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I don't really know how prevalent the phenomenon is nowadays, but there have been "fanboys" for specific console manufacturers for decades now. Even "console wars". In any case, it seems now most people play on PC, barring--yuck--mobile phones.
Two of my research advisers whose dissertations in PhD Physics had Hopfield as their primary reference. I'm also a PhD candidate working on one right now (no longer my primary reference because of all the developments) but I can trace several of my main references back to them.
That's just not even remotely true.

After the PRISM stuff, folks got a lot more savvy with encryption. TLS has been tightened up a lot since then across many fronts (perfect forward secrecy, removing crap roots, certificate transparency, etc).

There's just no way the NSA can be MITMing any reasonable proportion of traffic. Possibly extremely targeted stuff, and sure, there's technically the possibility that Google is handing over keys, but if it was happening at any massive scale, people would now know.

That's why the fight has moved over to metadata now, which is what the three letter agencies are vacuuming up these days.
The Netherlands is often called "Holland" which technically doesn't even exist anymore.

But of course Dutch people don't really care what foreigners call the country, they can use whatever name they come up with it doesn't matter.
Although it's nice that Germany gets it right.
These kind of arguments speak to the fragile ego of some nations.
GPD Pocket 3. It has an 8" screen. It is laptop form factor but the screen can be folded 180 and flat over the keyboard for use as a tablet. Spec page says it can run Windows 11 but comes with Windows 10.

https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3
https://archive.ph/x6BhZ
I think you got it with the third one. Picture an elk wearing saddle bags. A Pack Elk.
> I think what we're asking is what are the implications for the advertisement company.

Higher impressions? Higher integration cost? I guess I'm not sure what the confusion might be. Advertisers obviously want to ram their bullshit down as many eyesockets as they can find.
As far as I can tell, book banning means "Republican elected officials enacting imprecise rules to override to the curation decisions of tax-payer funded school librarians." Personally, I think that many school and city librarians have made egregiously bad curation decisions, but I think trying to legislate better curation decisions through broad guidelines is not the best way to go about fixing things.
There are levels to this. You can make it harder by forcing them to adhere to some boilerplate protocols and quirky patterns and you can make [0] behave as 0. The former is a barrier, the latter is an unnecessary toy that actually messes with beginners. This idea was wrong not because beginners shouldn’t program. It’s wrong cause it makes the road unnecessarily bumpy for everyone. If you have ([T] | T) in your api, which actually was the reason for it, iirc, just make a function toT() that returns T either way.
A plethora or suspicious things? If the companies are breaking the law, the FTC can sue them and win. If the companies are complying with the law, the FTC should indeed do nothing. If the law is bad, congress can pass new laws.

What's not OK is for the executive branch to not like the law, but be unsuccessful at passing new law through the democratic process, and then use the FTC to unsuccessfully sue companies in order to punish them (and threaten others) with costly legal expenses.
Increasing the life-span of mRNA with ML designed untranslated sequences
New preprint from S14's Ginkgo
Much like 30% of Russian drones are not actually shot down but driven off course by EW these days.

Things progress at a ridiculous pace in a high-stakes environment like a war for existence.
it was worth responding to i guess
While “disrupt” is definitely a charged word, I think it’s fair to use in this case. Chip making is monopolistic and kind of stagnant. The existing power resting on a few (like two) enormously valued companies and the difficulty to enter the market makes me root for the underdogs here. It’s a situation that seems appropriate to disrupt.

There’s also the concept of word chasing, where one label is deemed inappropriate to use so everyone switches to a different one which also quickly falls out of favor for the same charged reason. Rather than addressing WHY something is charged, it’s far easier and very pointless to just avoid the word entirely, aside from short term good feelings.
My adviser's PhD dissertation (PhD Physics) has Hopkins as one of her major references. This is grounded in Physics.
> You waste too much.

You have no information about how much waste they produce.

> What other people do is not your business.

We cant comment that grocery stores throw out too much food because it’s not our business?
Some USB keyboards and mice, and some ways of plugging them into the system, can result in noticeable issues like key ghosting and input lag. Thus some people still kept around their PS/2 devices and avoided USB adapters.

This is mostly not a problem nowadays. The issues arose from cheaper/poorly implemented devices and the use of hubs (both internal and external) to provide more ports.
I strongly suspect consciousness will be the next great paradigm in physics, following electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity, now that the ‘detour’ of string theory is mostly behind us. Some, like Penrose, are already thinking about it but too late in their careers to make any breakthroughs.

Machine learning research is the logical entry point as the ‘particle physics’ of cognition and consciousness.

I think in retrospect we will say it was obvious why so many physics PhDs were working on ML during this era.
With regards to "book banning" every example I've seen has been referring to a government library, so the state is involved either way. What is going on is that one arm of the state (elected officials) is fighting another arm of the state (civil service selected librarians).
I recommend the book "How to break up with your phone". I liked it because I thought it gave good practical advice on reducing the most detrimental effects of a smartphone. One of the reviews on the back flap is something like "<This Author> is the Marie Kondo for the mind", and I thought that was a great description.
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NBA Players as Pokemon
This is even wilder than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Morel
Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately there is currently only a Linux build (which happens to also be running under Windows thanks to WSL2) because there is a lot of dependencies[1] to build. Any help to implement a MacOS build would of course be warmly welcomed :)

In the meantime, you can deploy the software from AWS Marketplace[2] and use it through your web browser but note that this is an on-demand paying product.

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or crypto is regular finance

its just a bankruptcy case being handled well, and far faster because of the blockchain records showing where things went.
The context behind this article is that a lot of people (not me) find the innovative thing about Gmail is precisely that it doesn't render email threads as messages built into trees, but instead clusters them into these flat groups (which FWIW I think most people do associate with the term "thread", as you are browsing by thread, not by message). The article then goes through how they came to this new model, rather than merely implementing the thing which every other client does. And like, while you and I dislike this way of using email, it really now is so popular that everyone else feels like they have to copy it as it really is that popular.
Tartufo searches through Git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets
Not necessarily. When I bought a used car a few years ago I got a great rate (< 2.5%) from my local credit union, and the rate the dealership offered was almost as low. Rates are much higher across the board these days, but the principle should still hold.
I can't speak for C# but the Python Decimal type handle significant figures correctly.

> The decimal module incorporates a notion of significant places so that 1.30 + 1.20 is 2.50. The trailing zero is kept to indicate significance. This is the customary presentation for monetary applications. For multiplication, the “schoolbook” approach uses all the figures in the multiplicands. For instance, 1.3 * 1.2 gives 1.56 while 1.30 * 1.20 gives 1.5600.
People have won it over new microscope designs and techniques.. possibly telescopes, too.. but I'm less familiar with that and not somewhere where it's convenient to look it up.
It effectively belongs to Identity Digital, the largest operator of top-level domains. I assume negotiations will shortly commence involving both Mauritius and ID.
The Case Against Documenting Code
No, you can still tell they are machines talking to each other. But it is a nice way to ingest a new product update release when al you are given is a PDF and all you have is time and NotebookLM. Pop that baby in the microwave, let it cook for a little while, and, bam, you've got yourself listening material on the commute to work.
"Massive" seems overstated. Also doubt that it's net positive.
Hacker Breaches NASA's Systems What They Do in Response
> Perf: if you don't care about the size, you might as well use the native size, which is supposed to be faster.

You always care about the size (or should), especially if you're writing C or C++.
Though it is often reasonable that 32767 is a sufficient limit and you're guaranteed at least that with int.
Doesn't matter. He wants to work on AI risk, right?
It happens here in Switzerland. There's even an app where you reserve a "mystery" bag, you go right before the shop closes (which is usually 6 or 7pm) and you get a random assortment based on what's about to expire at a massively reduced price (like 1/3).

Of course you cannot really rely on it if you have a specific meal in mind, but it's pretty good as an add-on, and it makes you try things you wouldn't usually buy.
Timezone conversions don't change by the minute. Currency conversions do.
Literally nothing you said there is compatible with capitalism - which is the predominant religion globally.
Of course there's another reason why physics PhDs are working on ML these days -- it's also the same reason so many of them are Wall Street quants.
This feels.... Weird, It feels like Turing award exist for a reason and Hinton getting Nobel prise in physics is a stretch, unless you claim his contribution extend to things such as development of Alphafold.

In any case, I'm anticipating a long blog post from Schmidhuber about this soon.
Sure there is training - most few practical algorithms have dozens of tunable parameters - bucket size, thresholds, camera settings, image normalization settings and so on. It may not be 175 billion weights, but this still needs plenty of training data.

I've participated in hobby robot competition in the past, which required simple-sounding vision part: find a bright orange object on a green grass in bright sunlight, and very roughly estimate distance. We had to get 200+ training images and manually label each of them to get any sort of decent performance.
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to execute people with knowledge that would otherwise be useful to the enemy. If we didn't, the soviets would. There was a lot to learn from them that didn't have to do with their prior allegiances that proved valuable for weapons development, spycraft, and space exploration.
Ask HN: Why do big companies not add proper changelog for Play Store updates?
I have mostly seen this with Google and Instagram. Whenever I go to see the what's new section in the Play Store version update, I see nothing. For some apps, most of the times it just "bug fixes and stability updates", "made the app look better", etc. Back in the days, we used to get some details about the update, as in what changed. Google Maps introduces breaking changes and yet the changelog message remains the same.
> until they offered me a base salary of $135,000 in Phoenix

It's crazy to me that $11,250/month could be considered low for a comfy job like engineering manager, especially if the work is interesting. The cost of living in Phoenix must be through the roof?
I tend to go to my local town's e-waste collection at the end of every month in search of interesting gems to take home and repair. I find that the majority of e-waste that I see is 10+ year old tvs, 15+ year old Desktop pcs from the P4/core 2 era, and broken LCDs (as in the screen is cracked). Maybe my town is just really frugal but it seems like home users really do hold onto their devices for quite a while.

One thing I do see more often is really low end stuff: generic Chromebooks, all those Chinese knockoffs of popular items (tablets, picture frames etc.). No name electronics (ie Speakers, mp3 players, other consumer electronic junk.) Anything moderately mid tier or higher is used until the 10+ year mark. I suspect that all these items never really saw much use to begin with and with the low spec nature of many of these items, even if they were fully open what could people really do with most of them?

I still totally agree with your stance but I am not sure how much of the bulk it would reduce.
Disclaimer is more often used for humblebrag, not to disclose any information.
Always document your code in a way that you feel the person replacing you some day can come back to and quickly get up to speed on why and how things work. Reclaim your future time by putting a little more effort into the present.
The second sentence was supposed to mean: "hired for their expertise as spies, and despite having been in the secret police or worse".

If that slip is the reason for the downvotes, fine. Otherwise, blame the NYT.
I guess it would be nice to see a comparison with other CRDTs (Automerge, Yjs, Loro) and syncing frameworks/databases (PowerSync, RxDB, SignalDB, InstantDB).
> I’d say western militaries will avoid extreme casualties if they can, but read a bit about the Second Battle of Faluja - the U.S. for example has no problem sending troops into hardcore combat.

I took part in Op Phantom Fury in a support role -- that was 20 years ago next month. And while that was real, intense combat, and several units got mauled, the total casualties on the US side were ~700. That's big for Iraq, and at the time, staggering. I donated a pint and a half of O-, more than I probably should have, because there were a lot of wounded coming in.

At the time we estimated as high as 5000 enemy combatants, and there were ~3000 killed or captured.

But compared to modern peer-vs-peer fights, that's rookie numbers. The Russians were taking ~1500 casualties a day during hard frights in Bakhmut; the Ukranians less, but probably on par with Fallujah coalition casualties.

> In fact, I would argue that the U.S., U.K., Israel, and now Ukraine and Russia are the only countries today that have demonstrated the capability to engage in extremely fierce fighting.

The US (and to some degree NATO) has the capacity, but 20 years of middle east fighting that produced nothing of value have removed the tolerance for more unneeded military adventures. Plus Iraq/AFG didn't send home 10000+ casualties a month. Serious, hardcore combat with commensurate casualties would not sell with the US public, and a large part of Russian / Iranian / Israeli / Chinese, et al politics are based around that perception.
I have to agree with one of the points here that reading curricula has become mired in the archaic past. I would prefer that school cultivate a love for reading in general. Only good can come from young people reading and developing better reading comprehension skills. Offering them more modern reading material that they can connect with seems like the way to go.
I’ve noticed this as well, but actually not sure how the feature works if not over the LAN. Is it bluetooth? Or synced over icloud?
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TikTok sued by 13 states and DC, accused of harming younger users
although I agree because SBF shouldn't have been running the exchange like this at all

the truth is that in the US none of this gets prosecuted while people are making money, or being reimbursed as a remedy at the company's own volition.

very few exceptions, you basically have to piss off a completely different industry, like bragging about raising drug prices instead of silently like everyone else, for prosecutors to search for improper accounting to nail you with.
It becomes again wild when you remember that the Cold War was only "necessary" because of US antagonism post-war. This isn't passing judgment on Soviet policies, only a recognition that conflict might not have been so heated if we'd learned our lesson from how the disintegration of US-Japanese relations had drawn us into the previous war.

Essentially, the US seems to have a habit of being "forced" to ally with undesirable elements after some lapse in geopolitical awareness or effort leads to hostilities (sound familiar?).
Tirzepatide by far
Would be interestimg to see how this compares to hvplot+datashader
x32 was such a waste of time and resources for Intel. While the world was moving to 64 bit, someone at Intel had the "bright" idea to go back to the past, and create a new 32 bit architecture (???) that was incompatible with traditional Windows applications (????)

Now, in 2024, 32 bit cell phone CPUs seem like a distant memory and nobody remembers what the hell x32 was even for.
Neat. It seems to me like this is filling three separate gaps:

- fixed point arithmetic
- tagging values with units
- localization for parsing currency names into units

I'm curious if Kotlin's type system is expressive enough to allow you to catch at compile time cases where you might be trying to, e.g. add USD to GBP.
Interesting. I assumed there was some kind of internal identifier, which was the same between the two variants of the app, but I guess that identifier is just (a hash of?) the public key. Nevertheless, it seems like the Play Store had priority for providing updates.

Tangentially, how does Android handle signing key rotation/expiration?
Derangement? Stalin was extremely suspicious of the west and even went so far as to accuse of us collaborating with Hitler himself. Not only that, the Soviet regime was excessively brutal. One of the worst in history despite not being mentioned much in modern history books. The treatment of captives during wartime, the Eastern Bloc in total, etc. While not a primary source "Soviet War Crimes" has a massive Wikipedia entry detailing just how bad the soviets were. At least related to WW2 alone we can look to how their treatment of the Polish was after pushing Germany out. They murdered Finnish civilians en masse during raids. Further, their deportation campaigns were enough to make most period despots blush.

To believe that anti-Soviet sentiment was "derangement" is extremely delusional.
I guess you'll also want to note that BART later had to refit all those cars with better ventilation because the $1000 saved was false economy. The trains were always hot and smelled bad, especially when they were hauling 420k passengers per day, which was triple the design capacity of the system. The new cars have much better HVAC systems with the fresh air flowing from the ceiling, and during COVID they had to make emergency upgrades to the old cars, too.
I am a physicist working in ML and this is an absolutely bonkers comment lol
The argument is that it's fine to generate AI podcasts for personal use, but please refrain from polluting the public space. Statistically, the majority of AI-generated podcasts found on podcast platforms are produced by spammers, scammers, and blackhat SEOs, which are not for human listeners to consume.
Hallucinate is an awful word because of what it is trying to describe.

Hallucination describes the same feature you just called "non deterministic sampling", but exclusively the cases that we don't like. It would be really convenient if we could actually draw that line, but we can't. If non-determinism is a core feature, then that feature will be present in every case; including the ones we find desirable, and the ones we find undesirable.
AFAIK Fractyl's "drug" is not gene therapy but a surgery where they remove part of the lining of your colon. It is not currently possible (nor will it likely be) to use gene therapy for obesity treatments. The technology is not suitable for this kind of medical application.

slide 5: https://www.fractyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DGVS-2024...
So, you did tests to show that linked lists are slower AND use more memory? Which we both already knew? Why?

> I can also construct cases, where the list is much faster. Adding a one element list/vector to the front:

Oh good, I'll keep that in mind for the next time I am forced to prepend a bunch of items to a list, which I expect to happen approximately 0 times before I die of old age.

> > Are you even capable of admitting that Lisp has serious faults

> You seem to be keen to find "faults". Usually things are not black and white. There is no true and false, but engineering trade-offs. These tradeoffs can Lisp make the wrong choice for problems. Many of the trade-offs are also influenced by non-technical issues: like the amount of engineering time invested into a language implementation: see SUN/Oracles investment into Java.

So... what I'm hearing here is, that no, you aren't capable of admitting that Lisp has faults.

I'm aware that tradeoffs exist. I'm also aware that faults exist. These two can both be true.

It seems to me that being slower and using more memory and getting nothing in return isn't a tradeoff.
I personally went with Joda money versus the Java money API mentioned above. Our needs are a bit simpler and the Joda Money API is a bit simpler to understand. Our app only deals in USD so I wrote a small utility class to help initialize Money instances so devs don't have to write:

Money.of(CurrencyUnit.USD, amount)

...everywhere and do a few other things like total Money instances.
I doubt Japanese ones do.
Is it stagnant, or near-optimal?

We’ve seen eye-watering improvements in chipmaking for decades now. Could be that it is close to perfect at this point and we need new science to make further improvements.
Me too, so I tried to get an objective list. After some prodding, these are the top 5 worrying techbros according to ChatGPT:

1. Elon Musk

2. Mark Zuckerberg

3. Sam Altman

4. Peter Thiel

5. Jeff Bezos
When I was a teenager, about 20 years ago. I read shakespeare without any issues. Beowulf was challenging but doable with effort and didnt require outside source. What has changed so much in the last 20 years that the teenagers should need a translation?
Depends on the quality of the '"lay" public' I guess.

Where I live, in my estimation the 'educated "lay" public' would probably have heard of all the names mentioned, but with even worse notions of what their actual contributions were for Kepler.
The North didn't have problems with drought or distribution. Even though they were invaded by the Confederate army.