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HYTRADBOI 2022 had 571 attendees (https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytradboi-2022-po...). At that point even one matrix chat room per track became hard to follow.

I'm looking forward to doing it on zulip instead. Having unread counts per thread should make it much easier for speakers to keep track of which questions they haven't answered yet.
I never expected to see headlines like "Authorities investigate Bayesian disaster".
> My impression has always been that people hate having their time wasted.

They do. This is why pedestrians jaywalk to begin with. Can't be bothered to have their time wasted by the law.
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I agree with you in spirit. In reality, the "I quit my cushy 9-5 job to make my own game" is such a meme in my industry that I want to have a plan B and C for if/when I fail.

And right now I barely have a Plan A.
100%

The only point from the article I agree with strongly would be putting the keyboard away for a bit and picking up a pencil & some paper and trying out some rough sketches (though I think you can do this just as well at your regular desk)
Yeah, as others mentioned, uploading pictures is a way, writing in latex is another way. Upload pictures costs more than latex but is more convenient. Both of them works well
For DNS-based on openwrt specifically: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking

Try them out and see which one you prefer.

All these work similarly to pihole.
If you choose an option that integrates with ipset, you can get slightly stronger than by blocking IPs associated with hostnames.

As others mentioned, it's good to couple with a client-side filter like uBlock origin.
You’re most likely confusing Flutter with the Python team which was laid off but the work moved to a team in Germany. The Flutter team has not been laid off to my knowledge.
Do you just inherently accept the result of a query? Or do you always carry some skepticism around? Something something build trust through fact checking.
Why would they intentionally limit that?
> Your personal desire for controlling other people.

Well that’s just childish, pouty, and not a very well thought out train of thought on the subject.

The control isn’t over people, it’s about finding a solution to creating and preserving market share via device reliability on the platform. There are 1.4B iPhone users (and that’s a real number, not a fantasy), and not every one of those people is savvy enough to vet their applications before installation. If installation of any app was wide open you would have a large portion of those 1.4B accidentally installing crap. They may have 100 apps on their phone but if 1 is a piece of shit and broken (and yes conservatively at least 1% of apps out there probably have a bug bad enough to wreck some havoc) and it renders the reliability of the phone to shit that’s bad. If the market perceives that the reliability of the device is shit, Apple loses either in increasing or preserving market share for the device. Apple needs those devices need to work reliably and it feels that one way to do that is vetting the apps that will be running on it. The hardware is great, the OS does its job making the hardware platform operational, but the one place where there is the opportunity to introduce instability is in the apps. So you do your best to control that area of instability opportunity on your platform.

Here is the beautiful thing for you…there plenty of other phones out there that will allow you to install whatever the hell you want. Apple only has 16% of the worldwide smartphone market share.

https://backlinko.com/iphone-users#iphone-key-stats
Add *.google.com to the blacklist: problem solved.
Except there is an overabundance of historical evidence of hedge funds giving almost exclusive preference to research which is highly predictable and has negligible impact, as long as it can result in a patent.

See for example below. Aging research is one of the most eclectic areas, because it touches on virtually all biological systems. There are countless promising directions which are grossly underexplored. Yet this massive hedge fund chose to invest in discovering new analogs to older drugs. Why? Because the older drugs are effective, discovering new analogs is easy and the patented products can then be marketed.

For general overview of the fund: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/07/1053132/saudi-ar...

Their first major investment was in analogues of a decades old drug called rapamycin: https://www.hevolution.com/en/web/guest/w/hevolution-foundat...

So, yes. There is a provable cabal of mustache twirling investors who optimise for profit, at the cost of impact. Why you would defend them, in spite of your self-professed rational interest in the positive externalities of revolutionary healthcare, is beyond me.
Rust's borrow checker proves some invariants that the code always upholds. Valgrind only checks that this run hasn't triggered some undefined behavior so far, it's always possible that (ab)using it further or another run with different input might.
Do you have a recommendation for having frame by frame control of a file?

I am trying to synchronize multiple video files that have uneven framerates. I have separate metadata containing the frame timing.

The video files are .ts (mpeg stream) files.
Yea this seems to be a really big misconception. There is nothing magical about pi-hole that requires a Raspberry Pi or even the actual pi-hole software either. It’s just dnsmasq. A generic Linux box running dnsmasq gets you 95% of what branded “pi-hole” gets you.
If you have a list of links of stuff Pythagoras did (whether disputed or not), do let me know. I'd happily gobble them up.
Yeah embeddings are the unsung killer feature of LLMs
We had this long time before, it is called "books". It is also not very usable for niche topics, or for recent events (because curators need time to react).
Now let’s talk about something I don’t really do, go in someone’s mouth taking food.

I’d rather be eighty year old me than twenty year old you.
Agree. Education doesn't like sport, just for a peak time, education is about long term human well-being
If there is one tool (if I can call it that) that changed my life, it is Org Mode. I was a Vim guy who in a desperate attempt to get digitally organised was forced to give Org Mode a try and got sucked into Emacs. I now live better organised, with far less anxiety and remain unfazed at the multi-tasking demands of the corporate world, all thanks to this major mode.
Fair point. I think just that there's a general acceptance that "something must be done" and that the government are the people to do it is pretty alarming. It's a short step from here to a Ministry of Truth, and I can see Australia taking that step pretty soon.
Thanks for the feedback —- can you share a bit more about what you feel has gotten worse? Have you just been using the default model?
My computer is not even one year old and my 7800x3d is already two numbers behind? Wow.

Turns out it was all a waste because I haven’t played anything anyway, being an adult and all
What happens if a country that's currently at the new UTC-12 anchor wants to move back an hour under that system? Are they forced to "wrap around" and move to the next day instead? Or do you move the anchor itself back (to UTC-13) just to accommodate them?
>There's no profit in laying off workers who are making the company more than they cost.

Yeah there are. If a worker is paid $100k, makes 1M for the company, but you have a 20M dollar tax incentive to bring people back to office: it doesn't matter if that worker is a 10x-er. It is more profitable to tank your productivity so you get a cushy tax break if that worker can't/doesn't want to RTO.

That was my core point on this "social contract" being broken. Companies are more interested in finding loopholes to save money than ways to make their products more attractive and grow other revenue sectors. There are a dozen more examples of this. It's not that they aren't productive, it's that the company found non-labor ways to make or save money.

>Where workers often miss perspective on this is in looking only at the smaller picture. Things can be making money in the small picture while not being profitable in the big picture,

And it's where companies miss when they look at next quarters earnings call instead of years later. Boieng is reaping it's rewards from over a decade of doing this. You can't screw over your employees and degrade quality to a point of costing lives and then suddenly wonder where it all went wrong.
Pi-Hole is the worst-named software. You don’t need to buy a Raspberry Pi to block ads at the DNS layer, and you don’t even need branded pi-hole software. It’s just dnsmasq which can run on anything.
I'm just speaking from personal experience. That example was real, Firefox did not work with hardware accelerated video decode out of the box for me under Fedora, which was pretty high impact with that machine being used for studying. I got it working and it's kept working since, but like I said, it took some tinkering.

macOS has its own oddities of course, but they don't impede such basic usage as video playback.
I wish I knew of a good way to voice chat with Claude, and unfortunately, the new mobile app isn’t it. The voice recognition is terrible. Does it just use iOS’s built-in text-to-speech? It needs to be as good as Whisper to be useful.
Yes we are. You're in denial that most of these layoffs are performance based, and not because of factors beyond their control.

If you're cynical about your peers to think that the default of them in the field is unprofitable and unproductive, we have nothing to say to each other. Learn some empathy.
Calling off-label repurposing of established drugs "under explored" is a bit insulting to all those people that attempt it all the time, without a higher success rate than any other method. Folks like Razelle Kuzrock make great progress, and the "under exploration" is more about not spending enough time exploring RNA or protein diagnostics rather than DNA diagnostics, if anything. Which isn't due to lack of impact or profit optimization, just due to intuition biases of the field.

Calling profit and impact optimization "uncorrelated" is not justified by your comment. The biggest impact in the past decade of cancer has undoubtedly been immunotherapies, which are also by far hugely profitable. And immunotherapies themselves were often a backwater, far more so than drug repurposing, until the impact came through with a patented drug.
>Optane NVMe at 16GB is cheap, like twenty bucks, buy three of them and use a mirrored pair of two for your ZIL.

I've been building a home media server lately and have thought about doing something like this. However, there's a big problem: these little 16GB Optane drives are NVMe. My main boot drive and where I keep the apps is also NVME (not mirrored, yet: for now I'm just regularly copying to the spinning disks for backup, but a mirror would be better). So ideally that's 4 NVMe drives, and that's with me "cheating" and making the boot drive a partition on the main NVMe drive instead of a separate drive as normally recommended.

So where are you supposed to plug all these things in? My pretty-typical motherboard has only 2 NVMe slots, one that connects directly to the CPU (PCIe 4.0) and one that connects through the chipset (slower PCIe 3.0). Is the normal method to use some kind of PCIe-to-NVMe adapter card and plug that into the PCIe x16 video slot?
I'm not sure why the voyage-3 models aren't on the MTEB leaderboard. The code for the leaderboard suggests they should be there: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard/commit/b7faae...

But I don't see them when I filter the list for 'voyage'.
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Two things I don't get here.

First: if I am not happy with my site's placement in google (I don't care, but if I did), and I complain, nobody would even acknowledge my existence. I have no idea how I could even talk to a live human working for Google. People who get invited to "conversation" are obviously very special. In what way? What did they do to deserve that?

Second: certain people built their business on certain aspects of behavior of certain technology that does not belong to them and they have zero control over. These aspects changed, and their business is suffering. I understand their frustration. But why do they expect that the technology owner would do anything to help them? They aren't their paying clients. The technology owner's interests are in no way aligned with theirs. Why do they think anything would be done?

Oh, and also - why do they think anything can be done? I mean Google's codebase by now is decades of code stacked on top of older code. Probably nobody even knows how all of it works. I mean some people probably know how some parts work, but overall likely nobody knows why the ranking is such and not other. And each change shuffles things around and some pages go up and some go down. Why should anybody in Google prioritize the complaints of those who went down, and even if they did - it only would result in replacing one group of complainers with a similar group of complainers with identical complaints. It is obvious that there's no perfect ranking that would satisfy everyone, and likely at the complexity it is every change leads to unpredictable chain of rearrangements. Googlers can politely listen to those who got unlucky but they likely can't promise them anything more than that.
Working on it. But that's a dismissive answer from someone who's never actually ran a business.

>work for a local mom and pop shop instead of a publicly traded company?

I'm open to it. They literally aren't hiring tho. They get the most impacted in a downturn, so I get it.
Does it allow you to create custom agents like OpenAIs GPTs? I can't find it in the documentation.
I'm torn between the new M4 MBP and a Framework laptop with Linux for my personal computer. Can you share some deciding factors for you? Does it mostly come down to the OS? How is the battery life with the Framework?
> For the foreseeable future, games will still need to look good without fully path traced lighting.

And in 7-10 years when the software stack is matured, we'll be thanking ourselves for doing this in hardware the right way. I don't understand why planning for the future is considered so wasteful - this is an architecture Apple can re-use for future hardware and scale to larger GPUs. Maybe it doesn't make sense for Macs today, but in 5 years that may no longer be the case. Now people don't have to throw away a perfectly good computer made in these twilight years of Moore's law.

For non-games applications like Blender or Cinema4D, having hardware-accelerated ray tracing and denoising is already a game-changer. Instead of switching between preview and render layers, you can interact with a production-quality render in real time. Materials are properly emissive and transmissive, PBR and normal maps composite naturally instead of needing different settings, and you can count the time it takes before getting an acceptable frame in milliseconds, not minutes.

I don't often give Apple the benefit of the doubt, but hardware-accelerated ray tracing is a no-brainer here. If they aren't going to abandon Metal, and they intend to maintain their minuscule foothold in PC gaming, they have to lay the groundwork for future titles to get developed on. They have the hardware investment, they have the capital to invest in their software, and their competitors like Khronos (apparently) and Microsoft both had ray tracing APIs for years when Apple finally released theirs.
Geniuses are more rare than autistic people so while it is safe to assume that most autistic people are not geniuses it’s still very possible that a genius is much more likely to be autistic than the general population. You’re using a conditional probability incorrectly to straw-man your fallacy.

By my observations geniuses are very likely to be on the spectrum. At least 50%.

I really don’t know what the normal programmer experience is like, I exited the labor market before the DEI stuff really got traction. My rule of thumb is, of all the code that I’ve seen that I’ve been impressed by, it’s far more likely to be written by a transwoman than a non-trans woman by a significant margin. A disappointing observation for a straight male who had aspirations of dating a hacker-girl. Additionally the more impressive the code the higher percentage likelihood of transgenderism, I do think high IQ, autism spectrum / ADHD, and transgenderism are rather correlated.
At the risk of derailing the conversation down a completely different rabbit hole... As I understand it, only citizens are legally entitled to vote, and voting requires a government-issued ID and the voter to be enrolled.

How did they vote and get away with it previously?

(also, as per another comment, if you know that this happened then surely they didn't get away with it?)
>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't break the rules if you want to stay a part of this community.
Especially sugar in non-desserts. There is nothing wrong with a sweet piece of cake, but food industry is putting sugar everywhere.

And replacing sugar with sweeteners is even worse.
I think paying $115 an hour for a 'coach' to help with a mental disorder is just called psychiatry.
IIRC it uses tamper evident hardware.

There was an interview with one of the Profs who designed the EVMs here.
Of course they must. It's a two ton block of metal traveling at about 10 meters per second. Not yielding to the massive energetic slab of metal is quite simply irrational. Cars yield to trucks too. Anyone who doesn't has some kind of death wish. Some reality denying law doesn't really invalidate physics.

That's what always gets me with these "won't you think of the poor pedestrian" arguments. I never see people arguing for their god given right to stand in front a moving locomotive. Aircraft? Only time pedestrians are allowed anywhere near the runways where they accelerate is to board the plane. But somehow with cars it's alright. Dude walks in front of a train and it's suicide. Same dude walks in front of a car and it's murder.
Part of it also that this isn't a regular language. The PCRE is more powerful a language than a Chomsky type 3 language in that there are strings that can be matched by a PCRE (such as a prime number expressed in unary) that are not recognized in a pure regular language.

Extending finite automata to efficiently match Perl-compatible regular expressions - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544037
DNS filtering is good enough these days. I have very few ad-thirsty apps that I need. On my Android VPN + Cromite browser does the job, on my PC uBlock Lite will do it.

Am always using gluetun VPN hosted on a VPS with these two options: BLOCK_ADS=on BLOCK_SURVEILLANCE=on and I don't see any ads anywhere, even on the Twitter site!
What is a not-alarming answer to “Who gets to decide what’s true?”
Reminds me of in the olden days, nonprofits would often send donation return envelopes with valid, non-cancelled stamps on them.

If you weren't inclined to send in another donation, you could remove those stamps and use them for your own mail!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hippo_bill
To be fair, dead and dying people are pretty bad at paying bills. Even assuming staggering, unrealistic levels of corruption in all parts of healthcare, someone in the chain ought to be financially motivated to see the patient recover.
Obviously off-topic, but see the recent case of the Chinese student who illegally voted and then turned himself in.
I’m sure if that is the issue we can together find a way to sponsor a MacBook with an M3? Or does it specifically have to be a Mac mini?
To redistribute wealth from pockets of fools and corporations willing to pay.
I think that would be Google's approach, before they were waylaid by ad revenue incentives: that question intent can best be inferred by knowing as much about the asker as possible.

But I feel optimizing for lazy question phrasing is infantilizing the userbase and assuming they're incapable of learning how to ask more precise questions.

Which is an endemic problem in the modern web. We should be building systems with low barriers to simple adoption, but whose power scales with a user's expertise.

Instead, we're hyperoptimizing for lowest common denominator, first interaction and as a result putting a glass ceiling on system power.
The name is surprising. First time I’ve seen a pyxxx that is not a python package
There's a difference between "it happens regularly" and "no one is safe". We're arguably structured like a gig economy so unemployment rates won't represent the differece on a chart

You should bring a chart on the average tenure at a single company.
The article seems to have the same definition as you.
This boils the problem down to a dichotomy which isn’t how it works in the real world. Most of the searches I make that aren’t tech related searches have a location based aspect to them. Anything I do in my day to day life involving logistics has a high chance of needing some location based search. Kagi (and DDG) performs at a range of 0% usefulness to 70% usefulness on average for these kinds of searches. Usually it’s 0%. There is simply a huge gap here in what Kagi offers when you need to search for results near you vs the leading competitor
Scale is a bit of an issue.

We need results in as short a time as possible, ws have about 100 crore registered voters, of whom about 70% on average vote, meaning that the ECI must process 70 Crore votes, in under 10 hours.

Making that happen in a free and fair way is a logistical challenge, one that we undertake every 5 years.

One more large advantage of EVMs is making booth capture very expensive (because EVMs have a inbuilt rate limit, but a ballot box does not).

At any rate, with VVPAT being there, it adds another layer of security.
It doesn’t matter when you waste someone’s time; work hours are fungible for most professionals. Your ‘wild guess’ seems very convenient with respect to your previous comment, and happens to be incorrect.
That was kinda my point - my friend had been so conditioned by the "can they vote" thing that he genuinely thought that non-citizens could legally vote in US elections.

If I had phrased the question as "is it legal for non-citizens to vote in US elections?" then that might have illustrated my point better (and we wouldn't be going down this rabbit hole, though the rabbit hole is informative in itself).
> "The ship was an unsinkable ship. I say it, I repeat it."

Saying that when the boat is nearly 200 feet under the surface of the sea seems insane.
Yeah you gotta watch out for those "Etc" identifiers, especially if you were thinking about exposing all the identifiers to your users wholesale. The file for them has this comment:

> POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses the abbreviation "-04" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich).
awesome-- thanks for the rec!
Fetch.ai anyone?
Google makes money if you click through to a site that displays Google ads. This includes doubleclick, which is pay per impression and is owned by Google.