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"It's not fate, it is expression of variance within a known or unknown distribution, and we can do more to understand it" --

In the end, you have fate within a certain variance. Generally speaking, it is better to know that you have 1 chance in 10 than 1 in I don't know how many chances, but still getting one outcome or the other is what we call “fate” or unexplainable/unpredictable/unforeseeable circumstances.

A probabilistic/statistical view of life that goes beyond the simpler but tremendously wrong dichotomous view is one of the best tools one can use to make life better for oneself and more readable in general.
I appreciate the need for some semblance of uniformity, but surely we can read A Tale of Two Cities on both a Kindle and on paper without any substantial sacrifice in understanding. It is merely the appearance that I wish to differentiate, not the ontology.

In fact, thanks to your comment, I strengthened my conviction that the ontology needs to be foreground and center in all cases instead of the appearance(s), which receive substantial, and IMO excessive, attention.
Turn your Android phone into a garage door opener (with a USB attachment)

Turn your Android phone into a laser pointer (with a USB attachment)

Turn your Android phone into a bowling ball (by submerging it in resin that is then shaped into a bowling ball)
This unit(1), with dual waveguides, looks crazy!

(1) https://industrialmicrowavesystems.com/microwave-systems/
LINEAR went into operation 1998, and got a second telescope in 1999. Big joint project between NASA, USAF, and MIT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Near-Earth_Asteroid_Re...
Good observation.

The answer is at the beginning of your statement: "human nature".

In plain English: there's no solution to that.
OK sure, bad example. A Photoshop .psd file then.
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I assume gcc can do it, since gcc can target far smaller/more complex/more niche 8 bit architectures.
Are you actually familiar with those projects, or are you just posting links?

Nano Framework is a framework to run C# apps on microcontrollers - but when you get to the hardware interfacing, it's done in C++. Look at https://github.com/nanoframework/nf-Community-Targets/tree/m... for an example. It appears to be using the ChibiOS RTOS at the low level.

Wilderness Labs have built a C# runtime on a microcontroller. But if you got access to their source code, I can guarantee that somewhere there's C++ or C code setting everything up, kicking off the virtual machine etc.

Nobody is claiming that you can't run bytecode-compiled scripting languages on embedded targets. Hell, you can even emulate other CPUs on embedded targets. But ultimately to set up a microcontroller and use its peripherals you need to be able to read and write registers on the memory bus, which means you need to be able to create assembly that the CPU understands.

There are projects to compile C# directly to machine code, bypassing the need for C++, C or Rust to set everything up. But those aren't at all mainstream. C# code expects a memory allocator and garbage collector. You'd have to explicitly run those somehow.

If you're already going to have to write some sort of board support package in a language that compiles directly to ARM machine code, then Rust is a great candidate. And if you're already writing your board support package in Rust, it might make sense to write your business logic in Rust too.
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I didn't even think like that, I'll rethink about the wording more.

Glad you like it though.
Scrolling a bit down,

> ARPA is a programming language that uses the same C# syntax but can be written entirely in Turkish.
Python: Range is not an iterator (2018)
> their advancement in formal theorem proving is hindered by a lack of training data

'Formal' which here means inputs to a proof verifier/proof assistant, and I think most people would accept it as a given that by the extremely data-hungry standards of LLMs there is a severe lack of such data, and that this is a severe hindrance to getting an LLM to generalise. The question is how they might scale with more training data.
Thanks for sharing. This is really well done! A lot of SCP content is disturbing on some level, but I think this one is especially so because underneath it's really a human story that's unfortunately pretty commonplace.
It isn't. It intentionally gives quotes retracted or out of context.
>I'm not stopping you from being anti religious, or anti Christian.

I am a catholic, but thanks for the "anti Christian" label, you see that's what i mean with extremism ;)
This seems more an introduction to training than a tensor library :P
I don’t think conker players pretend it’s a sport. It would ihmo be more accurate to call it a game.
Mainstay? First I'm hearing of it. I thought it was an onion article at first. It's really hard to tell when British people are serious sometimes. "Conker King"...like, WTH?
I have omron it has been at least 10 points lower then my other ihealth cuff. I even sent it in, they said was fine. Had the dr check it as well. It was always 10 points lower. I read that omron measures differently than the typical bpm.
Wow this is super neat. I wonder why it isn’t enabled by default.
Wot. Everyone has an old throwaway?
I had the same thought when reading and I don't see why not as long as you make sure you drop the older commits correctly.
Fixed it, there shouldn't be that much requests now!
Yep. Not that it’s necessarily happening here, but I always…sigh deeply, let’s say, when something that’s described by Americans as “an $x industry problem” is actually ‘an America problem, manifesting in the $x industry’.
The Dutch are direct.

In Britain you’re not allowed to be.
You'd need an encyclopedia to have any real chance of understanding what kind of game it is, a dictionary typically only gives very small amounts of context.
> WordPress usage has plateaued.

Spot on in observing this, everything else is not so tangible.

It does not really go into what the future of the web will look like, except maybe even more shifting to hosted walled gardens, but that's not exactly breaking news.
> If the key is 'revokable' that is a weakness in it self.

Ish. The threat of that is part of a different risk model, and probably less serious.

A long-lived certificate that ends up being able to be used by a malicious party (perhaps due to a leak of the private key) could be serious for many users if the certificate can't be reliably revoked, which they currently can't be.

A mistaken or malicious revocation if someone were to manage that could be an issue to the service operator (users can't get in) but this is a safer failure than users connecting to a malicious shadow service due, for example, to an accidentally exposed private key and a DNS poisoning attack.

As others have mentioned: if revocation worked better currently, this would be less of an issue.
Yes. Just imagine the Binary stars being very close compared to the distance to the habitable world. E.g. two sun-like stars in sun-mercury distance, and an earth-like planet somewhere between mars and jupiter.

Three-body problems can be chaotic and can be ugly. But in the simplest case you can make them look like two-body problems and things will be just fine.
If developers can’t produce code without bugs, what good are they? /s
First question, does it pronounce numbers > 9 correctly? At least OpenAI's model doesn't perform at all, marking garbage out of almost every number it finds. I actually dont remember if I checked with EleventLabs... But I was shocked enough that in 2024, someone could release a TTS model that doesn't do numbers correctly. As if the AI industry was approaching Xerox level of failings. However, the TTS models are way worse then the Xerox compression algo ever was.

I believe verifying numbers up to at least 100000 should be a requirement for new TTS models.
It's odd how Hollywood goes to extreme lengths to make people's faces visible under/despite helmets. I wonder if this is related to the fact that we've evolved for some reason to have visible sclera?

1. I saw some Planet of the Apes remake tiktok recently, but the huge sclera pretty much squicked me on their costuming.

(then again, I really appreciated the sclera on Khryusha the pig; maybe because he's not supposed to be a realistic character?)

2. Some coats of arms have battle helmets; some have barred-face helmets. I always figured the latter were designed to make it easier to drink at the beer tent, but maybe even they agreed with Hollywood on the visibility issue?

the Roman (allies') sol'n: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesa_helmet

3. Disney used to have an exercise for animators: make a sack of flour emote. Maybe actors who intend to play hard characters ought to have to do the screen test with a bag over their head?
No. They might trust your professional judgement, and not all professional judgement has roots in academic publications.
> before the US election

Aren't these happening regularly ? We're always before a US election
Many are complaining that this way the engineers are incentivised to carelessly create bugs because they have to ship fast and won’t be responsible for fixing them.

That’s easy to fix with an exception: you won’t have to worry about support for X time unless you’re the one who recently made the bug.

It turns out that once they’re responsible for their bugs, there won’t actually be that many bugs and so interruptions to a focused engineer will be rare.

That's how we do it in my startup. We have six engineers, most are even pretty junior. Only one will be responsible for support in any given sprint and often he’ll have time left over to work on other things e.g. updating dependencies.
> A tool for filling the fields with papier-mache cows.

Cargo culting as a service.
Apparently he has been cleared by VAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKIbq2FuG8
There has been considerable progress since Sutton wrote. The latest models don't even need convolutions and certain kinds of invariances. Visual Transformer models don't even necessarily know which pixels are near each other. They figure it out through correlations.

I was skeptical of the statistical approach myself, but I think it's time for some humility in the face of its wild success.
What’s the waste disposal story nowadays?
Original paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6b29
Looked it up- coal power/ gaspower plants are also uninsureable - if you consider the longterm fallout.
I’m getting the same, on my phone, over 5g
I'm not going to go through the list individually, but I can't use a mouse for ergonomic reasons (literally have bones where I shouldn't, so these are fairly unique ergonomic problems), and my laptop already doesn't ventilate very well, so I'm still a lot more interested in something very subtle, like a picture frame on my desk, that wouldn't make me look as weird as I'd look with half a dozen wired things in different places.

It's not freezing in my workspace, just a few degrees cooler than I would like, and something inconspicuous like this seems like a great idea!
So someone else took advantage of a backdoor? Color me shocked
> just solving the problem for the input data

I think a lot of people here would be surprised how much of a step up this is from classic leetcode or DSA stuff. I have been involved in introducing people to AoC and helping them and the amount of people who have basic knowledge of algorithms but struggled to parse the input from a file was a little shocking to me at first. Of course, I do not blame anyone for not knowing something, classic academic courses can be misguided sometimes.

This doesn't negate the fact that there is somewhat of a lack in problems with more outside world interaction and it would be cool to see more of that.
My dentist back in the 80s didn't even wear gloves, he was an older man but I can't imagine gloves were not required then or even when he would have trained in the 40s or 50s.
Ah, that explains the downvotes. Sorry. My browser just doesn't send a referrer for clicked links, so I didn't notice.
I guess this is about predictability.

I know what (and where) the problematic spots are for the lane-keeping, so I use it in situations where the benefit is large and the risk is manageable.

There are many places where I won't switch it on and just drive myself.

Also 99% vs 1% depends on how you look at it. The main road I drive is about 200km long, in one direction it does not have any problematic spots. In the other it has 2 lets say 10 meter spots. By distance it's 0.01% problematic. It's not like Desert Bus where it tries to get you all the time.
I get anxious when taking blood pressure as well. There are techniques your wife can try before entering the cryo-chamber look up the 478 breathing technique. I developed a white coat blood pressure readings over the last several years measuring a stage one or stage two hypertension at my last doctor visit. I use the 478 breathing technique and my blood pressure readings are normal at my last dr visit.
I an not getting the benefit here, apart
from adding some cool technology.

How is al of this easer than just having a
script that uses ftp/sftp/rclone/rsync/webDav
to upload ht images to the CDN?

You could make it part of your publishing step,
so you would not have to run the script yourself
every time.
This car is in EU.
I agree. But then there remains a doubt if product is only perceived as good-to-have, meaning less/no monetization potential.

Might be suitable for side projects, but not for full time entrepreneurship commitment.
NASA funding far exceeds SpaceX’s and always has. It shouldn’t take 4% of the US federal budget (NASA funding during Apollo) to run a hardware-rich design process!
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Note that "optometrist" is distinct from "ophthalmologist", which is the actual eye doctor. The optometrist job is only about fitting glasses and contacts for near/farsightedness, while ophthalmologists can treat all manners of eye diseases.

And the final form of dentists, oral-maxillofacial surgeons are an all in one and have to study general medicine, surgery and dentistry.
https://archive.ph/L1Umr
My middle age country offers largely free dental care (not for crowns and implants, unfortunately)
The answer is sometimes. Typically it'll forget rules you've given it by the time it might be useful because of the memory limit of LLMs. Either way, you basically need to know it's hallucinating to you so you can keep applying more rules.
Currently? It provides no benefit and depending on receiver might even be negative, but if an AM receiver was designed to demodulate the sidebands independently and average their output might indeed gain slightly better noise rejection than using just one sideband. That is the idea being suggested by the person talking about a stacked image analogy.

The first step to improving AM (while making the receiver more complex) was removing the carrier wave, which is responsible for most of the transmitted energy (Double-sideband reduced carrier modulation, or DSB-SC). Then, to improve efficiency further without increasing receiver complexity too much, the second sideband is removed (Single-sideband suppressed carrier, SSB-SC - commonly just SSB).

The only benefit of traditional AM is transmitter and receiver simplicity. If you start increasing the complexity, there is no longer any point to using it.
You have to back your own product, and people will notice if you don't.

Consider the alternatives: the most popular icon set is called Font Awesome
I'd rather learn how to rewrite Git in Go tbf, if only to explain Merkle Trees.

Isn't blockchain last years grift? It's all AI grifting, now.
There is a lot of space to stare at!
The Economics of Haunted Houses
Thanks, those are very good points!

Intuitively it makes a lot of sense that asking for boilerplate code for Flask (to name something widely used and documented) these AI bots could perform way better than on something for which much less content exists, as with the scenario I described.
Awesome article and glad you pointed towards the YouTube video, where Lovelock was interviewed, which ultimately answered my question: can Cryogenics be used to freeze humans? According to that fascinating and interesting video, answer (for now) is no because "it's partly a matter of how quickly you can get anti-freeze agent to diffuse into the cells ... humans too big."
Seems fine as long as the same is done for apps from Google Play too.

Which of course it isn't.
It depends a bit on the nature of a fork (not all forks are made equal!); here's my experience with forks:

* Feature forks - exists because upstream doesn't want to merge a certain (set of) features for whatever reason. These aren't necessarily hostile forks, it's just that upstream didn't use a forkable/modifiable license to accept third party patches. There's a lot of these sorts of "stacks" (a lot of them written in Ruby, which in my experience has very bad separation of the device it's running on and the source code), where portability outside of upstreams deployment just isn't a concern. For these, frequent rebases are fine - the feature forks only has a single developer, is unlikely to need many external contributions and can often just subsist by mainting a couple of .patch/.diff files for each major release (depending on how much the forker cares). This type of fork isn't really seeking to be its own project. It's also the type that the post is talking about, where you can effectively maintain your patches as single rebases, which saves some mental overhead. (Icecat is an example of this sort of fork, although for rather silly reasons.)

* "Soft" hostile forks. Upstream isn't bad or dangerous, but is notoriously unresponsive on issues they should be responsive on. The fork has it's own governance, but it's very much a skeleton and merging upstream code is a major priority to keep the project going. These projects tend to either fizzle out, fall back in-line with upstream or become a true hostile fork.

* True Hostile Forks: Upstream has lost its marbles. They're unreliable and can't be build further on. Worst case scenario; the fork is downstream only in the sense that the upstream shouldn't be used anymore. Here, merging upstream code is either to be avoided or should be checked the same as a third party contribution.
Or easier, do an interactive rebase and mark the last commit which is in the partial-rebase branch for editing. Then, do `git reset --hard partial-rebase` and continue the rebase.
>Mainstay? First I'm hearing of it.

You say this as if you were British, but then the rest of your comment seems to suggest that you're not (in which case it's not surprising that you might be unaware of some aspects of British playground culture).
Is your opinion based on evidence? Sorry for sounding harsh, the article is about evidence, but your comment seems to be more based on feels / ick / sheen / vibe of squeaky cleanliness.
If it's imagine vs imagine: I imagine that a washed and disinfected hand without open wounds has no measurable risks, and the tactile feedback the dentist gets may improve the treatment.
Technical AI interviewers – yay or nay?
Hi chat, wanted to get your opinion on voice AI that can conduct technical interviewers:

Lately there's been a lot of opposition around Leetcode/Hackerrank style quizzes for screening candidates because it doesnt evaluate a candidate on what's important for a SWE today.

Parallely cost and capabilities of LLM inferences have become really good and voice is more human-like than ever. So a new interface for assessing candidates that resembles a live coding interview being done by a helpful yet objective multimodal AI should theoretically be a great alternative.

I would love to hear from fellow Technical Recruiters and Engineers alike on what you think about this format?
Interesting. I haven't gone to recruiters but I would assume going as a group makes their jobs easier. We've done some moderately successful startups (small non-US market, though) in the past, but I don't think anyone has the appetite (or ideas) to realistically bootstrap again right now.
Apollo was wound down because the government wanted NASA to focus on the space shuttle and all sorts of other things as well as slashing the total budget by a huge amount.

So, while in theory it may have had the money, in practice it did not.
You said the same thing I said... You only get basic care to survive, nothing else.

The system is different but this aspect is pretty much the same everywhere around here.
That makes a huge amount more sense. Thanks!
It's open-source. Why don't you contribute a logo or open an issue if you feel so strongly about it?
Literally the first video I watched, 2:28 min in, kid gets knocked in the teeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egBjZaKNLuc
Equipment certification for aircraft no longer in production is not at all related to the simplicity of AM. Certification complexity would have been exactly the same if FM had been selected as the standard back in the day.
I honestly can't believe you're British and have never heard of conkers.

It is a part of our culture, like pubs, pooh sticks, morriss dancing or cheese rolling.

It would be a totally valid citizenship question.

Maybe you're a city child?
As I recall, didn't Catholics cement themselves as anti-Christian religuous extremists with the Albigensian Crusade?

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius seems pretty extreme.

Apocryphal quotes aside there's a well documented long history of intolerance of core cannon heresy.
1. When product is new, those users can provide critical feedback to achieve PMF.
2. If product is listed on a platform like Android/iOS, installation numbers work as social validation.
3. They will be more inclined towards referral marketing for incentives like extra credits.

We had an interesting discussion on Reddit yesterday about the same https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1g3e211/how_do_yo...
I have taken my 3 decades of personal experience - hundreds of situations - and combined it with what my family, friends and acquaintances experienced. It's really not just me. And the national news say the exact same thing - healthcare is expensive, inadequate and unavailable (you wait for months - if you find a doctor that would take you, which is definitely not guaranteed).
> The UK has the exact opposite of this. Everything that's for sale here is finely graded according to the buyer's budget and taste. Where someone chooses to do something as innocuous as their grocery shopping in the UK says an awful lot about them.

Just sayin', I went shopping in... Denver? Let's just say that there was a mall with a bunch of shops and further down the street another bunch of shops.

The public at Nordstrom was wildly different than at the Gap which was also different than the one at Ross.

Similar story for stuff like Walmart versus Whole Foods.

The US has a lot of social stratification, too. They just like to ignore those parts, especially in their advertising.
Very similar prices in Spain too, funny how the UK is generally considered _very_ expensive for dental work, in fact I just paid 40 EUR for an x-ray here yesterday.
Rails 7.1 Raises Error on Assignment to Readonly Attributes
Ok thank you for clarifying. then i misread the original comment.
Zoom through a browser only.

As for the rest, they may have "analytics" (spyware) but are there any documented cases of any of them acting as an X11 keyloggers or covertly screenshotting the users desktop? Those are the threats Wayland asks us to fear. And Wayland won't protect us from the rest. If Firefox or Audacity phone home with reports about what I'm doing with those applications, Wayland won't stand in the way.
I expect this is referring to Intel's proposed X86S spec: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
It's not really an option because we need to be able to style it.
yes, and it should ask pin while installing from google play too.
Yeah, we're living on some strange version of Angel One.