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> graduate-level introduction to differentiable programming.

go check out any real graduate textbook. what you will find is they all have exercises.

> It's a book for ML researchers. I'm excited to read it. Calm down.

just because the authors claim something doesn't make it true. i'm not wrong - this is not a good pedagogical resource and i would bet a year of my salary (as an ML researcher) that you will in fact not read more than 5% of this book.
I'm not sure I'm following: What do you use Syncthing for if on your laptop you mount your remote Nextcloud storage anyway (and presumably use the Nextcloud client on your phone)?
Robots Are Entering the Ukraine Battlefield
The Coronation of a New Mascot: Noble Numbat
Do US universities admit to specific undergrad programs these days?

I had met a guy who got his master's in Robotics from UC Santa Cruz. He was looking for a job at the time and I referred him to someone I knew who was looking to hire. I think he got an offer pretty quickly.
Every single other major jet manufacturer is already making air travel cheaper and more efficient every year. It's all airlines who buy from Boeing or Airbus care about. The underserved niche is premium and small, not scale. Commercial aircraft will get 1% more efficient every year with or without new companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/medi...).

If we start in supersonic today, and innovate at the same pace for 20 years, you might match the efficiency boom from the "jet age" and make supersonic twice as efficient as today.
I can’t see the repo, Archie
This method has only been tested on tiny models (<1B) and tiny dataset (17B tokens). It’s not clear if it scales.
If you buy the S&P500 then someone else sold the S&P500 for the same amount of money. The cash doesn't disappear, it just moves to a different person who presumably sold the S&P500 because they need cash to spend it.

That is quite different than sitting on cash.
Banks don't report every transaction and even if they did it may not be "income". E.g. moving money from one account to another is a transaction but no income was earned and it is not taxable.
Are people defending WhatsApp, or just saying its widely used? In the places I go, you use it for everything from contacting friends to messaging businesses to schedule appointments. It's unavoidable.
The real inflation is in asset prices

Sometimes it just happens to bleed over into the price of sneakers and steaks and that’s when people get angry

But when money is printed out of thin air, the first refuge it seeks is in housing. And housing inflation has beaten all other inflation by a mile and a half
Not at my computer right now to double check.. but doesn't GPT4All's "Browse" button in the model list let you pick a locally downloaded model?
I get the same with white noise - and also with complete silence. Sitting by the weir on the river works too. I hear symphonies. Beautiful renditions of Rachmaninov, etc. - I find it rather interesting that there are evidently chunks of my brain dedicated to storing music at perfect fidelity - or at least it seems so.
We're banning engines now?
How would this situation indicate a slippery slope of decision-making? Mozilla didn't know about OneRep's CEO's history; nobody did until Krebs uncovered it.
I discovered Silent Running almost backwards when 65daysofstatic played a live re-score of the film many years back. Looks like it’s easily searchable still, comes highly recommended.
A lot of the better pentesters/security consultants have “colourful” backgrounds.
Awesome! We're rolling out Microsoft 365 really soon, starting this week :). Would love to hear about what services and workflows are most important for you.
It is the result of the government creating money to fund the deficit.

How does the inflation tell the difference between money created to fund the deficit and money created for other reasons?
If you want something faster than dart-sass, then https://github.com/connorskees/grass (a rust implementation) is pretty good these days (although it doesn't quite have full compatibility yet).
> It's all disinformation, and rather easy to refute. For example, if oil price hikes cause inflation, why do we not have corresponding deflation when oil prices go down?

What’s the logic here? Are you saying that if oil prices going up caused inflation, that oil prices going down would cause deflation?

That a nice intuitive leap, but you haven’t actually provided the reasoning for why that would be true. It’s kind of like saying that sticking a knife in someone doesn’t kill them, because pulling the knife out doesn’t bring them back to life. Sometimes, the opposite action doesn’t have the opposite effect. Pulling a knife out of somebody doesn’t restore them to the original state before they got stabbed. Lowering oil prices does not restore the economy to the original state before oil prices were raised.
Maybe check out the Colour Maximite 2 with a Cortex M-7 [1]

Very much in the spirit of the early home computers (inc a decent BASIC) but with a lot more oomph.

[1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
For things where there is a significant "cloud" type cost I am happy enough paying for that. But the software cost for the code in the car at the time of purchase should be covered by the cost of the car. It's not like there isn't an R&D cost in the hardware part of the car as well.

If the concern is the lower part of the market subsidizing the upper part, just don't install the software and market it as included on those vehicles. Just make it an overpriced option like every other thing on the vehicle.

(Aside: charging $80/year for a navigation system that is objectively worse than I can get for free on my phone, why would you expect me to pay that?)
Not when threading is disabled, as it is in this project.
> and so can be communicated with by any other app that anyone chooses to write an app

...and so, win?

> Apples apps are built on top of proprietary protocols which they do not allow anyone else to use

So Google let's anyone use their APIs but no one does, because developers would rather "win" by writing to more limited APIs that Apple controls and keeps for themselves.

Doesn't make sense to me.

Google's continuity in general, and in Android, is shoddy. Their support across "n" platforms is weak. Compare remote mobile automated QA services for iOS devices vers Android devices. The latter is a nightmare.

Even giving everyone full (but not really, because there are closed and controlled private APIs to Google services, too) access, as you say, can't bring them greater success. Because developers hate open platforms. /s

What they hate is poorly architected, sadly supported and non-revenue generating platforms.
Also, 4.7 seconds to read 1345 MB in 81k files is suspiciously slow. On my six-year-old low/mid-range Intel 660p with Linux 6.8, tar -c /usr/lib >/dev/null with 2.4 GiB in 49k files takes about 1.25s cold and 0.32s warm. Of course, the sales pitch has no explanation of which hardware, software, parameters, or test procedures were used. I reckon tar was tested with cold cache and pack with warm cache, and both are basically benchmarking I/O speed.
Where would the LLM get the training data? It's not as if supersonic jet designers commonly post easy-to-ingest design data online.

Besides, most countries couldn't build a modern jet engine even if they had the exact engineering drawings of an existing one available. From fashioning single-crystal turbine blades to establishing a supply chain capable of the quality controls needed, the amount of hours spent is unreal.
> -2%

Would be pretty awful though. Very slow or no GDP growth, if you have any significant amounts of debt you're basically permanently screwed (if you're rentier and can just live on interest from low-risk bonds without doing anything productive you're set though...)
I'm so glad we're having this conversation. Early in my career I kept waiting for that moment when I would feel like I really knew what was going on... and the last several years I keep feeling like a fraud. I've been at it for two decades, but I'm afraid eventually people will figure it out and then how will I earn any money?
>You have capital gains tax on it eventually,

Erm... no. That's how people imagine it's supposed to work, but in reality, the wealthy fund their consumption from loans using their wealth as collateral, enjoying the benefit of their wealth while avoiding capital gains taxes. Warren Buffet has famously criticized this, it's not some unheard of thing. There are many, many loopholes and they are very much there on purpose.
No problem, we'll pay in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels. Bastards.
You know what truly sucks about all of this? How much it forces people to grind and hustle and do all sorts of undignified crap just to make a living.

It truly kills all dignity of labor.
Not sure if there is basic/core technology development being done or valuable technology being generated. Is supersonic flight essentially just throwing a lot of jet fuel at the problem of wanting to get someplace fast? Are we expecting to see novel insights and spinoff technologies from the development of this plane and industry?

I think there's a key, core military angle to this company, where their best and most stable and lucrative customers are sure to be nation-states. I think there is some real value to be generated around super-sonic technology development for missile applications, drone applications, fighter jet applications.

I think that this company gets a lot of peoples' backs up, because they don't appear to have any unique insight besides "Rich people and nation states will pay through the nose for wasteful and extremely obnoxious technologies that degrade humanity as a whole." It's a great business, might be nice and profitable, great for rich people and the most developed nation states, might not be so great for the humanity as a whole.
It's no myth. I'm old enough to remember sonic booms as a regular occurrence. We were used to them but they were definitely louder than a jake brake and they disturbed a much larger area.
If SAFs are to be economically viable at all, they'll almost certainly need to be able to run in existing, unmodified engines. So: all engines will be able to run on some amount of SAFs anywhere for 0% to 100%, as will this new engine. This statement has no information content whatsoever.
Ask HN: How are you tracking tools / products to try out later?
For several years now, while reading HN and Xitter every day, I've been collecting lots of tools, projects and technical blog posts to "try out later". Most of them are never used, or stop being developed. But quite a few end up resurfacing, or being useful for new projects I start.

What do you use to keep track of tools / products you want to try out later? Or for keeping a library of "state of the art" to try at your $JOB?

Bookmarking services is the usual answer, but I don't feel like they're good enough. Or Notion/Obsidian/Org-mode. The main limitation with these is that once you clip a tool - there's so much metadata to fill out. Ideally, you want to be able to just save the link, and the tool would at least suggest tags, and get a summary description, with key functionality pulled out automatically.

Designers have a ton of options like https://eagle.cool. Is there something similar for tech product/tools?
You don't know that because you don't know the physical limits of reanimation technology. In 2014, a human brain was vitrified with no ice crystallization or fracturing for the first time. Certainly, the first viable preservation will occur (if it has not already occurred) long before the first reanimation, and eventually discovering that we began to preserve people too soon would be much better than discovering that we began not soon enough. Even the primitively frozen might be retrievable centuries from now.
Airlines are almost certain to face significant carbon regulation or carbon taxes in the next couple of decades. In turn, lots of engines will be effectively banned.

Of course, this is nothing new: noise abatement effectively banned a whole lot of engines, too.
Sure, but single threading isn't an inherent part of sqlite as OP implies.

> SQlite3 automatically means:

...

> - No parallel reads from multiple threads
Sure would be nice to just pop out to the Gorge for an afternoon of music though!
Node.js TSC Confirms: No Intention to Remove NPM from Distribution
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I have Bittle, their Open Source robot dog. Got it when they were doing the kickstarter.

It’s pretty cool :)
Why did you post a link to Herman Miller's website?
Do you simply refer to using them to track objects/people that arent yours?

Or aside from nefarious location tracking - can they be used to spy in any other fashion?
I write some toy Python scripts/apps for a couple APIs (the Pokeapi, Spacetraders, etc). I use the HTTPX library as a request client, and wasn't aware of the Hishel library for caching requests.

I used DiskCache to cache responses for ~15 minutes so I wasn't sending live requests every time I tested the app.

I'm not building anything "cloud scale," most things I run are off my local machine. Having a convenient, fast local cache that's simple to use (DiskCache) has so many uses, it's hard to think of them all! I might use a cache with no expiration to store some configs, or to store a serialized object for later retrieval. I might use it as an in-memory object cache while the program loads, so I don't have to spin up a Redis server.
What's the purpose of remote background image? Tracking?
So many of my cohort are now in a state of financial nihilism. Just yolo into the hottest stocks and crypto because debt is money and cash is for suckers.
Reverse engineering of a Russian missile electronic board [video]
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It is terrifying that people are just winging it, especially those who wield so much power and control over other people's lives.

On the other hand, it reminds me of that Steve Jobs quote about the whole world being built by people who are no smarter than you and me. It's humbling and encouraging, that we ourselves may participate in the perpetual (re)making of the world.
Yes, it's telling how excited I've if the prosecutors in the story was because they got a conviction. Not excited by whether justice was done.
Le Carré said this in the interview about his life (The Pigeon Tunnel):

“At a certain age, you want the answer. You want the rolled up parchment in the inmost room that tells you who runs your lives and why. The trouble is that by then, you’re the very people who know best that the inmost room is bare.”
"An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper."
I have aphantasia, so when I close my eyes most of the time I see nothing.

But sounds - on queue I can "pull up" a song and play it in my head - full orchestra, guitars, etc. I'm not very musically talented by my brain certainly runs on sound vs vision.

When I'm in the shower sometimes (like this) I'll hear something like a shout or a voice - it occasionally happens randomly too in other situations - but I certainly don't think it's some discarnate spirit - there is usually something else to accompany it and I assume it's my brain filling in the rest.
If you're building a submarine, you don't have to call it a "future submarine" until it submerges; people understand that if you say "I'm currently building a submarine," it has yet to go under water, but the thing you're building is still a submarine. I think that's generally true of not-yet-built or not-yet-used things: it's understood that if it hasn't done the thing yet, you're describing what it's going to be/do.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/03/19/mustafa-suleyman...

The real story here I think.
I suspect that vetting this kind of partnership needs someone who is ferociously knowledgeable, principled, and skeptical. Not someone who's mainly looking at it from a business development or career angle.

Now the aftermath could use a fighter, looking for how they could legally disassemble the entire racket. Not only because it's arguably on-mission, but more importantly because Mozilla has a reputation to redeem on this now.

(For example, no matter how that party has squeaked by wrt consumers, maybe there's a new angle in their dealings with Mozilla, such as a different kind of fraud. And Mozilla is much more able to pursue the matter than most individuals would be.)
It's apparently not the end for this project. This basically made it unavailable on Gitlab, but the source code itself didn't disappear. They already have their own Git repository (running on Forgejo) at: https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu

Even now, it's still seeing activity, and even has their actions and wiki migrated over. If there are problems with having this link here, let me know.
> pretty disappointing that they didn't vet their partner more thoroughly than what some GMU grad students were able to uncover

What did it take for them to uncover it?

Generally speaking, GMU grad students may have have more time and plenty of expertise. When those grad students leave school and get jobs at Mozilla, they may be too busy to go down rabbit holes looking for long shots.
You can use DOM-to-image (https://github.com/tsayen/dom-to-image).
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No, it's connected to AirTrain, which is slow and unpredictable, which is then connected to either the A or the LIRR.
Although a great deal of smoke and mirrors is used when justifying the banks unique right to print money, and it's easy to miss the wood for the trees as you get lost in the details, the bigger picture is quite simple:

1) the banks print new money every time a loan is taken out and charge interest on that money

2) the amount of money loaned out is increasing every year

3) the total amount of money currently loaned is essentially all the fiat money in existence i.e. even 2% interest is a mind-blowing amount of annual income

Sure, we can debate about between the banks and government, who receives what proportion of the interest, but if you disagree with any of those three points, please explain.
Super neat. I am slowly trying to get my kid into the space so I will be watching this one.

Incidentally, if anyone can share similiar efforts or kid ready sets, I would love to hear about it.
> Any app or machine you listen to that produces a color of noise, like white, brown, pink, green, or otherwise, is based on an algorithm or a code. It’s not truly random—so you’ll get a little while of what seems like random noise, and then the sounds repeat. On the surface, it probably doesn’t seem like it. But your brain recognizes the pattern and tries to make sense of it, which leads to hearing noises that aren’t actually there.

Many white noise machines are actually looping a 5 second recording of white noise. This is hard to notice at first, but it leads to the pattern recognition in the article.

I've found that this phenomenon is much less pronounced with white noise machines that generate actual random nosie.
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What do you mean, you don't love taking the airtrain to the bus to the subway to your destination?
Great question.

When banks loan money, they create the money. But when the loan is paid back, the money is destroyed.

The federal deficit is not paid back. (Oh, there's the fiction of it being paid back, but what actually happens is the government just issues more debt.)
"maybe this is only a problem in expensive cities like SF/NYC/LA where when you find a place you have to take it immediately nor lose it to the line of people ready to rent"

This. Everywhere else people usually can and do take the time to explore the area of the potential new home.

"I wonder if landlords should be required to disclose noise sources."

Maybe, but maybe they also don't know about those school band practices, so how to enforce it, but in general there are noise maps.
I do think managers trying to force people back to the office are tyrants. I maybe was a bit callous/harsh with what I said about RTO people. But you're making the point I was trying to communicate.

You know you prefer an office you can go to, and you don't like going days without seeing/talking to another human. That suicidal feeling you mentioned when you go too long without human contact? There is an inverse to that, where people like me feel burnt out, depressed, and "done" after too much (or sometimes even just a little) people time.

The people who want to return to an office should be allowed to, and should have a place to go. There are enough people who prefer working in an office that you'll get your human contact, and the people who want to be at home without all the people interaction should be given that option as well.

But the frustration you feel at the way I framed RTO people is the same frustration I feel when this sensible compromise is proposed, but isn't good enough for the RTO types. You prefer being around people throughout the week, I do not. There's room for both to work, but dictating I have to come to an office because you like seeing people is where the frustration comes from.
>> Jet engine is a "solved" problem for like 4 Western companies (GE, Pratt-Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Safran) plus some Russian and Chinese state-owned enterprises that mostly do military work.

Time to mention Williams International

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_International

They're on light jets from Cirrus and Cessna. Boom probably needs something a bit larger - seems like an opportunity for a development program.
Article:

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/empty-backpacks-activate-the-i...
Bulma.io layout is broken in landscape mode on my phone (responsively and full page refresh) with several sections going beyond the edge of the page. Firefix on Pixel 7.

I'd love to use this because it looks good, but this makes me lose trust.
Pure CSS. Invalid HTML.

Nice job tho. Now just need to make it in 3D.
Microdown: A clean and extensible markup language [pdf]
I loved these comics. I related to a lot of them. My favorite was the comic about sorting Skittles by color. I think you can still find the comics on the internet archive. Anyone have insight to what happened to the author?
CBN. Some brands I've tried in the past are Camino, Wyld, and Lights Out.

For me, a THC:CBN combo works wonders for sleep.
I think your time would be better suited getting as far ahead of this looming upheaval as possible, rather than going down with the sinking ship while trying to warn everyone on board that it's sinking, while they scoff at you and order more martinis.
> They could have chosen 0 or -2% but they like to reap that 2% free money premium..

If you think negative inflation (deflation) would be a good choice to make, perhaps look at the 1930s.
> Yes?

Not really? Adjusted by inflation it's very volatile and not at all stable. Gold now is worth ~7x more than in 1970 but 25% less than in 1980, yet 4x more than in 2000 but still less than in 2011... There were some periods since 1970 where the (CPI adjusted) price of gold was relatively stable but that's certainly the exception and not the rule.

> but it's the most stable denomination of value that exists

You might use oil instead? It's not that much more unstable than gold.. Or wheat?
Just wrong. Read about the 7J7. The 787 cost something north of 20 billion to develop. The clean sheet 737 would have cost much more in today’s dollars. Boeing makes an average of less than 5% profit margin from the 1970s to now. It was a relatively obvious financial decision from Boeing’s perspective.