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"The canon" as most people would recite... Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, etc.... is now at least 60 years old, if not 100. It's a fuzzy thing, but it's certainly old.

Merely being old is not a problem. Great literature is perhaps not literally "timeless", but it can survive being pulled out of its original context, and to the extent that students have to engage with a foreign context, that can be part of the point.

However, that's 60-100 years of language shift since the canon was canonized, and that is a problem. Not necessarily insurmountable, but it's one that needs to be taken into account. I don't see anyone taking it into account, because if anyone questions the canon, they are obviously just a drooling arm-dragging uncultured buffoon who should be evicted from sophisticated society.

But, you know, I'm in my mid-40s, and I've seen real, bona-fide language shifts in American English. Even the English of the 1980s is getting dated. Reading back into the 1950s will result in readers encountering a number of dead words. I remember reading in that era, and every celebrity seemed to be described as "indefatigable". One can assemble from the roots a good guess about what it probably means, and in this case, such a guess is correct, but you can't actually be sure without looking it up or reading it in a lot of contexts. When's the last time you saw an actor described as "indefatigable"?

It doesn't take many of these sorts of things before you are unable to analyze, enjoy, or even necessarily comprehend the "great literature" because you're too busy just figuring what on Earth it is actually saying. It's hard to analyze subtext when you're a normal reader struggling to grasp the text.

Of course, I say this into a culture that is still holding up the original Shakespeare as the sine qua non of Literature, despite the fact it is now over a century past the point that a "normal person" ought to be expected to comprehend it on a base level. If someone wants to teach Shakespeare to a modern teenager, it ought to be done in translation at this point. That I wouldn't mind; there's still a lot of "literature" in it that could be studied through a translation. But the idea that a teenager should be expected to read

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?

and get anything out of it is just insane. At least 4 lines have a major vocabulary issue, more depending on what you expect from your teen. All the rest have at least minor issues, using words that are at least unusual in modern English, and many of them with connotations that are even more unusual if not dead.

But 18th century literature is starting to read similarly to a modern teen, and 19th is a bigger stretch now than it was when I was young. It is not wrong to account for this in trying to figure out how to reach modern students, it's just realism.
by body count? the soviets
yea, this is how I'm interpreting OP's post, they would need to add more context to get better answers
Improving your chances at making a decent living is not the same as striving to become part of the power apparatus, despite the fact that both need money.
Hard times create desperate men who make like hell to everyone else as they lash out. Good times are created by men who care. Good times create nice people.

Fascists seen empathy and niceness as weakness and something bad. They were also something that emerged from hard times and created misery and pain. Lets not promote their ideology.
The amount of people who act like Obama is a war monger without understanding the situation he found himself in is shockingly high, especially on a website like this with its supposedly "educated" people.

Losing the TPP (Minus the IP parts)/Asia Pivot and the focus away from Nuclear Non Proliferation are terrifying. Obama is directly the reason why Myanmar had its democracy for as long as it did, and most people in South East Asia have not found anyone nearly as inspirational as him from America since 2016 and likely won't for awhile longer.

Obama was awesome, and his legacy has been unfairly malingered. He was not the "warmonger" president that revisionists like to portray him as.
From the "Early Days" section:

> PDP-11s still employed (efficient) 16-bit int most of the time, but could use 32-bit long as needed. The 32-bitters used 32-bit int most of the time, which was more efficient, but could express 16-bit via short. Data structures used to communicate among machines avoided int.

Oh, interesting. So "short" meant 16-bit portable integer, "long" meant 32-bit portable integer, and "int" meant fast non-portable integer.
Should work as long as the drone's inertial and visual navigation stay adequate. (I suppose that GPS and the like gets constantly jammed near high-value targets.)
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It's not really all that wild when you consider that they were hired for their impressive achievements in various fields and not their loyalty to the nazi party.
In this episode, Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, emphasizes the importance of creating reliable AI systems for businesses, particularly in the context of using large language models (LLMs). He discusses the challenges associated with typical LLMs, like ChatGPT, which exhibit low accuracy in enterprise applications. Through Snowflake's 'talk-to-your-data' applications, which achieve over 90% reliability, Ramaswamy showcases the company’s commitment to simplifying AI by reducing domain complexity and avoiding the extensive software engineering often required by other systems. He also highlights the significance of leveraging existing AI models effectively, and exploring the vast potential locked within current technologies, even as advancements in AI continue to progress.

* Snowflake's 'talk-to-your-data' applications offer over 90% accuracy, outperforming typical LLMs that only achieve around 45%.

* The need for reliable and simple AI applications in business is crucial, especially in high-stakes environments where errors are intolerable.

* Snowflake emphasizes the importance of restricting domain complexity, allowing users to deploy AI without requiring advanced software engineering.

* Current leading AI models, while evolving, still leave much to be desired in terms of reliability in enterprise contexts.

* Exploring existing models can unlock significant value, indicating that enhancements and optimization of current technologies are still critical.
There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
But is it the matter or the teacher--their own approach or lack of ability--that discourages kids from reading? It's not clear which is the case here.
In the Shakespeare case I’m not even sure reading plays in their entirety is the best way to gain exposure. Plenty of good and reasonably faithful film versions out there.
the Nobel Prize doesn't do mathematics.
And my point is that if you're that certain your 14 yo isn't accessing things you're not aware of, then you must be watching them very close indeed.
> I'm of the opposite mind, I think forcing kids to struggle through books they don't care for creates generations of adults who think they hate reading.

I think it really depends on how it is taught. Also in my 40s, I recently read The Sun Also Rises while on vacation - I just had the feeling I wanted to read a "classic" book, and somehow I didn't have to read that book in high school. I hated the book. I kept waiting for a smidge of effort in wanting to make me care at all about any of the characters, and I just never found it. It was like being forced to go through someone's vacation photos for 10 hours straight, where most of the photos were of alcoholics drinking.

But still, I'm glad I read it. I wanted to understand why Hemingway is considered a literary giant, and his writing style (especially his dialogue) was new and innovative at the time, and influenced lots of other writers. If teachers could help explain books in context (e.g. why is Moby Dick considered a classics novel to begin with) I think a lot of students would better appreciate what they're learning.
> Yes. I was confused by its output, i.e. 2541.91s

Thats the output of the shell command `time` (im using zsh so the output differs from other shells) eg `time cargo build`.

system is the cpu time spent calling kernel functions
and user is the cpu time spent outside kernel functions.
The time is measured per core, so if the program runs for 2 seconds with 16 threads, the user time would be around 32.

Notice there is a cpu metric (1341% cpu), if you do:
(user + system) / cpu * 100 / 60 = ~3.29 minutes = 3m:17s
You can't take this back, this literally just discredited the only nobel that actually mattered, great job discrediting the nobel.
If that was the case then I wouldn't see messages that X or Y commands behavior are going to change in the future. The master branch moral panic thing comes to mind for example.
Just don't have any visitors in your house either, as they might connect it to their cell phone hot spot to watch one of their Netflix shows or similar when you're not looking.

As much as you think this scenario is paranoia, your visitors will think you not connecting your TV is just as paranoid.
> labelling any observable manifestation of poor impulse control as a medical addiction is more of a social trend than a legitimate scientific discovery

What gives you the confidence to overrule medical professionals on this? (Note: I am not a doctor and have zero medical training.)

> We’re all (more or less) exposed to the “addictive substance”, it’s just some people have the ability to deprive ourselves constantly indulging that impulse, while others don’t

One, I’d challenge we’re all similarly exposed. I grew up in a house with no sugary sodas and plenty of leafy greens with each meal. Many people did not.

Two, we know from drug addiction that there is no global measure of addictiveness. Some people can smoke a cigarette or cigar or two, on average, per year. Others get hooked after their first draw. There is no reason to suspect something similar isn’t happening with obesity.
> I don't think that's correct, absent some no-true-scotsman gymnastics.

Yeah, I think OP's claim is not valid. Even .NET provides System.Decimal, which by design and explicitly mentions financial calculations.

Taken from the intro docs:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtim...

> The Decimal value type is appropriate for financial calculations that require large numbers of significant integral and fractional digits and no round-off errors.
>Maybe grocery stores should be forced to better their inventory control.

Throwing away stuff is a loss for stores. They don't want to and make a lot of efforts not to.

The thing is that it is extremely difficult to impossible, especially when consumers demand full shelves all the time.

On the other hand, expired items on shelves is just a shoddy practice.
Greg Egan’s Axiomatic anthology of short stories was the best I read in recent years.
Before LLMs, one would think that about web pages. Now we have The Pile with everything that could be scrapped, regardless of importance or quality.
Have you seen the average person’s Googling skills. How are they going to be able to produce anything complex with an LLM?
Yeah that's nonsense. Uber/Lyft "won" because hailing a cab was - and still is - a shitty experience. The cab industry was unapologetically exploitative and I will Not. Shed. One. Tear. for it.
Book publishers seem to find fault with your argument, as the book bans appear to be rooted in law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93pe9p5479o
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but daddy Cook needs your sweet sweet money :(
You can't establish case law if you don't take cases. Companies not wanting to go through with mergers because they are afraid of the FTC investigating them sounds like a side effect and not the intent.
You could say the same of Unicode, though. Some cultural abstractions become increasingly rigid because they’re embedded in computer systems everywhere.
Do you think this will lead to some kind of price decay scheme based on freshness? I occasionally see something like but nothing regular enough to plan shopping around buying almost expired products.
I wouldn't call that "adding DRM," but certainly a challenge with using FF for screenshots.
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The point of reading education isn't just to get text in front of students' eyeballs. We're trying to develop the ability to read well, to effectively comprehend any text which you might encounter. There's quite a lot of things people might like to do in their lives that involve reading overly flowery or obnoxiously verbose text.

Just yesterday I had to read a super dense and frankly poorly written document for work. If nobody had ever made me slog through something I didn't want to read in school, I suspect I would have been unable to comprehend it and might very well have not made it to the end at all.
It’s because no one wants to wade through the oceans of malware that exist online, and reputation is expensive to build.

I told my family many years ago now that they get no tech support for issues caused by downloading things outside of the App Store. I will download from outside of the App Store, but I have zero confidence that the vast, vast majority of people will ever be able to not get fooled, and if they do, they won’t be able to fix it.

With an Apple problem, my relatives call Apple, and the Apple tech support person remotes into their phone and walks them through a solution. Or gives them a refund.

And the thing with phones and computers these days is that they are your identity, they are your wealth, they are your life. You lose control of that, and you are in for a world of hurt. Someone can clean out your brokerage and bank accounts. The stakes are too high.
I would add to this list Bernard Russel who won the Nobel in literature for being a public intellectual.
Anyone under the age of 21 is a minor in the US. There's a wide range of "minors" who are well into/past puberty. You can have age restrictions without having blanket bans or arbitrary and poorly defined categories of content.

You're also conflating everything that describes or mentions sexuality as "pornographic". Pornography is specifically defined as something designed to sexually arouse the consumer. That's not the same thing at all.
Just a big company pretending to be the little guy being picked on so they play up the little guy with no resources except crowd sourcing aspect. Some people that don't value their time but want to help the little guy that's "protecting the web".

People here have an interesting duality of wanting the big 200k+ faang job, but also expect you to work for free on opensource projects.
> just like diet and exercise stop working if you stop them

I suppose, but that assumes you are viewing them as temporary weight loss interventions rather than lifestyle.

The key is to want to be healthy, and to arrive at a sustainable balance of nutrition and exercise level that works for you to stay at a healthy weight. Fad diets where you are denying yourself pleasures, or going hungry are not sustainable, nor is any extreme exercise regime that you find unpleasant or does not comfortably fit in with your routine.
and 1.10 becomes LTS! exciting
Sadly no, I am still designing and testing the units in the field to make sure they can withstand the elements. I probably should though as I imagine quite a few people would be interested.
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There isn’t a Nobel prize for mathematics. There is the Fields medal but it is different, and not handled by the same organization.
This is an appropriate application of this prize considering the adage that there are now three pillars to science, the third being simulation (after theory and experiment).

Also, many of the underlying theories in machine learning display deep analogy with physical laws we are already familiar with, e.g., thermodynamics.

Machine learning is much bigger than chatbots.
HIMARS is precise, but my understanding maybe 25% are actually getting through to their targets these days. But still until recently Ukraine didn't have anything of comparable capability
> (...) making decisions based on which peer is going to give you a better exchange rate.

Neither does a money data type.
> You IDE can help if there are 500 functions, but nothing would help you if you have 500 micro services.

Using micro-services doesn't mean you're using individual repositories and projects for each one. The best approach I've seen is one repo, with inter-linked packages/assemblies (lingo can vary depending on the language).
> It's most likely just disabled rather than being completely different/non-existent.

As evident by the limited Virtual Memory Swap enabled on iPadOS 16, but not iOS.

All Apple devices use the XNU kernel. But, as the parent blog post shows, the kernel configuration, device tree, and drivers are different.
"Directly from Apple" does not preclude monitoring and control, but it would've notified you on first boot if it were MDM enrolled.
Previous discussion on this article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695587

Discussion from when it actually closed last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734993
You're talking about the generation that grew up with Monty Python and The Goodies.

We were also familiar with the latex puppets because of Spitting Image and the Genesis "Land of Confusion" video.

And the idea of a ball-shaped droid with a Cockney accent just seemed like a big miscalculation, unworthy of the Anderson legacy.

But to be fair, if you go back and watch Space: 1999, most of the episodes aged poorly in retrospect except for one or two of them (e.g., Dragon's Domain still holds up).
One of those videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247JT7ctQ_I
Scaleway Paris is famously slow, used it before and it easily became the bottleneck of an application. Try the Amsterdam buckets.
That's a common partial solution, but it's not complete. For example, it essentially requires you to be able to observe all safety-relevant behaviors of the code in both compilers. This is a much more comprehensive degree of validation than almost any system actually achieves. You also run into issues where the behaviors you're observing (e.g. low bits in floating point results) depend on intimate details of codegen that aren't identical between compilers.

The complete solution depends on the application and the integrity level. It's not one size fits all, but rather about producing documentation showing you've considered various failure modes and developed mitigations for them (or otherwise accept the risk). Sometimes that's binary analysis of the compiled output to ensure it meets some formal model, sometimes that's a formally proven, decent compiler like concert, and so on.

An additional wrinkle is that the business model for high integrity compilers can also be a huge obstacle here. Some charge seats by how many people have modified the code that's running through the compiler. These aren't cheap licenses either, so companies have a large incentive not to use methodologies that require many eyes making all bugs shallow. There are also issues running these compilers in CI. They might require online license verification on every file, for example, or not allow ephemeral licensing at all.
Agreed. When I was growing up, I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. I was equally interested in books about boys, girls, black people, white people, you name it. I read Goosebumps with equal interest as The Babysitters' Club. Having such a wide variety of topics that I read (and consumed in other media) made me a better, more well rounded person.

The idea that people must see things that look like them is toxic. We need to raise children who learn to look past superficial characteristics to see the deep human similarities beneath them, not children who uphold race (etc) as the most important thing you can know about a person.
Here in Canada at least my generation it was The States, The US, even The Boston States but never America.

I also now hear America now from younger people (< age 30) and people now also use the "word" y'all too.

Even US football which never got a second look even Canadian football was mocked (two of nine total teams had the same name) now people have Superbowl parties.

Culture creep is causing USization more rapidly in Canada.
They're not identical but they are related. There's a series of approximations and simplifications you can go through to get from biological neurons to neural nets. Essentially the weights in the neural net end up corresponding to steady-state firing rates of populations of spiking neurons. See for example Chapter 7 of Dayan & Abbott's Theoretical Neuroscience.
The Soviets did the same. Wernher Von Braun was famously recruited despite his past. Top National Socialists were not only recruited for their skills, but also to deny their expertise from the opposing sphere. Many of the common soldiers and officers who were not in the same demand joined the Foreign Legion. Some of those continued on in Africa to become mercenaries.

Otto Skorzeny allegedly worked for the Mossad after working with Nasser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny#Alleged_recruitm...
The Nobel in Physics only goes with experimental discoveries, Peter Higgs didn't get his (deserved since the 70s) until the LHC directly observed the particle.

I agree that Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines are a surprisingly arbitrary choices. It is like they wanted to give a prize to someone for neural networks, but had to pick people from inside their own field to represent the development, which limited the range of options. There is also the aspect of the physics community wanting to give somebody that they liked a Nobel, and then trying to fit them in. (The prize isn't handed out by a shadowy committee of Swedes, there's an involved and highly bureaucratic process for nomination that requires your colleagues to take up your case.)
They mentioned it is bankrupt and by definition creditor rights are curtailed.
What do computer programs have to do with physics?
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I'm sure you can see that the reason people use euphemisms is to fend off precisely this kind of comment.