proportionally larger blades, but less power, as the power goes into providing thrust, which is used to counter gravity (that is lower on Mars). Likewise, conventional aircraft would require longer wingspans, as they’d be flying in lower density air, but they’d also be lighter (less weight).

In case it’s not obvious, I suspect that larger wings are required because of the lower density of Mars’ atmosphere, which would increase the stall speed relative to Mach number of any given aircraft.
It's a false analogy.

Programming has a lot more in common with portrait painting or sculpting than building something physical like a house.

It is very hard and expensive to change physical things, software is relatively easily comparatively to change. Because software is changeable and pliable, it is practical to not make all decisions in advance.
Hare: A systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust
> The money would be much better spent helping them catch up to other countries with IPv6 deployment.

I don't understand why so many Fiber providers are IPv6 reluctant. Our last fiber provider (Frontier) abandoned it before it started. I'm on a fiber provider now w/ a choice of 8+ ISPs. Zero of them offer IPv6. I'm reading up on getting my own IPv6 AS.
RackTables – datacenter asset management system
Apple TV is an option. Then all your data is going to Apple instead.

They have HDMI input. So you can pipe in what you want.
> "I was led to believe that this world was an evil place, filled with cops who control, hospitals that injure, government agencies that brainwash, church leaders who lie and lust, husbands who refuse to protect and children who need abuse," she said.

other than abusing children, most of her list there is spot on.
It wasn't always like this - the requirement to give your ID to get a SIM card, as you noted, was only introduced in 2017 (though it certainly feels way longer ago for me).

Anyways - why does nobody care?

Simple: most don't feel this being an issue.

Some may even say that they "don't have anything to hide" and there goes the erosion of privacy, bit by bit - by the time someone notices "ok, this may become a problem" - it'll be too late :(
Your beliefs and words are stripping me of my talents, livelihood, journey, meaning, finances and goals and you're upset that I call it ignorant, uncaring and dehumanizing. Hypocritical or not, these are not my attempts at creatively insulting you. They're the smallest of reality checks you need and I have absolutely no delusion to believe you'll ever think otherwise. How YOU became a victim in this discussion lends to nothing beyond an eye roll. You still haven't uttered a word of empathy for anything that doesn't fit your position. History will appreciate these discussions and who fought for what exactly.

Now tech thinks its an expert on philosophy, history and art. Hubris is something folks should lead with more often in place of ego.

edit: It'd be real easy to conflate my response to dehumanising each other with the larger arguments at play. Continue to hunt for your 'gotchas'
I believe Reeder is doing kind of this feature. They release every year or every other year a new version with new version name like Reeder 5. So, if you want an upgrade, you just purchase Reeder 5, but you can always download Reeder 4 if you have purchased it before.
There is not enough industry growth for every junior to own their own business in 10 years.
I know explaining the joke automatically makes it less funny, but could you explain the pun? I didn't get it.
If you really want to make $10 from a user, you just charge them $12.99. No need for Subscriptions.
The last part is what constantly destroys me :)
He’s referring to the song “Holiday in Cambodia”.
What is this post trying to achieve.

To me these "what it's like in comparison to x" post just try to exaggerate and overblow the Programmers life whilst downplaying an Architects.

Almost all of these points just illustrate that every project based profession has similar pain points.

It's also ignorant to assume you know what it's like to be an architect or what another profession is like for that matter unless you have worked in both fields.
> I’ll add another shocker: sometimes blueprints are poorly specified and/or incorrect.

A family member bought a plot, some blueprints for a two-story house from an architect firm and hired someone to build it.

Well into the construction, the builders asked if he would like them to raise the roof of the building by one meter, as it would be a negligible increase in cost.

He was going to reject the offer but changed his mind and accepted.

Once completed he realized that if he had rejected the offer, he wouldn't be able to use the second floor at all. The house had a Gable-style roof[1], and the stairs a U shape along one of the outer walls. Had he not raised the roof, one couldn't have walked up the stairs due to the roof being so low along the outer walls. Even after raising the roof, tall people would still need to tilt their heads going up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gable_roof
there's no links to howtos?
My Apple Vision Pro has literally gathered dust.
If you are a fan of the Von Braun idea, you might find this interesting…

https://youtu.be/ozkl1OvNvEc?si=B5ZQ3dWO2gFqlaoA

It includes a few scenes of Von Brauns Mars gliders.

This is from a long dead indie movie project called “Man Conquers Space” based on his ideas. More info at https://feoamante.com/Movies/Movies/Man_Conquer_Space.html
TL;DR Kroger and Albertsons were hiding a lot of cloak and dagger tactics and industry collision to get the deal closed. At this point, the deal is a zombie
I think it would have helped if you linked to the timestamp[1] where he started talking to encourage discussion, 5h47m in for anyone wanting to watch it. I recommend at 2x. It's a very interesting presentation, from the history to the mechanics of how it works, to the possibilities.

[1] https://youtu.be/LUFp6sjKbkE?t=20820

It's interesting to hear about how it originated in a research group in Russia led by KK Likharev, and how the students were poached to the USA and are now at retirement age there. That it was funded by the USSR to out compete IBM superconducting and Sutherland thinks[2] his group did with SFQ .

[2] https://youtu.be/LUFp6sjKbkE?t=22760

Sutherland was interested in wafer probers for the purpose of SFQ research that work at superconducting temperatures, he asked where he could get one and was told four were shipped to China[3]. Relevant relating to how USA is falling behind possibly, and there are sanctions on nVidia sending the latest in GPU/compute to China, but this happened.

[3] https://youtu.be/LUFp6sjKbkE?t=22862

One of the most interesting topics I have been introduced to and a great presentation and Q&A (watched at 2x speed of course) on it.
That's also why Google doesn't leverage YouTube to its true potential. YouTube has the lowest revenue per user of all the video platforms and this is the reason why.

And trying to increase its usability and profitability outside of ads would affect negatively Google's overall business.
I'm going to ignore everything that sounds too weird to address. Philosophy major? Drinking on a Tuesday?

As for laws, we're almost in agreement. People want to argue about rights, but it seems to me the rules are a lot more about control. I could ramble on quite a bit about corruption at every level from local police to federal politicians. ... to copyright enforcement.

However, most of the rules were made before the current batch of super rich people got super rich, so there's something oversimplified in thinking it's just about protecting wealth.

My bottom line? Compute problem? Whatever. I think the rest is just more weirdness I can't make sense of.
Ultimately chokepoint still around creating litho/entire semi supply chain. which TBF is coming along. Big Fund was wasetful but did produce a lot of uncoordinated domestic players, US sanctions now forcing them to coordinate. PRC probably only actor with entire indigenous semi supply chain on the horizon. Fabbing leading edge chips was always the "easy" part, there's a reason TSMC/Samsung were willing to open fabs on mainland before US sanctions/CHIPs act without massive subsidies. Other east asians know Chinese work culture is compatible, they can work how they work and make what they make. Hence SMIC/Huawei can do 7nm and eventually 5nm with some TW/SKR training in years prior.

Semi is probably going to be less like oil and more like agriculture in coming years, it's just something strategic many govs have to subsidize.
Zehome/Mlvpn: Multi-Link VPN (ADSL/SDSL/XDSL/Network Aggregation / Bonding)
More Wall Street Firms Are Flip-Flopping on Climate. Here's Why
my pet theory: consciousness, free will, the soul, the spice, whatever you want to call it is a sum of the evolutionary process which produces a living being plus the noise that its substrate and environment excite it with.

i believe that the true fuel that drives complex behaviors in neurological systems is noise, and what appears to be free will is simply noise that we can never completely measure, understand or replay.

i suspect neurological systems are deterministic only in context of a completely deterministic environment/universe which for our purposes simply doesn't exist.

so maybe the field of artificial intelligence, with its completely deterministic and replayable ttl worlds may produce some interesting results around the notion of free will, but i suspect that unless we can replay and then mutate the physical world deterministically, we'll never know if the study of neurological systems can.

if you excite a machine with noise, and it creates a memory while producing a complex behavior, is it any less alive than a living biological system that is excited by the noise in its environment?

my $.02, definitely keep the change!
I am not seeing it. Either I am blind or we are seeing two different things? China sky-rocketed since the pandemic. They had a rough lock-down but there is something strange brewing there: Their tech/quality sector is releasing stuff at record speed (cars, phones, chips, etc..), their exports have boomed and even in this recent downturn seems to have stabilized, their "green" transition is happening at an unbelievable speed (look for China solar installation for last year), they continue to pump highways, HS rail, metros, airports at mind-boggling quantities, etc...

I am afraid the train left the station, or more like the rocket has launched already. I don't think the sanctions are going to make that big of an effect and if anything, they might come to bite the US back than anything else.
You're not countering gravity, you're countering the mass of the helicopter vs. the mass of the air moved. Thus, since the air is thinner: to push larger blades going at the same speed, OR the same sized blades going at a faster speed, you'd need more power.
This is a very naive take. The view of most postmodern forms of critique is that we can rule out clearly wrong views of the world as useless or counterproductive, but there is no one unmediated perspective that represents the truth. Moreover, there are many perspectives of the underlying reality that should be considered and treated with charity to determine what is "true" in them.

That's why queer theory holds that it should be deconstructed if it becomes the dominant perspective. There doesn't need to be one! The "working theory" of reality can and should be intersubjective because it is always mediated through individual perspectives, language, etc. It's a matter of finding common ground and incorporating productive ground from other perspectives that moves us forward as a society. Seeking an objective and unified description of the underlying "foundational" reality is silly. Reality is not Truth. Instead, truth is a property of linguistic statements and other representations of (what are ultimately subjective or intersubjective) perspectives of the underlying reality.

People reject that notion with funny statements like "No. I reject this" because they don't understand the argument and feel threatened by it.
Tracking Travel
Fil-C: Memory-safe Compiler and Runtime for C
People have been doing that for 10+ years solid, even more with rudimentary middleware such as grid computing.
There's an [incomplete] services list here along with the version of the Design System they're using. Those on 5.1, 4.8 or 3.15 are capable of showing the new crown.

https://github.com/x-govuk/govuk-services-frontend-stats
Multi-user support would be very welcome on a device selling for 3500 USD. I find it rather user-hostile that iPads don’t have this option either, but even their flagship device? Come on.
Here is a non restricted link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/us/blogger-ruby-franke-senten...

What a sad story for the kids.
While you’re reading papers (especially if they are 40+ years old), it’s worthwhile to read more modern experimental data on the subject as well.

Here’s one from 2012 that rebuts the Libet interpretation directly:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1210467109
I'm sorry if this sounds personal--it's not. But your stated view is again naive.
Why do you need a German phone number? Many countries let anyone have a phone number, with no proof of address or other identifying information. Just use one of those numbers instead. One example service is https://jmp.chat/ but there are many others.
I really doubt that humanity will make trip to earth from mars in the next 50 years. It already takes a huge amount of fuel to land on Mars -- its not economical to launch enough fuel for a return trip (even if some of the fuel could stay in orbit like with the moon landings). Much better idea to find the few people that are fine living and dying on mars. Humanity has not returned a single sample from mars even though we've been landing spacecraft on mars for 50 years.
There's new phone number privacy settings for "Who can see my number?" and "Who can find me by number?", both having "Everyone" and "Nobody" settings. I assume disabling both should stop it from messaging people, although not sure if you can set it quickly enough after registering.
Aerodynamic forces are proportional to density.

Mars' surface gravity is 1/3 that of Earth's.

Mars' surface air density is 1/60 that of earths.

So to use lifting surfaces on Mars to fly, the situation is 20x harder.

It's roughly equivalent to flying at 40,000 ft on Earth with an electric helicopter. The world record for highest helicopter ever flown is 42,500 ft on Earth.

Flying on Mars is like flying more or less at the service ceiling of all but the most specialized aircraft can on Earth, and most of those are air breathing engines.

The structural weight required to make equivalent lift to weight ratios (L/W) is very much harder and the lower gravity doesn't make up for most of the difficulty.
Durov personally blocked Navalny channels in Telegram during 2021 elections - https://www.rferl.org/a/telegram-navalny-smart-voting/314662... even though "technically" as a foreign legal entity they had no obligation to follow orders of Russian censorship agencies. Also, if you look up the results of court decisions in Russia, Telegram leads by a significant margin among other messengers. Yes, of course, it is the most popular messenger in Russia, but it is designed from the ground up to tie and control the circle of communication to specific people as precisely as possible.