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Sounds like this guy is a Mac programmer, and couldn’t afford to hire folks to write for other platforms.

I feel that pain. I write native Apple software, and the torrents of hate that I get, for not spending tens of thousands of my own dollars on multi-platform development (for a free app), is ridiculous.

It sucks to be hated for something I love to do.

It appears as if he’s opened the communication architecture, so it’s probably possible for someone to throw up their own drivers.
If I'm doing my math correctly, Io covers about 0.06% as many degrees of our vision from Earth as the moon does. (I'm not good at this math, but I'm trying.)

Io Diameter 2263.8 miles

Jupiter Distance to Earth 444000000 miles

Perp / Base 0.000005098648649

Radians 0.000005098648649

Degrees 0.0002922792219

Arc Seconds 1.052205199

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Moon Diameter 2159.1 miles

Moon Distance to Earth 238900 miles

Perp / Base 0.009037672666

Radians 0.009037426614

Degrees 0.5180690416

Arc Seconds 1865.04855
I'm no expert and I don't like engaging in arguments to authority but Terrence Tao is one of the leading mathematicians of our age, akin to Erdos. When he's excited about a result, that should be a high signal indicator that it's worth paying attention.

In terms of the result itself, as Tao explains:

> ... making the first substantial improvement to a classical 1940 ...

Meaning, it's been 80 years since any progress has been made on this front (bounds of zeros of the Riemann zeta function).

I would make the argument that it's not so much making a top speed car from 200mph to 227mph but discovering an engine that uses gasoline instead of steam.

Presumably the methods used in the paper might be able to be extended or refined to get better results.
Depends on the jurisdiction, needless to say. I've interviewed in London, say.
It really is, it seems more like satire of a comment than a comment.
Lol, so you've got a working theory to bridge the quantum and classical worlds? That is, you've figured out how to make general relativity and quantum mechanics emerge from a more fundamental theory? Somebody get this person a Nobel!

We're at the phase where we know the world is quantum, but we also simply don't have the ability to bridge that set of observable phenomena to what we know about macroscopic things. That's what makes this exercise "silly".
Look, it's a bit late here so I don't really have time to fully refute your sophisticated argument. But let me ask you this: if AI is not curve fitting, what is it then?
Could you share an example of how you use nix repl? I use it every once in a while, but usually I'm starting from scratch and trying to replicate an error for debugging. It almost sounds like you're using the `--debugger` option (isn't there something like that?) which I've not had much luck with.
Agree, they’re strong but in the particular case of the article, it seems the introduction of mere turnips did this one in.
Germany is an outlier, not the norm, when it comes to security research
I'm half convinced that Microsoft puts all of their best employees in Azure and cloud products while poor performers are dumped in the legacy Windows group where they come up with "features" like this one. Seems like everything they've been doing the past decade with legacy Windows is ruled by "users are too dumb to know what they want but we're even dumber". As Windows becomes a smaller and smaller share of Microsoft's revenues, expect to see more of the bottom cruft dumped into it. Or to put it another way, Windows is Microsoft's new PIP before they fire you.

On the other hand, they just laid off a couple hundred from Azure, so maybe the above isn't quite right or there just isn't enough room in the Windows group for those who fail to perform at the expected level doing Azure, so they were laid off directly.
I think you’re saying that testing smt makes it expensive, which sounds mostly right to me, though I can imagine some arguments that it isn’t much worse. When I first read your comment, I thought it said the opposite – that removing smt requires expensive testing and validation work.
> What is this interview process meant to demonstrate?

IIUC, the interview deviated from the company's interview policies.

Could the answer simply be that the company has no intentions regarding the aberrant interview process that you experienced?
> I feel what we're all saying is that the security risks of amassing all this data are very unlikely to offset the small benefit of being able to remember something you did last week.

Oh, I agree. It's the rational observation and conclusion. But this feature isn't for us.

It's for the average non-technical computer user, and ostensibly they do want this feature, the downsides be damned.

> It'll be a scary "new normal" when your computer OS records everything you do, as standard, and everyone else expects that to be the case.

That is scary and not even something I had considered, since trying to criminalize E@EE gets all the press these days.

It's possible one day that all these computers from the last few decades may end up being very valuable given they are all unlocked and future ones may not be.
MindScript: An experimental language combining formal and informal computation
"Formal computation within MindScript is realized through a Turing-complete language (λ), ensuring rigorous programmability. Meanwhile, informal computations are handled by an oracle, realized through a language model (Ψ) which interprets and processes less structured inputs."

From a former AI safety team lead at DeepMind
Looks like this site just uses trace.moe, the video link it outputs is at "api.trace.moe"
> The questions that are harder to answer (and again, I know these will come up based on prior experience), are what the password is that was exposed, what the website it appeared next to was and, indeed, if it appeared next to a website at all or just alongside an email address. Right at the beginning of this project more than a decade ago, I made the decision not to load the data that would answer these questions due to the risk it posed to individuals and by extension, the risk to my ability to continue running HIBP. We were reminded of how important this decision was earlier in the year when a service aggregating data breaches left the whole thing exposed and put everyone in there at even more risk.

Seems it's a design decision not to.
I think that (as with many of the problems of the modern world ;P) it can all be blamed on Descartes.

The notion of dualism is profoundly problematic in a bunch of ways, but the biggest problem with it is that it created generations of scientists who ended up believing that consciousness and body experience are completely separate, which is a little ludicrous when you think about it.
that was exactly my question at the time!
Thanks for your reply! Couple thoughts:

> How someone structures themselves around that conflict is the signal. Disclosing potential conflicts of interest is the ethical bar and that has been done.

This is kind of the problem though, it hasn't been done. Graham, my example in the post, didn't know YC invested in OpenAI. The previous board didn't know about Altman's ownership of the Startup Fund. His growing investments were, for most of them, published on the WSJ — yesterday.

> Whatever the real reason for the original OpenAI’s board to ouster Sam, the current board has found no wrongdoing on Sam’s part and crucially made no request for him to cease investment activity.

The original reason was a lack of trust, and the original board was pushed out so he could return. Of course the current board, one built from it's foundation to be much more receptive and docile to Sam's activities and statements.

> It is possible for Sam to take both positions.

> 1. Not taking financial gains from OpenAI so that his decisions are guided by building safe AGI

> 2. Investing in companies that are betting on trends he has the most conviction and knowledge about

The whole point here is that the second contradicts the first. If you're still directly making money off OpenAI's decisions & deals, the hand-waving of "being guided by building safe AGI" and not money ceases to be trust, because there are clearly billions at stake for Altman.

> we feed a narrative that has little explanatory power and perpetuates unrealistic expectations on how life in a position of power works.

The thing here is, Sam could realistically be an altruistic monk, not driven by any financial incentive when it comes to AI. There are a ton of different options, if he wants to live up to the standard he set for himself.

For example, putting investments into a trust that have to do with AI, not investing in related companies at all, putting a majority of his wealth into a Bill & Malinda Gates-style charity — the list goes on.

If had not tried to tell everyone he's doing this for the good of humanity and not money, he could take a multiple million $ salary + a huge personal stake in OpenAI and no one would bat an eye. It's the fact that he himself is position his image to be one thing, which is not the case.
It's not an attack of LotR realism I think. But more a meta analysis. The story does end with aragorn's coronation. Millitary general getting popular after winning a war is nothing if not realistic.

Heck, i think it's consistent at least in LotR, that Aragorn must be a good king. A world where it's literally the music of a good god. You literally can't miss by just doing the wholesome thing, as no good deed will go unrewarded.
> As someone who has issues remembering where they left their house keys at times, I want this on a bloody coffee cup/t-shirt.

I've heard this quote a lot over the years, but the first person who said it was probably Lea Kissner, the former CISO of Twitter.

Here's their most recent post of the same statement: https://hachyderm.io/@leak/110784289970982813
Not OP, but you might want to, I dunno, run a search on the careers website. That's usually a good place to start.

Just a friendly tip: The market is pretty competitive nowadays and having critical thinking and problem solving skills can give you an advantage over your peers.
I meant that most people can leave it on. And if the software creator knows its not good for their software they can just not use HT cores, without disabling HT completely.
That’s how poetry works
Why not use a trail camera? They do everything this device does but better, plus they have video and night vision. And you can buy one for $50 instead of $200.
Encryption at rest has several valid use-cases beyond SOC audits. End of sentence.

Edit: Since this has gotten some negative votes, I'll happily expand.

The two primary examples of FDE that are real-world useful (i.e. not just checking boxes) is loss of physical control of a device and cryptographic erasure (at device end-of-life).

Neither of these use-cases in relevant to the threat model the article is discussing, but it's ridiculous to say that FDE is only for SOC.
A Custom Launcher for Android
Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years
> their site seems to imply the program banks will provide FDIC insurance

FDIC insurance doesn't cover things like this. It only covers a bank failure, and the bank Yotta was using (which is the entity that has the insurance) hasn't failed.

A silver lining to this may be that more people will better understand what FDIC insurance does and does not cover. People tend to think that if it's FDIC insured, then there's no way they can lose their money. That just isn't true, and the risk is greater if using a fintech service.
> Or you can end up like the people who lost their data [1]

I don't see how encryption at rest could've changed the outcome.

In the article, the cloud provider, which has full control over the VMs, was compromised. The VMs were hosting various Bitcoin services, which needed continuous wallet access for operation. So, I'd say there was no data at rest to be secured. The attackers could theoretically patch the application to make malicious transactions or just extract the wallet from RAM.

Also, the article suggests that the attackers were getting inside the running VMs rather than accessing VM storage directly.
> I don't think it's a stretch. I think the idea that LoTR is highly idealized/idyllic is an interpretation made up by people who didn't notice how carefully it's written and thought he left it out!

I'm confused by this though. I read through a bit of the article and although I could readily buy its conclusions as "plausible" I don't see anything at all that contradicts the idea of the Shire as an idyllic anarchic/collectivist society.

IMO, not only does "The Shire is a successful anarchic society where resources are plentiful and everybody is afforded a lot of leisure" read have the benefit of requiring fewer leaps of logic from the reader, it thematically makes more sense as a counterbalance to what is happening elsewhere across Middle Earth. This is the last holdout in a world being corrupted by lust for power and greed, after all, so maybe it truly is exceptional?
Reading the readme, I find myself wondering what problems this solves for. The example of wrapping nano strikes me as particularly odd, since editing files is already fairly easy to do programmatically either via direct file operations or with tools like sed. Aside from editors, most tools that offer a tui also expose the functionality for programmatic access (typically with some additional flags to the same binary). So it just strikes me as the wrong abstraction to interact with most things.

The other potential goal I could imagine was automation. If that is the case, I would recommend the author to make that more clear in the examples and also to describe it in relation to `expect`, which would probably be my go to tool for such use cases.

Whatever the case it does look like a fun project, even if I don’t see any cases where it would be the right tool for the job.
Well they rhyme so … depending on context you could probably construct a fairly impactful verse or quip
LeetCode is a filter mechanism, not an entire interview system.

The big companies that have LeetCode in their process also have system design, behavioral, resume review, and experience review as part of the process.

I’m sure some bad companies are using LeetCode as the entire interview process, but it’s not how it’s normally used.
So if someone told you they admired how obedient you are, you would take that as a compliment?
That's fair, I guess. I thought XP was shockingly horrible in many ways and Vista was kind of a disaster also, but at the same time that was also partly the result of forcing in security features and there was no way that wasn't going to be a painful process while developers and users adapted. And Windows 7 came out on his watch as well, so very fair point.
It seems they are at least aware of this, as their repo page says, "Privacy-focused: Your data is stored locally on your device, and you have the option (soon to be implemented) to encrypt it with a password for added security. No cloud integration is required." So, it appears they haven't implemented security yet, but plan to.
LOL, of course not. But momentum for doing so with, for instance, real estate, exists on blockchain and doesn't really exist on trad.
You think having 2 jobs known publicly is the same as working 2 full time jobs in secret and signing legal paperwork at both that they are your only job while working 20 or leS hours at each?
I have several questions that I ask. Each one is structured as python class, with unit tests that are failing. Your job is to make the unit tests pass by fixing the missing implementation/bug. You can add any debugging code, and run the interpreter as many times as you like (I use coderbyte, which isn't great, but it has an editor and an interpreter).

but typically it starts with: you have a list of 10K strings, containing duplicates. produce a counts table (IE, string -> number of times that string occurred). What python data type or class does this efficiently? What is the underlying data structure? What is the time complexity of that data structure?

Next are a few questions about a python Node class used to build a tree, where I have either a bug that breaks a recursive indented print routine, or you need to detect a cycle (IE, is the tree you handed me really a graph?)

Finally, for senior engineers or people who are going to be working with low-level code, I have a bit-packing question using DNA sequences (A, T, G, C). I work for a biotech so it makes sense to have at least one question about DNA.

I've had to refine the questions over time based on what I've seen so that nothing is rushed, the important parts are obvious, and the interviewee doesn't feel like I'm asking them to find an approximate solution to an NP-hard problem in 30 minutes.
Effect of exercise for depression: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Pikopixel and such work in both OSes.
Its certainly exiting that we'll have laser based communication in the near future. its like all ingredients for interplanetary missions are slowly coming together. all we're missing now is a very high specific impulse engine that could push the several tons for human habitation to another planet.
Encrypting your volumes would have mitigated this, and indeed you should have.
If you think the Lord of the Rings is one big trope, you really haven't given it enough consideration. Yes, Tolkien has very clear moral and social ideals, but using this as grounds to portray LotR as "two-dimensional" absolutely does not do it justice. There's so much more nuance to it!

The Shire is idyllic, but no paradise. Its inhabitants are lovable, but petty and smallminded, they squabble and feud and betray each other. Good and evil exist, but aside from Gandalf and Sauron, all "good" characters have faults and mixed motivations and all "evil" characters are at least potentially redeemable. The stories of Middle Earth are shaped by Tolkien's (conservative, Christian) worldview, but he definitely did not write a utopia.
How do you test whether they're problem solvers that also know how to code, without leet-code interviews?
I’ve seen many companies try to do something more relevant in the technical interview, it still suffers from “which data structure manipulation method happens to be available in this framework and have you seen it recently”

Regarding “cheating” with an LLM, there is not unanimous consensus on that either. I’ve been in technical interviews where the collaborative coding tool had an LLM built right in, and I was encouraged to use it. If thats what I’m going to do at the company then demonstrating problem solving that way is useful.
> You know the thing about medical headlines where it turns out you can broadly tack “in mice” on the end to get a truer version?

No?
> would save Britain’s railways £3.5 billion over 35 years

So it saves £100 million per year. Why multiply by 35? Is that the lifetime of the trains?
I guess it depends on how you define religion. I think that we can have faith in anything - science, your doctor, etc. that could work in a similar fashion to religious faith.
On Windows, you can do this from the run dialogue!

[WIN]+R -> https://google.com
An NPU is a type of ASIC for fast, parallel matrix multiplication. GPUs and FPGAs are much more multi-purpose (and more powerful overall typically) but at the cost of much worse power efficiency.
Some CPE exposes an API on the LAN side, and some of these APIs aren’t protected against CSRF. I wonder whether the modem in question is vulnerable.
Oh yes, please let me live in the microplastics house, uwu
I never even see an Apple TV nor do I know how much one costs.

But, all this will do is generate more E-waste, plus this means people who bought these devices would feel cheated, especially older people. There was a time you bought a device like a TV and it was expected to last forever. My first TV I had for decades until I had to go to wide screen.

I think these large companies should be forced to accept these obsolete devices and dispose of them properly. I know many people will just toss these in their trash no matter what the local ordinances say.
It’s not obvious that that’s what’s happened here. Eg vector scheduling is separated but there are more units for actually doing certain vector operations. It may be that lots of vector workloads are more limited by memory bandwidth than ILP so adding another port to the scheduler mightn’t add much. Being able to run other parts of the cpu faster when vectorised instructions aren’t being used could be worth a lot.
I read the name and thought "of course, who else?". They were also involved in hacking "hoverboards", for instance fitting the motors onto bobby cars.
The latter would be a false-positive, which by assumption is both expensive and rare.
Probably a bird classifier. Aim the camera at a bird feeder, log what kind of birds are in view, save clips sorted by species. Make a graph of how many of each species there are each day over the year.

Coral has a smart bird feeder as one of their demo projects for their similar product: https://coral.ai/examples/

A smart lawn mower that navigates without fencing lines.

Gesture recognition integrated with Home assistant.
can someone explain the linguistic logic to me like I'm five? I've read it through twice and I don't understand how the connection is made between the characters and the english language?
Found this[1] a useful primer on potential significance from a 2018 proposed proof.

[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/why-we-care-riemann-hypo...
The article is vague and allows replacing "ai" with anything else, like tiktok/instagram or even the covid vaccine production.
Sqlfluff rewritten in Rust: ~10x speed improvement