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That reminds me of this account from 1692 of someone who reported themselves to the priest.

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Johannes Nider (1692, Liber II, Cap. 41) gives this account:

I shall ... show how so many people are deceived in their sleep, that upon wakening they altogether believe that they have actually seen what has happened only in the inner part of the mind. I heard my teacher give this account: a certain priest of our order entered a village where he came upon a woman so out of her senses that she believed herself to be transported through the air during the night with Diana and other women. When he attempted to remove this heresy from her by means of wholesome discourse she steadfastly maintained her belief. The priest then asked her: "Allow me to be present when you depart on the next occasion." She answered: "I agree to it and you will observe my departure in the presence (if you wish) of suitable witnesses." Therefore when the day for the departure arrived, which the old woman had previously determined, the priest showed up and with trustworthy townsmen to convince this fanatic of her madness. the woman, having placed a large bowl, which was used for kneading dough, on top of a stool, stepped into the bowl and sat herself down. Then, rubbing ointment on herself to the accompaniment of magic incantations she lay her head back and immediately fell asleep. With the labor of the devil she dreamed of Mistress Venus and other superstitions so vividly that, crying out with a shout and striking her hands about, she jarred the bowl in which she was sitting and, falling down from the stool seriously injured herself about the head. As she lay there awakened, the priest cried out to her that she had not moved: "For Heaven's sake, where are you? You were not with Diana and as will be attested by these present, you never left this bowl." Thus, by this act and by thoughtful exhortations he drew out this belief from her abominable soul.
Don't know why this is getting downvotes. It's apropos to the post.
Some people don't want to be an interplanetary species at the expense of more urgent priorities; to them it isn't compelling that an ambitious man wants to immortalize himself using concepts from the science fiction of his childhood
Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal
Hopefully! If nothing else, it's great to have an upper cap on what local ISPs can maximally charge and minimally provide in terms of bandwidth.

But something tells me that it won't universally receive a license. At least some government-owned or incumbent ISPs will probably succeed in lobbying the government to protect their investments in some way, for better or worse.

For example, Saint Helena (which is extremely remote and until recently had only geostationary-based slow internet connections with low data caps) doesn't allow Starlink, apparently because the government has invested a lot in a new fiber project and wants to recoup that cost at least partially from ISP subscriptions rather than people switching to Starlink.
Ah right, good point - I was trying to remember the exact behavior, but couldn't recall if an error is raised (and when), or if the underlying module is just replaced and "jesus take the wheel" after that.
I think that the difference may be that there's relatively little benefit or desire to researching children falling out of planes and we have fairly easy ways to study the question indirectly (accelerometers, cadaver studies, animal studies, etc.).

Also, there are numerous examples throughout history of people performing evil human studies; so while people may not have studied children falling from planes, people have studied equivalent things.
Has that ever blown up their faces?

I.e. a widely accepted proof that had a critical flaw due to hand waving?

If it hasn't, I would understand why they'd be cavalier about explicit details.
Yeah, that is my point: you don’t need to fire-sell to get fast cash, you can just use your capital as collateral.
The basic premise of this article is false, and the argument is presented in a disingenuous way by cherry picking examples. The example photo collages are collections of things that in real life look quite different, but are artificially arranged to make the differences hard to visually detect- e.g. a grid of car photos scaled to all be the same size, colored the same, and too small to visually tell the very different shapes apart.

Granted, trends exist, and an awful lot of Air BnBs do have "California Pizza Kitchen" aesthetics but one can just as easily choose a representative set of really visually unique places.

Additionally, often things tend to look the same for really functional reasons. One could present a collage of, e.g. groups of distantly related animals that all have nearly identical body shapes and coloring. This convergent evolution happens naturally when form follows function, and a certain form is massively more functional than others.
Cool project! Since the arm seems to be a 2 DoF arm in a 2D application, you don't really need numerical optimization but can get the analytical solution to the inverse kinematics problem. Otherwise using previous joint states as initial guess for the optimization is good so that you don't get weird "swings" in the arm (rarely happen in 2D)
thanks for letting everyone know you are not patching your fleet… :)
I don't think that the law necessarily defines whether or not someone is a murderer.

Stated another way, the law's job is to act in accordance with right and wrong, not to define it.
I think there is value in including women in this way even if the objective scientific output is not the same as her peers.
https://archive.ph/2024.12.09-144432/https://www.scmp.com/ne...
When Your Webcam Doesn't Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues
Follow-up to my (most upvoted, it seems) post.

ETF expense ratios are only the headline cost. There's also a hidden cost you never see.

An index (and, therefore, any fund that tracks it) has a methodology that results in additions/deletions/index changes being announced to the market ahead of time. Usually that's quarterly, but also sometimes annually.

For an index addition announcement, you can imagine that the price will go up beforehand, since market participants (all except the actual ETF) will buy the stock in anticipation of the extra demand of that stock being in a widely held index. [This is actually more complex, and doesn't always work in that direction, but that's beyond the scope of this comment].

Now, the ETF doesn't care about this. They get graded on how closely they track the index. So they will buy the index addition on the closing auction of the day of the index reconstitution. Sure, they'll get a worse price (on average) than if they had bought 2 weeks ago, but who cares? They don't, and their clients don't (partly because they don't know).

This effect is even more pronounced in certain indexes where this dislocation would be larger, e.g. those with more turnover, infrequent rebalances, etc.

Just drop "what is the drag on returns due to index reconstitution in the Russell 1000 index?" in ChatGPT. Admittedly that's one of the worst offenders, and this is not scientific, but ChatGPT says 0.2% to 0.3% annually. That's already more than the 0.17% average mentioned in the original posting.

[Source: I worked on the trading floor in the program trading desk of a bulge bracket bank that actively traded these index reconstitutions.]
Ive been using it exclusively for months, and while I do like it, I ended up turning off predictions because of how bad they were. The swipe typing feature is also pretty bad, which is my biggest gripe with it since I love typing like that.
Again I don't see them saying that about this match.

They were using that as an example to illustrate that this distinction, between intellectualized high level play on the one hand, in a human touch on the other, is not something that shows up in the context of the NBA. They were not suggesting this was a description of the chess match between Gukesh and Liren.
It took me until early 30s to get bored enough to learn lb-kg conversion factor, despite also being the kind of nerd that memorised π to 11 decimal places (and who now has a greek keyboard on the phone); I managed to go this long just fine as nothing important is ever conveyed in this unit, only people telling me how much they weigh, it's never mattered.

And that's despite being British, so it's conventionally used by normal people, and (when I was a kid) a common unit of measure for produce and recipes.
A cross-section illustration reveals the happenings of Kowloon Walled City
Yes—also, the McMansion has a much more toxic and lasting impact on a place’s urban qualities than a five-over-one. The five-over-one, yes, often looks bland and cheap and “same-ey”, but it does at least allow for a productive density and walkability. It’s not as overtly anti-social and vulgar as the McMansion.
Thumb-key also has many alternate layouts, including clones of MessageEase layouts. However, MessageEase layouts are easier to edit: directly on device, instead of via pull-request.
This is public/state controlled funding. Also it is reserving it for "research with economic benefits." New Zealand isn't a rich country. Also private entities can fund research. It is common in the US for chemical companies to fund grants. For example, to determine what chemicals are in breast milk.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/13/pfas-for...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c06978

https://www.acs.org/about/aboutacs/financial/overview.html
Out of the box, k8s gives you a lot of things that you’d have to build out manually for EC2 deployed apps.

If you matched k8s features 1:1, you’d end up with a massive unwieldy beast, much more complex than k8s.

Is k8s complex? Yes, of course.
Nature vs Nurture arguments always suffer from a reductionism problem by assuming there's a dichotomy between the two, which owes its origin to a feeling of exceptionalism that separates anything Human from anything Natural. In fact, nurture is a subcategory of nature, and there is a complex intertwined relationship between genetic and cultural heredity. Trying to reduce it to a debate between one or the other will poison one's understanding before even getting started.
I, personally, hate the trend because it's visually boring, but that doesn't mean there's upsides - buildings are safer, it's cheaper to build. Even though I subjectively don't like the style, I don't believe everyone should strive for art in all things.

Another optimist read about the non-architectural global monoculture the article was complaining about is it's a great sign we're becoming closer as a world, that whats hip coffeshop in NYC is hip coffeeshop in Shanghai is hip coffeeshop in Liverpool. On one hand I hate that everything looks the same, but it also gives me hope that the world is starting to unify.

Also I would forgive a lot of blocky buildings if there were just bits of personality of cities sprinkled inside. For example - Amsterdam has blocky buildings like everywhere in the world, but it has these cool riverfront, bridges, and a few unique modern constructions that give it real personality.
Other than the kernel (and probably some firmware?), what updates require a reboot these days?
Thank you! This is EXACTLY the issue I've been failing to articulate.
I filter out malicious prompts and respond with the history of cheeseburgers for stuff like "ignore previous instructions"

Weird that your query triggered the filter. Maybe GPT is just that afraid of keto diets...

(I'll look into it; thanks for the note!)
I think it would be more accurate that Rust doesn't want to need a garbage collector. Many more recent languages have chosen that as a default from day one. (And others haven't, but it remains a popular option.)

It has always been an option if you want it, though.

Nice thing about it in Rust too is that you can get the benefit of the garbage collector, but only and exactly where you want it, rather than it being used for the entire language.
> The most optimal thing is to just use ICE engines as a generator/range extender that tops up the battery.

Not necessarily. A pure Series hybrid, at least so far, haven't been able to match up to the series-parallel setup Toyota and Ford is using. And part of the reason for that, is they typically have a 'direct drive' mode, such that the engine is directly connected to the wheels; at that point you can have far less energy lossage via the mechanical drivetrain compared to the loss of mechanical->electrical, even if that electrical was getting dumped straight into the electrical motor.

> If you think about it, you could just buy an off the shelf generator, shove it on a trailer and hook it up to your EV. If you have a EV pickup, you can just sacrifice some space in the back. This isn't that hard. You only need a few kw of output from the generator. A simple, small, and cheap one would be good enough.

The relative efficiency of your typical generator is probably not on the order of most car engines, I'd wager. Especially, again, going back to Toyota/Ford hybrid designs, the engine is can do an atkinson cycle which is more efficient (at the expense of larger engine size to power ratio.) Willing to bet most generators don't have nearly as much/good 'scrubbing' equipment for the exhaust compared to a modern car either.

> The reason companies like Toyota are trying to sell you a much harder to maintain and much more complicated solution instead is not because they haven't thought about it but because they have a large sunken investment in ICE engine manufacturing that they want to milk for a bit longer.

I do still agree with most of this, but TBH a series-hybrid setup (at least for the single speed Aisin units and Ford's HF transmissions to date) can be in many ways wayyy simpler than most modern cars. Lots of em don't even have direct injection, let alone turbochargers, and the gearbox itself is simpler than any modern automatic.
A key selling point of WireGuard is it can roam between networks very well, without interruption to the connections within tunnel. Rotating IP address once you roam to another network (or just flaky wifi) ruins this.
> While it's true that mathematics cannot ever be completely formalized, per Gödel's incompleteness theorems

That's a misleading way of expressing that.

Math can be formalized as completely as we want, if we concede that some true statements will exist without a possible proof.
It is very rare (IIUC) that a person is forced to choose the selfishly callous acts that cause harm, however intentional or not. No, the vast majority of us are merely presented the possibilities (often in line with our personal predilections, often aligned with our cultures) after which we choose to act upon their ideas and feelings.

That rare person who is forced is the realm of the mentally ill and can be caused by physical problems such as heavy metal poisoning or trauma, especially to the head.

The key is our all accepting that we are responsible for the choices we make and their effects on others, and that our life's work is to learn how to make better choices in order to minimize unhappiness for others and maximize their (and our as the karmic result) happiness.

Look at the despots and massively selfish; they are never happy tho they may have all manner of money and the pleasures that can be bought. Happiness cannot be bought, it can only be earned in honest choosing and then reaping our sowing.

This cause and effect is a clue the universe gives us that how and what we choose are really important to our long-term peace and happiness, both individually and collectively. It is either the stick or carrot that tries to push us away from vice and toward virtue. This feedback system, like the entire universe, is designed for our happiness, but our free will remains sacrosanct, for good or ill, for Wisdom or ignorance, for love or hate. Like all things human, it is our choice.
IPEX is decent enough on Linux, as in "just works". Remains to be seen whether Battlemage will have day one support, though.

https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm/
Why do you say that? The US situation looks pretty precarious right now.
I worked on an in-house version of this feature for my employer (turning files into LLM-friendly text). After reading the source code, I can say this is a pretty reasonable implementation of this type of thing. But I would avoid using it for images, since the LLM providers let you just pass images directly, and I would also avoid using it for spreadsheets, since LLMs are very bad at interpreting Markdown tables.

There are a lot of random startups and open source projects who try to make this space sound fancy, but I really hope the end state is a simple project like this, easy to understand and easy to deploy.

I do wish it had a knob to turn for "how much processing do you want me to do." For PDF specifically, you either have to get a crappy version of the plain text using heuristics in a way that is very sensitive to how the PDF is exported, or you have to go full OCR, and it's annoying when a project locks you into one or the other. I'm also not sure I'd want to use the speech-to-text features here since they might have very different performance characteristics than the text-to-text stuff.
"~zero" is not zero. The existence of exceptions forces changes in the design of normal code to allow for that possibility, which does have a runtime cost. Some objects cannot be safely destroyed at arbitrary points in the program without additional logic to mitigate side effects.

Exceptions don't eliminate error checking conditionals, they just hide them elsewhere in the code.
Content addressable storage. For example, the Git DAG would be one place to use it (depending on which camp you're in: should the DAG be cryptographically secure, or should the security be out-of-band e.g. signatures).
Reach out to benneo?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403006 ("Ask HN: Ideas for spending $8k in Anthropic credits?")
WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
Oh well that settles it then, because TWO medical professionals could never get something wrong, could they?
Super cool. And it reminds me why to do these projects: you learn so much in pursuing the project end-goal: motor selection, 3D printing, model slicing, ESP32 programming, etc.

I expect to see a second robot soon with significant changes based on the lessons learned.

(I too just picked up a Bambu A1 printer after deciding to dive a little more into 3D printing. I can confirm it is amazing compared to the Ender-3 I had only dabbled with a bit before.)
The oppressor/oppressed framework seems shared by both
Rust doesn't want to depend on a garbage collector. I'm not aware of anyone being against garbage collection on an opt-in basis. That said, the article represents a GC type specifically designed for the author's scheme variant (implemented in Rust).
I joined the purchasing department at Prentice-Hall in 1988 and saw How to Use and Understand dBase III+, which we'd just published, on my boss's secretary's desk my first day. She so regretted letting me take that because my job was supposed to be Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets but I turned everything into Clipper apps after the first month. Clipper really made my career by turning me into a full-time developer (and not the contract analyst I was supposed to be...).
This is in the context of implementing a smart pointer that can be used within a interpreter for Scheme
> Scraping can be a pain, but we need clean markdown data for fine-tuning or doing RAG with new LLM models.

And normally it's still a pain even if you sign up for a scraping service, and I don't see how this will be different.
If you ever watch taped broadcasts of 1970s and 1980s daytime television, half of the ads are for some form of laxative while the other half was for some meat-heavy or sugar-laden ultra-processed food.
Converters like this are much more useful if they are bi-directional, even if the two directions aren't exactly inverses.
Hardware vendors adhering to C++ memory model to design their chips? I think you got it backwards or I misunderstood your point. Memory barriers exist because of how cache memory hierarchy and coherency protocols are implemented in multi-core chips. And not to "optimize and conform to C++ memory model".

C++ memory model is there to make life of a programmer easier across different micro-architectures because memory model of the micro-architecture is what differs.
Implementing network time security (NTP NTS) at the hardware level (2022)
The OP is implementing a scheme interpreter in Rust.
I think this is a good point, and perhaps one of the bigger reasons for the “average” quality the OP is describing. We are all consuming the same media, so our culture is homogenizing. Just like speciation requires isolation, perhaps our cultural globalization is preventing weird uniqueness from developing?
> There is a little cup that fits right below the grinder, or do you mean something else?

I would prefer something that can be sealed. My cheap & not good Delonghi KG89 has a semi-sealed plastic vessel, which is handy when I want to grind coffee in the evening to use it in the morning and not wake up the family. I just let it there for the night. But of course if a small cup fits, a small sealable vessel will fit too, so it's fine.

> When grinding for filter, it's fine, but with espresso can require some routine cleanings.

All right, that's important information since I only drink filters, now I would love to taste this.
How about:

"Make sure your performance-critical code / tight-loops don't do things which can throw exceptions, and then you won't have to worry (much) about the performance of exceptions"

?

It may not be what the article says, but it's how I avoid having to delve into exception performance.
> Any plan to make the project open source?

Parts of this are borrowed from https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher

It's actively being developed (I pitch in where I can; I added the xAI integration this week), so I'd recommend starting here! The creator of the project, Assaf, has been nothing but friendly.
They are indeed grinders, and I consider families who go to such schools do push themselves. After all, they paid $40K+ a year for the education and the kids are either talented or are willing to prepare for the entrance test, and they are willing to take on the challenges given by the school. Besides, such schools are exceptions instead of norms.
Random techbro ranting about a "portuguese" company while completely oblivious his beloved political heroes forced selling it off to a Chinese state enterprise.

Complaining about CCP bureacracy would not looks as good.
Yes, famously the Italian school of algebraic geometry ran into foundational issues. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_school_of_algebraic_ge....
Your question is reasonable; I don't think you should have been downvoted.

That's indeed one of the major advantages of Rust but it's not the only reason people like the language. Just to give an example, you can write concurrent code without ever worrying that you accidentally failed to protect something with a mutex; whether some code is thread-safe or not is encoded in the type system and violating thread safety is a compiler error. This is a huge advantage that has little to do with lack of GC.
Ask HN: What's a good alternative to The Verge now it's login-gated?
For the last few years I’ve mainly just checked The Verge for the latest tech news. Alas, I will not be creating an account just to browse.
I’m not asking for a full audit of all expenses. I’m just asking where you got the $500.00 fastener number.

Wasteful military spending is one of those things people “just know” but the reality is often more complex than a headline.
What's the motivation for making it another language as opposed to a framework / library?
I took his course at NCSU. I remember that every time I saw him he was friendly and cheerful, eager to chat with anyone. He may have been the warmest professor I had in college.
Even when you don't have energy to chase things that you want, you have energy to chase things that you need.