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I’m not familiar with Rust, but Swift has three options and it sounds like it may be similar.

In Swift code that throws when called must have “try” in front of it, making it really obvious where that’s going on. Your three options:

try - calls the code and either returns the like normal or an error that you’re forced to handle in a catch.

try? - calls the code and returns the value or nil (null value) if an error is thrown.

try! - calls the code and returns the value. If the function throws an error your app panics.

It’s quite nice. You can choose to handle the error when you need to. If you don’t really care about the specifics of the error and just want to treat any kind as a failure try? cleans up your code.

And try! lets you avoid writing boilerplate when you know it’s impossible for the error to be thrown but the compiler can’t deduce that from the source alone.
> I'm just saying that you don't need to be a manipulative asshole in order to succeed in business.

Definitely agree here. If you're a manager or executive, you always have the option of showing up to work casually, treating everyone with good faith to get work done and get paid.

If you're an employee, though? Ground crew, not management, no reports? It's gloves-off all the time, a manager who's nice to you one day can turn sour another. It's the nature of the power imbalance that makes it impossible for good employees to take their employer in good faith. Without that skepticism, you're bound to be manipulated and undervalued as a human.
Well fortunately we live in the USA, where free speech protections are extremely strong.

Someone not liking your product isn't going to result in a winning defamation lawsuit.

Musk is free to attack the reputation of the trillion dollar for profit company all he likes.
I had my Python and pip installed from distribution packages. One day I needed to build something from source, but it needed Meson...

Ok installed Meson also from my distro packages! But no, the project required a newer Meson version.

Ok let's install Meson with pip! But no, it turns out pip packages themselves can require a minimum pip version!! Go figure.

So I couldn't build that program without first pip-installing Meson, and I couldn't pip-install Meson without first pip-installing a more modern version of pip itself.

Guess how well it worked when I upgraded pip. Spoiler: not a smooth way to discover that Python packaging is a joke.
Why though? They don't fulfill the same niches. None of those languages have a data science and ML ecosystem like Python. Rust and Swift lack mature cross platform GUI frameworks etc.

Also Python is getting exciting again. 3.12 can optionally remove the GIL and add a JIT.
> Entanglement

Entanglement does not allow for information to be sent. It is used that way in Science Fiction, but in reality information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. There are some phenomena that do travel faster than the speed of light, but they are not useful for sending information.

Again, information is the key bit.

This is rather important since if information can travel faster than the speed of light, causality falls the hell apart and the universe basically wouldn't function in anything like a reasonable manner[1].

A greatly simplified explanation for why entanglement doesn't send information -

Let's say you have two electrons, A and B, and they are entangled. Quantum particles like electrons have certain measurable properties that are random, the most commonly used example is spin. Once a particle's spin has been measured, it will be the same on every subsequent measurement. Spin is either Up or Down.

So, to summarize, an electron has a property called spin. We do not know what an electron's spin is until we measure it, and once we measure it, the spin will not change. Basically it is a coin flip, and we cannot influence what the result is.

Two entangled electrons, this means if we measure electron A's spin, and it turns out to be Up, then if we measure electron B's spin it will also be Up. That is entanglement. (Note that you have to measure both, measuring A has no noticeable effect on B)

(The reverse of this is also true, if you measure B's spin, then A's spin will always be the same when measured)

Notice that we cannot control B's behavior, we cannot make it flash on and off or anything like that. All we can do is ensure that A and B both share the same random result. Again, the result is random! Random results are not information. We cannot use random results to communicate anything! Quantum Entanglement says basically "we know that if we measure particle A, that particle B's measurement will be the same". It is a bit more complicated than that, but from an information theory point of view, that is all that is important - Quantum Entanglement cannot be used to send information.

[1] If information can travel faster than the speed of light then thanks relativistic time dialation to you can just throw someone onto a fast moving aircraft and start sending information to the past. Honestly, and in all seriousness, if this was possible I'd expect high frequency traders to already be trying it.
I believe it’s confirmed that they’re doing it with Swift, buried somewhere in the ML post IIRC.
Thanks. What is a "protocol server?"
I actually liked that they didn’t show any of the AI writing capabilities being used in iMessage but rather in email client for more professional contexts. I’m really curious to see if they make it available in iMessage…
Fair enough. But I would do the same if I were in his shoes just out of spite for selling out to Microsoft. Sue them for everything they are worth.
It's way more direct if you read what it says

Elon fans downvote it though.
I worked at a grocery store in my teenage years and a couple of times a year we were enlisted to shift entire segments of items to different isles. The owners were quite transparent: every time they did it, they got an uptick in sales that lasted much longer than you would think (like months). The effect of people wandering around trying to find the item they needed inevitably leads to them stumbling on other things and buying them on impulse. And I think those "impulse" buys were often much higher margin than whatever they came into store to buy in the first place.

Another bizarre thing was positioning items right on the edge of the shelf, as if they are about to fall off. Apparently this creates some kind of psychological impulse as well.
Actually, what my Russian advisor (studied at MEPhI and Kurchatov) said was that establishing industry in Russia is a less effective use of money than just pumping oil esp. taking into account the cost of heating the factories so it might as well be moved to Malaysia where the climate is better. He also said Turkey was better than Sochi for vacation. Does that answer your question?
You can find much cheaper batteries. But they will require additional components that are included in the Powerwall, will be less integrated, less pretty to look at, the mobile apps not as pretty, more complex to purchase, etc

Example 30kw for $8k. https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-ll-s-lithium-batteries-kit-30...
or https://batteryhookup.com/products/new-24-56kwh-lifepo4-batt...
Growing up I read a lot of “golden age” science fiction, and I remember realizing how many classic “hard” sci-fi novels and short stories feature super mental powers like telepathy, precognition, teleportation, etc.

- Asimov’s Foundation series

- Herbert’s Dune series

- Larry Niven’s Known Space stories

- Heinlein’s Stranger from a Strange Land

- Alfred Bester’s Demolished Man and Tiger Tiger

- Clarke’s Childhood’s End

I’m sure there are more that I forgot to mention.

It really did seem to be a pervasive expectation that the mind was the next frontier for seemingly magical scientific advancements. But it never panned out with actual results, and mental powers faded from hard sci-fi stories.
"it’s a dick move" implies that you are somehow entitled to that money. Otherwise it's a fair move.

It is extremely delusional to expect to receive $1 billion dollars unconditionally.
But can reality run Crysis? Or will it be Cyberpunk 2077...
Right, that’s the Java issue. It becomes very easy to just add “throws Exception“ all over the place to silence warnings when things start to get tricky.

Because Swift forces the keyword ‘try’ (or a variant) before calling code that may throw it ends up being a lot of work to try to avoid the issue just by making everything throw. It’s much easier to do the correct thing and just handle the error in a smart place.
Yes. Not only are there bad actors, but oracle aggressively culls underutilized instances. If you sign up and attach your billing info you won’t get that happening to you. I know, it sounds silly, but once I did that I had no issues. It’s difficult to even get instances provisioned if you don’t do that, it’s really only possible by having a script that runs and continually retries/requests instances. I’ve had my billing info tied to it and never had an issue with being charged or having instances deprovisioned the entire half year I’ve been using it.
Yeah. Musk is cringe but on this he's right on this. OpenAI went from a company with noble aspirations to just another sketchy big tech company at odds with the interests of the rest of society.
Companies with PIPs stand firmly on the "Adult Day Care" side of the industry.

When serious professionals try to work together and it doesn't work out, someone is asked to leave, and they do. They get to play it off as a reason other than performance. Egos and careers remain undamaged, and everyone can move on.

Adult Day Care centers have very low bars to clear, and most roles could be performed by basically anyone. Firing someone requires a lot of pomp and circumstance in order to seem fair. After all, everyone else is barely doing anything, and they will get to keep their jobs.

If you get put on a PIP, you know what game you're playing, and you absolutely should not quit. Make them fire you, and collect unemployment. Then move on to the next host.
There's a few good books on the psychology behind this kind of thing in retail by Paco Underhill. Best, I think, is Why We Buy.
"oh, sorry we were racist. here's a $25 gift card for illegal restraint settlement"

amazing. Yes, they see a lot of crazies. No, this isn't an acceptable approach to the problem, or response, or outcome (yet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-D_amplifier#History

> Practical class-D amplifiers were enabled by the development of silicon-based MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) technology.

> The first class-D amplifier based integrated circuit was released by Tripath in 1996, and it saw widespread use.

say thanks :) i started going down the analog electronics route with audio amplifier projects
you say propaganda, I say truth.

> According to certain European politicians such as Petr Nečas, RFE played a significant role in the collapse of communism and the development of democracy in Eastern Europe.[40][41][42] Unlike government-censored programs, RFE publicized anti-Soviet protests and nationalist movements. Its audience increased substantially following the failed Berlin riots of 1953 and the highly publicized defection of Józef Światło.[43] Arch Puddington argues that its Hungarian service's coverage of Poland's Poznań riots in 1956 served as an inspiration for the Hungarian revolution that year.[44]

> For the first two days following the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, the official Eastern Bloc media did not report any news about the disaster, nor any full account for another four months. According to the Hoover Institute, the people of the Soviet Union "became frustrated with inconsistent and contradictory reports", and 36% of them turned to Western radio to provide accurate and pertinent information.[58] Listenership at RFE/RL "shot up dramatically" as a "great many hours" of broadcast time were devoted to the dissemination of life-saving news and information following the disaster.[59] Broadcast topics included "precautions for exposure to radioactive fallout" and reporting on the plight of the Estonians who were tasked with providing the clean-up operations in Ukraine.[59]
Please explain to me? I may be too dumb to understand the inbetween lines here.
Can’t find a link right now (search terms are pretty crowded atm!) but I saw they just recently shared an llm they’ve been working on that is designed to answer questions about how a give screen of an app functions. (Identifying buttons, core functionality, etc.)
If you aren't making enemies you're doing it wrong. (You never know when you may need them / they may need you.

Also, there's more than one way to bell a cat.
Have you tried "poetry"?
Note that ROV stands for Remotely Operated Vehicle - it is not autonomous, it is controlled by a person.

What you are describing would be called a UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle) or AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle).
Money doesn't affect the size of your economy, in general money is not even relevant to the discussion, save for the fact that it gives us a unit of measurement. Money is a relative resource, in a simplified manner, money dictates who gets what fraction of the pie. By printing more money you're not making more pie, just dividing the existing pie into thinner slices. Economies grow because of improvements in technology, science, using or finding natural resources, producing things etc.
> if you kicked Musk out of SpaceX and replaced it with absolutely any random guy as CEO, do you believe reusable rockets would never see the light of day?

Any time prior to ~2014, absolutely.
Our eyes have a very narrow area of full-fidelity vision. The brain creates an illusion of us seeing a large field of view by having the eyes do a lot of quick movements very fast[0], while blanking our vision during the movement itself so we don't notice it[1], then stitching the result together into one perceived image, while eliminating, interpolating or faking anything that was happening during transitions or outside of sampled areas[2], and slapping a common timestamp on the whole composite.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade

[1] - It's why you can never see your eyes moving when looking at your reflection in the mirror - but you can see it when you look at the image of a selfie camera on your phone, thanks to the processing lag.

[2] - Hence the analog clock illusion, when you look at a regular analog clock with a second hand, and the first second seems to last longer than it should - the brain is assuming the hand is stationary and it takes until the clock ticks again for it to realize its mistake. This illusion notably doesn't happen on continuous-motion clocks.
Yeah no you don't. Your model of productivity and QoL improvement went off a cliff in the 60s. Since then we have consistently seen stagnant wages, narrowing of social mobility, increases in household debt, increases in required workload to maintain "middle-class" lifestyles, and economic catastrophe in rural communities. Automation in the 70s and 80s gutted manufacturing jobs with no obvious replacement, and that was before entire supply chains were offshored. Advances in ag tech combined with massive consolidation in the industry gutted rural ag communities with no obvious replacement. There are no combination of industries in the US that are reporting a shortfall of ~27M employees, which is the estimated headcount in the combined services industry currently. I see your coy ad hominem bs trying to frame me as a neo-luddite and I'm not impressed.
This is super cool. I share Francois' intuition that the presently data-hungry learning paradigm is not only not generalizable but unsustainable: humans do not need 10,000 examples to tell the difference between cats and dogs, and the main reason computers can today is because we have millions of examples. As a result, it may be hard to transfer knowledge to more esoteric domains where data is expensive, rare, and hard to synthesize.

If I can make one criticism/observation of the tests, it seems that most of them reason about perfect information in a game-theoretic sense. However, many if not most of the more challenging problems we encounter involve hidden information. Poker and negotiations are examples of problem solving in imperfect information scenarios. Smoothly navigating social situations also requires a related problem of working with hidden information.

One of the really interesting things we humans are able to do is to take the rules of a game and generate strategies. While we do have some algorithms which can "teach themselves" e.g. to play go or chess, those same self-play algorithms don't work on hidden information games. One of the really interesting capabilities of any generally-intelligent system would be synthesizing a general problem solver for those kinds of situations as well.
I stand corrected. Admittedly, it was just a feel from somewhere they were related that I had picked up in the last few years.
OpenAI went from a not-for-profit institution seeking to build in a safe and fair way that wouldn't advantage a handful of tech elite to very much the opposite. We can speculate on Musk's own motivations or call him a hypocrite but he's not wrong in pointing out OpenAI's sketchy behavior.
You can read what they have shared about the security aspects of the cloud portion of their AI offering here: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
I feel like that is a separate effect... making you walk past items you might want to get you to buy them vs intentionally confusing you so you forget what you came in for in the first place, which makes you more susceptible the the previous and many other effects.
Elevenlabs, coqui, piper, Microsoft, Google, Apple. Seriously. They all can these days. Don’t forget acapela or nuance.
Some tracks were pre-existing, like those from FSOL, others were specifically written/edited/remixed for the game.
I think that many struggle to understand because they think something like "how would it feel to want to be a woman", rather than flip it to their gender. So if you're a cis man, try to imagine you were a trans man; born female, raised a girl, expected to conform to your local female beauty norms, be expected to bear children, less body hair and muscle mass, curves in places unfamiliar to you, flirted with by men, etc.

It's always hard to truly understand how another person views the world, but I've heard that approach work for others in the past.
TikTok, but Short Stories
I took a pip in good faith. The company gave me a task then told me I was not allowed to complete it. The actual answer was either to take a massive hit in a business deal, or sleep with one of my coworkers. I'm not sure which.

There are real pips, but you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them.
It is the same. Pages and pages of generated content so that 1) they end up higher in Google and 2) when you end up on their page they're able to show you ads / try to sell you stuff.
I would say Fluke's "Atom Bomb" and "Firestarter" by The Prodigy are at least as big as FSOL's "We Have Explosive" which I assume you're referring to?

"Atom Bomb" is much more closely associated with the game, whereas I'd guess many people know "Firestarter" without ever seeing or playing Wipeout games, leaving "We Have Explosive" probably somewhere in the middle.
Well I can app/sms my GF in other room without yelling already. The same with sending her notes on situation in a crowded room or on a bus/train without strangers knowing.

I feel like I have it covered without implanting stuff in my head.
It wasn't in the 2000's back when ATI and NVIDIA cards had comparable prices. Sometimes ATI cost a little more because they were better, but they were never crazy different from NVIDIA.
And there were never supply problems.
My point is that it's arguably not a 'tantrum,' it's actually a strategically worded statement designed for maximum damage to Apple's business. The man isn't actually stupid. Musk is desperately trying to carve out space for his personal brand in AI, and to do that he needs to drag down major players like Apple. I think there's a strong case to be made that that's exactly what his move was.

If he gets serious blowback he can try to claim 'free speech,' but weaponizing speech for malicious purposes/personal gain has never been a protected activity.
https://mw-live.lojban.org/papri/Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis

There was a great writing about it, in great detail. I remember it being "lojban.txt", but I cannot seem to find it. :(
> I don't understand how housing can increase in cost in a stable steady manner, as a fraction of household income over long periods of time like more than 100 years.

It hasn't. House prices have been stable for hundreds of years. They're currently being used as financial vehicles, and as another government asset inflation to ward off that pesky balance of accounts reckoning, but they'll be back down eventually.

Rents are different, probably because landlords collude. Or irrational exuberance or whatever. Times when everybody suddenly agrees that housing is worth a lot more, for no particular reason.

Some guy here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/sq1pb/graph_of_c...) plotted the 2000s housing bubble vs. inflation-predicted price.

I would say that the fact that we didn't see a dip after the bubble makes it pretty obvious that if you deal in financial instruments around houses rather than houses themselves (including rents), there had to be a lot of money made that never came back. Renters never got a refund of the inflated rent that they paid during the time of those inflated house prices; that seems like it would account for the 6.6% a year that this paper claims as the return on owning housing. Because the buying and selling of houses is ultimately going to be a wash.

That says to me that housing bubbles are required in order to make any money from housing. That money will be supplied by renters and overextended owners who can't buy when prices return to the ground, and can't hold out until the next bubble.
I have the PrtScn key set up to open flameshot on my PopOS machine and it works great. I just followed the instructions here: https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/key-bindings/#on-ubuntu-and...
In those dark derelict days, before the brilliant shining light of creation endowed man with the Subway App.
We put a bunch of detail to get started on the guide
https://arcprize.org/guide

Happy to answer any questions you have along the way

(I'm helping run ARC Prize)
Honestly, yeah -- it's not a cheat code, it's facing two sets of pressures from discrimination, not seeing many like you in your field, what you deal with outside of the workplace, etc. And it helped me to see how many people before me succeeded regardless of all that; learning about Lynn Conway ~15 years ago was really important to me.
Lol, man, maybe I'm deluded, but getting a PIP for medical issues only means you work for scumbags. It does not indicate anything about your "business language" needing work.

I've seen managers struggle to emotionally justify firing incompetent dolts. They didn't go "heh, what's the smartest way to scape goat this guy out of here"? Honestly, I would've had a much easier time, but I would've done it in a straightforward way.

If anything, I predict the "common knowledge trait" to shake out of society is "being a good person", and it shook out millennia ago and is pretty common (too common, if anything). If you're not, nobody'll wanna work with you.
Looks nice. I will probably stick with Maccy as it is open source and gets regular updates: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy
Efficient WaveRNN: Block Sparsity
How long has North Korea been working on its new rocket, and who's helping?
Swift tooling has some really! Sharp! Edges!!! If you need something quick and easier than rust or have some reason to want to take your swift code and run it elsewhere I guess this is good but I don't see why you'd use it besides that.
"Now, this is only temporary ... unless it works."