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Especially with stand-alone posts, you need to build trust before you present an argument, or readers might assume the author either does not really know what they are talking about, or maliciously omitting information to steer the decision in the direction they want. Either way, this is a reason to mis-trust the text.

For example, take the first two sentences:

> Pure Python is generally a slow language. Written for performance, it will often be around 40-50 times slower than C, and Python “written for performance” is Python that is very straightforward and does not use many of its features.

It gives correct fact ("pure python is generally slow language") and then talks about Python "written for performance". See the deception? Most readers on reading this sentence would assume that people write pure python for performance. That is simply not the case - high performance Python projects are never pure Python.

If author really thought that "tool choice decisions are complicated", they would have followed up with something like:

... Python project which deal with massive data sets do majority of their logic in C or C++. For example a math simulation which spends most of the time multiplying matrixes in BLAS/LAPACK would be almost as fast as C++ version. So will neural networks which wrap Python around C++ core, or a video processing app which does all the actual work via OpenCV library. But if your use case deals with many small objects (like if you are writing message server), then Python's overhead can be a really big problem.

but I don't see anything like this in the text. And this is why people call this text is "abrasive" and "one-sided" - because it is.
> We can decide to build wind/solar instead of nuclear reactors.

Or add passive safety measures to nuclear power plants. Fukushima failed because it was still generating too much heat, but that excessive heat couldn’t power a turbine to cool itself down.
If you don't think machine learning and neural networks have made massive positive contributions to humanity then you are naive.
Conterpoint:
Phone are small and replace so much more stuff: radio, flashlight, camera, video recorder, landlines, computers, etc.

Grind them up and recycle the metals in them.

in 20 years the tech will be so far more advanced and will lead to even more dematerialisation.

The real waste is the waste of human potential by social media that is destroying the yought for profit.
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Again, this is a rewriting. I'm sure this played a role, but Uber fares are not actually fixed! There's no "per mile" rate, the algorithm is a complete black box! They won because they were cheaper for the consumer.
Yes, Kernighan absolutely didn't mean anything this article talks about.

It's been a while since I read Elements of Programming Style, but most of it is in the form of "here is some bad code we encountered, here is how we made it better, and this is the lesson we can learn from it". Some of these are pretty specific and outdated (e.g. IIRC "avoid Arithmetic IF" is one of them) and others are just basic common sense advice that holds up well today. It's all very down to earth and pragmatic and centred around real-world code.

Taking a quote out of that context and then musing that maybe perhaps possibly the author could have meant something different/deeper with it is not really helpful.
exactly this. i just wrote about my experience here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771683

granted, in my case it was reading in a second language which has its own challenges, but the main point still stands. if i hadn't been able to breeze through that second book i might have come home with the impression that i just can't read english well enough, or that i hate reading english or that english writing is just bad. if i had read that second book first i would probably have realized that hemmingway is just no fun to read, like your experience with moby dick, and i would have asked to pick another book. i don't think that the second book was easier because my english improved by then. if that were the case i should have been able to improve while reading hemmingway, instead of struggling with it to the end.
The title does a disservice to the content.

If you scroll about halfway down, she gets to the meat of her contention with the article (and therefore the incorrectness of the popular take on how current literature education is failing students).

Perhaps intentionally ironically that she would bury the lede of a piece about how people are incapable of reading at length...
I mean it doesn’t necessarily needs 2x QK to match that performance, in terms of accuracy, of a regular transformer right?
I just recently got frigate up and running. How do the other two compare?
the only thing you miss out on without google play services is the wifi/bluetooth location service

gps satellite data comes from a supl server, and supl support is built in to aosp.

now, unfortunately one of the most reliable supl data sources is google, but it's also trivial to run a proxy to mask where you're requesting the supl data from (neither the request nor payload vary)
This must be frustrating to see for all the actual physicists out there. What work in physics got ignored so that a prize for AI could be shoehorned in?

I do think work on neural networks does rise to the level of a Nobel Prize. So I don't have any problem with this work getting such high-level recognition. But I really struggle with the physics classification and the side effect of omitting an award to physicists this cycle.
I never suggested shame as an effective treatment. But refusing to acknowledge the reality of the situation is not an effective way to discuss the problem. Obesity is the result of lifestyle choices, and those choices do impose their costs on everybody in society. Which is why I would be very happy (and I would suggest everybody should be happy) if an effective way to address the problem was discovered.

The fact that an obese person is harming other people as well as themselves might be an uncomfortable truth for them to hear. But ignoring it doesn’t make it go away.
Semantics/pedantry. I’m sure you’re capable of inferring what the OP means.
War with imperial Japan was won with nukes.
I have heard several anecdotes going back the last 15 years from folks who have had surprise meetings or phone calls with the FBI to inform them that some of their IT infrastructure had been compromised by foreign actors.

In each case the FBI wanted to keep the breach open as a honeypot so they could investigate the bad actors, regardless of considering the cost to the business of continuing to leak data about their products/customers/employees.
Congratulations, you're armpits-deep in the Japanese political propaganda machine.

PM Naoto Kan infamously declared "I know nuclear!" in unilaterally ordering TEPCO around during the crisis and ultimately denying their request to scuttle the reactors. Nevermind that TEPCO had the finest nuclear engineers Japan could muster at that moment.

For his valiant achievement of causing a nuclear meltdown and turning back the clock on nuclear power for the better part of a century, PM Naoto Kan was rewarded with merely the loss of his premiership, loss of his parliament seat in the subsequent general election (regained in the same election by proportional vote), and the victim card (sympathy from guys like you).

TEPCO's engineers meanwhile got dragged through the judicial mud before they were finally cleared a few years ago, the train to repair their reputation having left the station long ago.
>You are not going to find 1 or 2 eurocents anymore either

You may want to tell that to my wallet, as well as the payments I make with them. There's a cool 37 billion coins outside in the wild, so you're going to find them rather easily throughout Europe, even if your own country has stopped using them.
I've been a professional software developer for over twenty years and writing software since I was a kid in the late 80s. I understand why it's hard supporting old platforms.

The source code is worthless. It's just one way a company could extend support for older platforms they've given up on supporting. It's not valuable for them to hold on to the sources.

We could all huddle around the existing Unices and BSDs and try to keep the forks going for older platforms. That's fine too.

But the original sources may have hints about how to support some of the custom hardware for a given platform that would be useful, etc.

It really wouldn't be hard for them to just say, "Okay, here's the source for the last build 12.x.x known to run on hardware revision 1.x.x," and leave it at that. Doesn't cost anyone anything.

Update: What's trickier perhaps is supporting older platforms through emulation and only having binaries. Just open the source, Luke.
burn it. burn it all. flames shall devour our world of decadence and sin. we are no longer redeemable
I dont understand the need for this.

I always has used integer data type and counted cents. Why need this?
Yeah, Terry is a rockstar, and pumping out tons of papers. Maybe they google scholared, list by citations?
Oh, good point. Somehow I missed that when looking at the contents. Will need to check again why.
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Even Tron had quite a bit of rotoscoping with a „computer look“, especially the scenes with human actors. Not shots like the lightcycle scene though, those were actual CGI.
I do not understand nor support the vision, no.
People often say that the Turing award is the Nobel Prize of computing but that's not really true. The Turing award is the most prestigious award in computing yes but that's not enough for Noble like recognition/pedigree.

What makes the Nobel prize unique is that almost anyone, even the general public or pioneers in other fields etc can here you received one and be very impressed. You'll generally be met with blank stares if you told anyone not in computing or an enthusiast you'd won a Turing. Even if you then said, "It's the most prestigious award in computing!", it wouldn't hit the same.

Awards like these are basically only really worth their social recognition, so it's no surprise people would still want a Nobel in Computing/Mathematics etc even with Turing/Field etc existing.
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> because hailing a cab was - and still is - a shitty experience

Consumer don't actually care that much about this. They care about price - they're very price sensitive. Uber WAS cheaper, so they won. The experience being better matters a little, but not much. And, again, it's not that much better! Certainly, I can catch a cab much faster than an Uber, and consumers are also time sensitive!

> unapologetically exploitative

As opposed to Uber, who categorizes all their employees as "gig" so they don't have to pay out benefits. And they don't take on any risk with the capital, the employees bring their own capital.

Uber is extremely exploitative both to you, the consumer, and to workers. For you, you're not offered a fix rate. Your rate per mile varies by the minute and by who you are - not unlike a scammy Taxi. The difference is the Taxi's at least would sometimes not be scams and advertise a rate, this is not the case with Uber.
Ad avoidance is a good solution to caring about the games. You can't covet the product if you don't even know it exists. With Nintendo games in particular, it helps that Nintendo is the kind of asshole corporation that copyright strikes third parties showing off their games online. That makes it even easier to not know what their games are.
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Like I said, I get the reasoning, I just think it's a terrible outcome.

> "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass—a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience."

(Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)
> Obesity is the result of lifestyle choices, and those choices do impose their costs on everybody in society

Granted. But why does it need to be said?

I'm a skiier. That lifestyle choice alone probably has a higher risk-adjusted cost to our healthcare system than if I were fat. I'd still miffed if prior to setting a bone my doctor decided to lecture me on the risks of skiing. I'd be positively furious if I got that from my health insurer.

> fact that an obese person is harming other people as well as themselves might be an uncomfortable truth for them to hear

Why do they need to hear it? There isn't a need. What they need is to not be obese anymore. That's treatment. My point is skipping the lecture and going straight to treatment is how we solve most medical problems.
My guess is metformin is here because of its effects on blood sugar. It is available as a prescription drug for this purpose.
But, as you said, Higgs got his prize once theories were tested. Hence, theoretical contributors (still alive as per prize rules) could have been included here as well.
They're generally fine tuned not to. I'm not sure how long that will hold though.
What Nobel-worthy physical, chemical, or biological process has been solved/discovered in silico?
Isn't Samsung's Store and F-Droid all ready third party?
I started learnig rails a couple of months ago. I took a ruby crash course and opened rails guides.

The thing discouraged me to go further was that many sections has work in progress label. I thought I might be looking at the beta docs, but no. I checked the same page down to multiple major version and the work in progress was label was still there.

Coming from Django/Laravel world, incomplete docs discouraged me to try rails.
Well, was there anything in physics more important than AI? No? See...
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Hi all, I just wanted to share a quick utility for converting a PDF to Anki cards. I saw some paid options, but this is a simple enough process that it seemed an open source version should exist. You just have to add your API key in a file called "key.txt" in the same directory.

If anyone wants to improve upon it by refining prompts or doing some post-processing of the cards, please feel free! Also, if anyone knows of a better developed open-source version that's already out there, I'd be happy to start using that instead.
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No, they timed their radar scans so that they caught the F-117 with its bomb bay open.
> Scaring away potential mergers is much, much less valuable than establishing case law or getting legislation passed

There're a few problems with this:

1. Our lawmakers are incredibly inefficient, and many dedicated their lives to ensuring new laws don't get passed. Doesn't matter what the law is, they're career "blockers"

2. Our courts are not unpartisan, and many are conservative-leaning, and they'll simply continually strike down laws until they make it up and up and then the extremely conservative supreme court blocks it. This has been Texas' strategy.
It's because they're cowards yes.
You waste too much. What other people do is not your business.
The question is one of magnitude, not of simple occurrence.

My argument is that de facto banning has little or no effect on accessibility. I'm sure the described book bans have decreased the probability of certain books being read, but again, what is the magnitude of the change? If I were to guess, it's so small as to be almost unmeasurable.
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This is often not what you want with monetary calculations. You want the rounding: you'll be making a payment of $25.86, not $25.85714285714... But you just want to make sure that the next payment is $25.85, not $25.86 or $25.857142851, and that all 7 payments together equal $181 and not $181.02.
I think one clear tradeoff that Kotlin - arguably intentionally - makes, is that it's harder to work with than other languages without the use of an IDE. It is after all made by an IDE developer.

It's also quite a bit more liberal in introducing new features than Java is, and with a larger feature surface there's more potential for misuse.

On balance, I think using Kotlin over Java is worth it, though.
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Also, there’s the Godzilla factor you’d need to consider. It’s cheap to dump radioactive material near a deep-ocean vent until something decides to grow and destroys Tokyo. Again.

Now, seriously, screwing with ecosystems we know nothing about is a very bad idea, even if for no other reason than we being unable to study them after we turn them into radioactive deserts.
Cavalcade [0] is one of my favorite formerly-common (19th century), now-unused words.

It's interesting to see words with strong technological suggestions erase themselves from a language when technology moves on.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cavalcade
So do telescopes. Has anyone every won a Nobel for a telescope?
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Well, my not being obese isn't a moral virtue.
Giorgio Parisi's prize proves the committee gives prizes for theoretical discoveries nowadays. This year's prize is more proof.
So interesting!

Can the AI out-argue anyone yet? Like the best lawyer, the best salesperson, the best comedic putdowns, rap putdowns etc.

Can it increasingly convince people of, say, changing their viewpoints to accept controversial things like polygamy or threesomes, or that war vs a certain country is necessary?

To me, it is this that will be the most dangerous thing at scale.
We have no reliable information about the identity of Homer. All we have are a variety of legends. But there are some decent arguments for thinking that Homer might have been a woman. We just don't know.
Correct.

"Secure delete" is sufficient to prevent forensic traces from persisting in the database file itself. So you could, for example, send the database file over a TCP/IP link after a secure delete and no deleted data would be transmitted.

"Secure delete" is sufficient to remove traces from the database file itself, but
it is not sufficient to remove deleted data from the underlying SSD. That was known from the beginning and should be mentioned in the documentation; if it is not then the documentation needs to be enhanced.
As an experiment I recently switched from iPhone (last 10 years?) to Android. It's been a little painful but:

- nearly all apps support Android as well. The ones I used (navionics, banking apps, WhatsApp) you just log in on Android, no cost involved.
- most Apple first party apps have a Google equivalent (google wallet, google keep notes, google messaging etc.) that is very similar
- my AirPods work equally well with android
Certainly an AI trained on North Korean data would emerge with some very suspect beliefs regarding Kim Jong-Un. My point is just that aligning something with training data is aligning it with truth, to the degree that the training data is true and regardless of why it is true. educate(me, truth) can hardly be called orthogonal to the truth, even if the 'educate' and 'me' terms do nothing to prevent educate(me, falsehood).
It's important to remember that modern LLMs are trained on bloody everything. They know every common logic problem, at least when stated the way they would have seen it.

If you want to test an LLM, always make up a new problem. It can be the same idea as an existing problem, but change all names and numbers.

I tested if GPT 3.5 could recognize chaos theory. If I stated it as the typical "butterfly flaps its wings" it instantly recognized it as the chaos theory example. If I totally changed the problem statement, it correctly identified that weather isn't correlated with a single action by a single person, but it didn't associate it with chaos theory.
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I agree, but these measures are extraordinarily unpopular with the American public. They won't be forever, but until then, we HAVE to keep around "useless" jobs.
Looking forward to Hinton receiving a Fields Medal for inventing backpropagation.
Yes. To elaborate, I think the effect of bans is so small that it's probably not even measurable because we have become amazingly good at distributing textual information.

That does not argue for shutting down libraries. It doesn't make an argument for what to do with libraries at all.
Or they are banks.

Fun fact: I got a permanent ban from the r/cryptocurrency discord for saying exactly this.
It goes both ways.

You must be signed in to the same iCloud account on a personal device and a work device in order to use a feature? Operational security isn't worth the hassle: most people will just do whatever it takes to do the thing. And when they are finished, it's not as if they are likely to sign back out on either device.
The people who decide that the dumping should happen are rich. They make the decision either by directly ordering it, or sometimes indirectly by arranging things so the poor people have no other choice.
It can get tiresome—but, reading as an adult, may have been one of the more interesting parts of the book as I was familiar with the Ahab thread 100x over.
You're mixing up wars.
It seems reasonable that they'd have a requirement there's a single file they'll run, maybe even with a predetermined name like ./build, and that's it.

The developer can then juggle all their dependencies and run make/yarn/npm/etc within that. It's really not different from having a CI build script.
>why was the system set up such that it was not already clearly defined

For the simple reason that the 3/11 Tohoku Earthquake defied and rewrote essentially all the geological/maritime scientific and political expectations up to that point.

I doubt the same errors will happen today, but hindsight is 20/20.
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