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If you make a study that finds that plants don't need water to grow your study is wrong. It's like that here, this isn't one of those things that needs extra evidence or debate.

> This is anti-intellectualism.

And what epithet would you give to those who pretend there is no difference?

> Or maybe the differences are very social and contextual

This is certainly an interesting idea (and one I've heard before). But you have to prove it. You can't just declare "I found no differences, therefor it must be a social difference".

The standard of evidence to declare this is very high, it requires actual proof not just a well reasoned argument.

And you will have to somehow explain all the evidence against this - for example in nordic countries they found that if they give the household enough money the wife prefers to stop working, and stay home. This went against their idea that men and women should be paid the same, and supported identically, because then women will want to work. Instead they found women actually preferred to be home, and they only wanted to work if they had to (i.e. not enough money). Men however had the opposite result.

So their goal of equal employment would require them to reduce support. I'm not sure what the government chose to do.

> are simply too fine-grained to show up.

Then your study is faulty and you should declare "invalid study", not "valid study we found nothing".
I'd say if you are a copywriter, your job is effectively already gone of you aren't using transformer based large language models
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There are currently over 170,000 entries in the dictionary.
Unless something is a binding, baking a package after the programming language is super weird. Like what if you change the implementation language later?
This response feels like you could be conflating desktop usage with enterprise compute?
> I’ll leave it to you to wonder how much of that is competence and how much is successfully pretending to be competent.

It still sets a baseline level of competence, even if it’s not quite as amazing as it appears.

People always think I’m competent, but it’s really me just starting on ‘what I expect people to be doing in half a year’ now, so by the time they start doing it I’ve already gone through all the pitfalls while they weren’t looking.
Love Kernighan, such a humble person. In one of the videos that he was featured on in youtube, he spoke about how he was solving a difficult problem in his thesis which turned out to be NP-complete before the theory had been fleshed out. Emailed him for his thesis and got a pretty quick response, was a really interesting read.
I heard it was that they used seawater not freshwater.

And yes, we'll have to wait a while. Though probably not 2000 years - we only have to wait until our concrete starts failing, which might be a lot sooner than that.
Don't forget 3. Affordability!

Even a $1000 bike would pay itself off within a year versus train fares and it is possible to buy a reasonable used commuter bicycle for hundreds less than that. Cycling is def the most affordable form of transportation out there (aside from walking of course).
No, I'm sorry, there actually are true believers. I think some people just have trouble countenancing the idea that maybe some of the people we've given all the wealth and power to really are just dolts. This tends to have an unraveling effect on people's personal beliefs.
I am not sure where their experimental data came from. I tested it on GPT-4o using the prompt and images they provided, and the success rate was quite high, with significant differences from the results they provided.
It took me what seemed like ages to figure out how to auth into Google cloud because the name of the module in their example code isn’t the name of the package. You shouldn’t have to be a detective to figure out what to pip install from looking at an import.
Sounds interesting! We're trying to figure out if we should be focusing on more modern books even if they're "unproven" or classics even if they're outdated. Sometimes reading the classics can be a lot of fun because, like you said, they serve as historical documents. As someone who started their career a lot later, it's crazy to me that GOTO used to be in style, but I suppose for it to fall out of style there had to be a book arguing against it at some point. It'd be interesting to read the original arguments!
I'm sure they blame it all on remote work, which has nothing at all to do with trying to prop up commercial real estate.
The Economist recently did an analysis of bias on the NYT Best Seller list and (entirely unsurprisingly to anyone with the faintest whiff of objectivity) found it to have a clear political bias.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/06/11/is-the-new-york...
649. It’s a wear item. You replace it when it dies.
Intelligent life isn’t even common on the one planet where we know it exists. You have maybe a dozen species that could go beyond their basal instincts out of millions of forms of life and only a single species has the intelligence to make itself known outside the biosphere.

Life might be common, but “intelligent” life? That seems to be exceedingly rare.
Have you considered that linguists have studied jargon before? There might even be books about it.
I dunno who the target audience is for this, but it for damn sure doesn't even make the XHR to check for equipment

> R: Yes. Machloc.com works with more than 10,000 local suppliers across Quebec, so no matter where you are, we have a location nearby to serve you.

is probably relevant, and should have been included in the submission
yes i remember reading something about somebody compiling it to a unique word! wanted to do similar myself (but didnt fall down that rabbit hole yet) - i feel it should be a set-able in the browser (per tab or whatever) - not to sound like a broken record ha

browsers are supposed to be a tool we humans use, not be controlled by

edit: format maybe one day ill get it right
> is someone checking whether all of the references are actually referenced within the paper?

How would that work for paperback references? That would be a nightmare. If an author cites 20 different sources, verifier needs to checkout 20 sources at the library (if they are even available)
the non-social-media link https://github.com/aenix-io/etcd-await-election (Apache 2)
Tried and quite like this app. Has most of what I need.
Is this built on Expo? I've wanted to build for iOS for decades but never could start on it.
It's not that you need an LLM for OCR but the fact that an LLM can do OCR (and handwriting recognition which is much harder) despite not being made specifically for that purpose is indicative of something. The jump from knowing "this is a picture of a paper with writing on it" like what you get with CLIP to being able to reproduce what's on the paper is, to me, close enough to seeing that the difference isn't meaningful anymore.
An inverse Nadella, wherein you buy a chunk of OpenAI and they turn around and buy a bunch of Azure time (then give it away to people on ChatGPT cuz ain't no one about making money in that business)
Perhaps they promise it and then don't do it?
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Anyone who wants a genuinely detailed treatment of this subject should read Allan McDonald's book "True, Lies O-rings" *. I happened to have finished this a few weeks ago and it goes on my list of all "engineers should read this".

This was really one of the most fascinating books I've read and likely the most definitive treatment of the subject by a subject matter expert. I kind of skimmed the blog article, the book explains in critical detail the issues with the original design and why the re-design (done after the disaster) was a much more robust approach.

In a nutshell the Shuttle SRB field-joint design was taken from a Titan missle design that was deemed to be "solid engineering" because none had blown up, but Allan mentions the SRB field-joint was flawed from the start and the joints suffered rotation and physically moved / flexed. (Later, it turns out a Titan missle exploded and the teardown showed the o-rings a primary point of failure).

Allan mentions it was the blowby past the o-rings that was consistently the issue and the engineers wanted to understand and address this problem for a long time.

What was striking to me, beyond the technical aspects of making these things work is the actual cover-up and attempt on NASA+Thyokol to blame McDonald and others for the resulting disaster. I knew of some parts of this, but you don't realize how messed up the situation was/is until you read the book.

Personally I'd ignore any negative reviews of the book, I think non-engineers, especially those who haven't worked in an Aerospace/Defense environment or in a big company might think Allan is arrogant or boasting, but he starts by providing the foundation for his statements before getting into the details which is a classic "engineer's engineer" way of thinking.

* https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2101296.Allan_J_McDona...
I tried on Intel GPU ( dell xps 9305 ) with Ubuntu 20.04 and it does not open a window, with --foreground that's what I got:

zed --foreground

MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

Is there even more debug available?
Real best practice: don't send them.
Well, I think the binary version still works, even if I see possible improvement. While you think the binary version doesn't work. So sort of the same page, sort of not. Shrug.
Yep! It was a pretty scammy system.

In NA effectively the streetcars were a scheme to sell real estate, with the streetcar being the sweetener to convince people to buy into the neighbourhood.

Once sales were over the streetcar was then a pointless drag on profits. No surprise unscrupulous business persons cut back on maintenance and abandoned the "unprofitable" streetcars.
Awesome! Still looking something like this for telegram
Yeah, you understand and you’re right that the current rules accurately describe the current prevailing wisdom, but that’s kind of tautological.

Some of the weak spots are rational basis review being too deferential. Certainly a law is constitutional unless there is some claim to the contrary, but when it comes into conflict with individual rights, a judgment has to be made and that’s an inherently judicial task, not suited to deference.

Another weak spot is the commerce clause, because it is certainly legitimate evaluate whether the law falls within Congress’s legislative authority. Anyone who reads the enumerated powers can tell “essentially anything” would have been a lot easier write… and yet the founders enumerated specific limited areas.

It’s hard to predict exactly what they’ll say, but my best guess would be focusing more on this connection between the legislative authority and the means employed by the statute, balanced against the rights allegedly being impaired (without regard to whether those are fundamental / class based. If a law is squarely within legislative authority, then congress shouldn’t need a rational basis. Rather than saying it impairs a fundamental right, they could focus on the fact that regulation of speech is not strongly within the legislative authority. As a law ventures further from historical and transitional exercises, the basis for the law would have to get stronger.

Honestly, this isn’t a major change, but erroneous New Deal Era caselaw has corrupted the logic. Sure, in theory everything could be called interstate commerce, but regulating viewpoint based speech is a has a stronger impact on speech than on commerce. Meanwhile, regulating the length of merchant vessels falls a lot closer to regulating seagoing commerce than to speech. No need to apply different standards.
You're right. Why move to a country that thinks you're an abomination? Even though I'm sure you're pretty much immune to persecution as a high-skill expat, even having to hide who you really are too keep the peace just isn't worth it.

I'm not really gay but hetflex/polyamorous and a bit queer and I would not be comfortable being myself there either. Even in the bad areas in Holland I get slurs thrown at me.
My personal opinion about the Big Ball of Mud is that it lacks the visual component makes problems immediately apparent: No one dares to enter a building with a big visible crack along one of its edges, but if such a thing existed in software, management would just tell the team to power through it.

The moment that someone manages to crack the software visualization problem for the layperson, would be the (moment + delay) that considerable effort would actually be invested in software architecture.
Thanks for the links. The approach described in that blog post seems like it could actually achieve crisp, native-looking text. What a welcome improvement that would be compared to the blurry, misshapen, overlapping, or poorly laid out results I've seen from other new GUI frameworks.
When you bring that tax free income home it's no longer tax free of course...
Pillow is a special case, in that it was always meant as a drop in replacement for the PIL, and you only changed the requirements.txt
Great Question (YC W21) is hiring senior Rails engineers in Australia
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>AI-branded product

>look inside Terms of Service

>it's an OpenAI wrapper

I will be legitimately shocked if this company still exists in 6 month's time. Goooooood luck!
Good post. One small correction: Tapinarof isn't an AhR inhibitor, it's an AhR activator, an agonist.

Interestingly, tapinarof is a natural product -- a sort of bacterially-modified stilbene, a chemical cousin of resveratrol and pterostilbene -- and several other natural products also activate AhR. (Though perhaps not exactly in the same way.) The most potent and readily available of these is probably 3,3'-diindolylmethane.
Why did it take the article 7 paragraphs to tell me what the fraud was? Ad revenue driven journalism.
I think the future is pretty bright here in Spain. More importantly, I think things are really fine as they are. We just have to keep the climate deteriorating in check because being in a hot country we're really starting to feel that here.

But overall yeah things are fine. Not seeing great pies in the sky for our future but no big sinkholes either.
actually looking for any problems that may be present with tha actual site
Yes, but training is the most expensive part of ML, for example GPT-3 is estimated to cost something like 1-4 million USD.

With ANN you can do it one time and then clone the result for negligible energy cost.

Maybe training a batch of PNNs in parallel could save some of the energy cost, but I don't know how feasible that is considering they could behave slightly differently during training causing divergence... Now that sarcastic comment at the bottom of this thread is starting to sound relevant "Schools".
I never got these new type editors compared to EMacs.
Thank you for introducing "So Good They Can't Ignore You".
I believe in sugar free soda as an alternative to regular soda, however the "experts" in this article are completely off base to say it is a no brainer to tax other sugary items. Sure, reduction of sugar intake -via soda- was reduced per the article, but sugar intake is not even the right measurement of success. The right measurement is health, were BMI, obesity, diabetes, heart problems, or overall mortality rate reduced. You can cut all the sugar you want but if you are consuming other carbohydrates or calories as a replacement, then you are doing all for naught. Not saying its true, but imagine someone whose hunger is satiated by consuming small amounts of sugar resulting in overall lower calorie intake. Again, sugar intake is a meaningless stat without the resulting health impact being taken into account.
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Quick, someone plot it on a chart correlated with retraction rates!
The Germans are really really good at documenting things. In the US documenting things stuff is often in the hands of people who look good if the numbers are low so... Also, nobody there cares about the homeless. In Germany they all still have social security so they need to be registered.
Vision Transformers do a shocking amount of compression in the tokenizer. In the [Chameleon paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.09818) they say the tokenizer "encodes a 512 × 512 image into 1024 discrete tokens from a codebook of size 8192". That's 256 pixels per token (512 * 512 / 1024). If we assume that a pixel is 24 bits (3x 8 bit channels), this implies that they've compressed 256 * 24 = 6144 bits into 13 = (log2(8192)). [An Image is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation](https://yucornetto.github.io/projects/titok.html) pushes this even further. If these models work similarly, it's no wonder they struggle with some vision tasks.
> people just have very different tolerances for latency and slowness

I've honestly never considered this and it's genius. I have always been surprised when people recommend kitty as a "fast" terminal when it takes 200ms (python interpreter) to start up, which is unbearable to me.

But yeah, people sometimes just open a couple and see speed in other areas that I don't care about.
The BIG observatories are operated semi-remotely; the onsite people are choosing from a preplanned set of observations based on sky conditions etc.

https://www.gemini.edu/observing/start-here

There's plenty of IT-flavored work on site: lots of data being captured / filtered / processed, but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.
These are not business models, but is a quick list of revenue models:

* retail

* advertisements

* subscription

* partnership/affiliate

* white label

* data broker

* consultant/freelancer

* resource timeshare

* licensing

* support fees

Normally business models focus on how to do business, this could include sales or operations, not build revenue. Examples of business models might include:

* security, threat analysis, and risk management framework

* talent identification/acquisition model

* regulatory compliance policy

* performance/research analysis model

* total cost of ownership

* procedures for operations and plans

* knowledge management and internal engagement

* systems architecture
Lots of the app’s UI right now is a layer of components on top of gpui (check out the ui crate!) that are pretty Zed-specific at the moment.

Some of these things will likely be made more general and have dedicated gpui elements built for them (button, input…)

I think not rushing to cover everything right out the gates is giving us the time to feel out apis that feel good to write and work well for us. Hopefully in the near future that translates to a UI library that is awesome for the whole rust community to use.
Hey thank you! I didn't know that, I was still stuck in the thoughts of using Transit Gateways between accounts which of course attracts $$$.
I'm still a fan ~25 years later
It's common to eat shrimps in spite they are quite similar and somewhat related to roly polies. Have a nice day during the next cocktail.

I think I never ate bugs, but I guess it depends on what they eat. Locusts that eat grass like cows would be fine for me.
Do the publishers actually _do_ anything? (Apart from invoicing academic institutions and demanding unpaid work from peer reviewers, of course).

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find they demanded authors create/submit the metadata with the references in it, and that it never gets shown to the unpaid peer reviewers, and is never checked by anybody.
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Make your own point better, without namecalling.
> In summary: our modern computer's sheer power are camouflaging poor software performance. The difference between using native and Electron apps, is a huge reduction in the upper limit of how many things you can do at the same time in your machine, or having a lower ceiling on how many heavy-load work tasks your system can be doing before it breaks.

Same can be said about a lightweight web page and 'React' with tons routers all in SPA and vdom. Maybe the page is fine when it is the only page open, but when there are other SPA also open, then even typing becomes sluggish. Please don't use modern computer's sheer power to camouflaging poor software performance. Always make sure the code uses as little resource as possible.
Are we after the great filter?
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>Regardless of you how you personally feel, the US is inherently statistically unsafe compared to other industrialized nations, especially wealthier ones like Japan, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, etc.

That may be but I don't think homicide is common in the US, even if it is more frequent than elsewhere. 5 in 100k is not common. I don't believe guns are to blame. I also think there are other cultural factors in play as the US is very culturally diverse compared to Nordic countries or Japan. I would be interested to know the number and severity of drug addictions per capita before considering that.

Even reducing my risk of homicide from 5 in 100k to zero would not change my mind about guns. We need them to defend against all aggressors, even government actors. The police do not have a duty to protect you in the US, and even if they did they cannot be everywhere. People are quick to ridicule the idea that guns can protect you against the government these days but the logic is totally sound and has been proven again and again throughout history.
Great plan. Nobody has _ever_ worked out ways to game Google's search algorithms!
The retraction rate might be rising because of non-related, or because AI are being used to find the bad guys and dob them in!
Pretty easy: it certainly won't decrease shootings, and it only needs to contribute to one more shooting to be considered having lead to more shootings. It's not a stretch to believe that will happen on a long enough timeline.

Whether it will contribute to a meaningful increase in shootings is a more interesting question, and on that, I think we both agree that's unlikely.

I do wonder how long it will be before there's a headline about a robbery perpetrated by someone at one of these grocery stores shortly after having purchased more ammunition from the machine, though.
That’s impressive
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> would understand the implications of using a library like leftpad and rely solely on trusted functions like isEven instead.

Tangent — how is isEven trusted? It seems people usually categorize leftpad and isEven pretty similarly (e.g. pointless bloat deps waiting to be next supply-chain attack), so I don’t follow the distinction you’re making.
How do you know they aren’t training it on their internal code?

Since you really need to work hard to make the AI spit out anything verbatim, and you have no knowledge of their internal code, how could you ever prove or deny it?
I'm away from my Linux machine now but I'm curious whether/how you handle reflinks. On a supported file system such as Btrfs which I use, how does `cp --reflink` gets counted? Similar to hard links? I'm curious because I use this feature extensively.
Create and manage your own webrings
If you’ve copied three lines and rearrange and reword them, there’s little infringement left.

If you copy a whole book and do the same, there’s still lines-3 infringement left.
Ah, I'd love to try this. But I have a hard cross-platform requirement (Windows/Linux/MacOS) and I can't seem to get this running in WSL. Will keep checking if that improves in the future.