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> 50% reduction: +2ºC by 2100

This is a fantasy. That's the problem. It will not happen. Not even close.

> you are caught in some kind of thought trap

The ones caught in a thought trap are people who actually believe things such as actually being able to reduce world-wide emissions by 50% in a few dozen years. It's impossible. Truly impossible. It will not happen. No matter what the US and Europe might do to destroy their entire economies.

The truth is uncomfortable. I get it. It is far easier to get onboard a religion than to challenge it and understand reality.

All I can say is: Remember this conversation and, in ten and twenty years, check what you thought you knew against future reality.

I have been doing this now for about twenty years. So far, none of what the merchants of fear and marketers of (fake) solutions has aligned with reality. In fact, this profitable cult goes back farther than that, with guys like Al Gore (Inconvenient Truth) pushing various end-of-the-world predictions as far back the 1980's and, arguably, as far back as the 1970's. These people pushed bullshit like the planet facing "full ecosystem collapse" in 8 to 10 years; with different forms of this delusion promoted in the '80's, '90's, 2000's, etc.
I wonder if it's also easier for people who have less family relationships going on.

Me and my girlfriends are all distant from our families. If I regularly visited my parents and siblings and spent time with them, I'd have less time for romantic partners.

I wonder if there's a need for secure family-like relationships, and where the family of origin has failed, people are more likely to seek that feeling from romantic partners. "There is no form of incest greater than T4T"
Of the two I'm only familiar with Rogan. People have been pointing out his right wing political tendencies for quite a while. But it's not long ago that you'd have been downvoted into oblivion by his fans for describing Rogan as 'alt right'.
I've been "learning Japanese" for like 20 years now, but from the US. During that time, I've heard a few times that it's possible to live in Japan in a "Gaijin bubble" where you deliberately surround yourself with other foreigners and remove the necessity to learn the local language.

After trying a ton of ways to learn, I think what was most effective was some kind of structured learning combined with using the language to consume content. For me, that was listening to anime (weak learning) and reading untranslated manga (much stronger) and even some really easy light novels. The structured content was necessary for the initial hurdle, but still provided more learning than the Japanese content, but the JP content provided stickiness for the structured learning.

They're both necessary.

If I lived in Japan, that "Japanese content" would have been just going out into the world and interacting with Japanese people, sticking to Japanese as much as possible.

I went there for a couple weeks once, and I didn't use my Japanese much, but what I did use still sticks with me to this day. Doing that more and more would be incredibly effective.

So if you want Anki to be your "structured content", that's probably fine. And that deck is probably a decent one. I have a feeling a pre-designed course (such as Duo Lingo or a Learn German book) would be better, but motivation and sticking to it is more important than anything.

You just need to pick something and stick to it, and use it in real life.
I think the approximate reciprocal approach is interesting here. The doc mentions multiplying the dividend by ~1.00025 in the math to avoid FP error so you don’t end up off-by-one after truncation, but I think this hack is still incomplete! On some inputs (like 255, or other unlucky divisors near powers of two), you might get borderline rounding behaviour that flips a bit of the final integer. It’s easy to forget that single-precision floats don’t line up neatly with every 8bit integer ratio in real code, and a single off-by-one can break pixel ops or feed subtle bugs into a bigger pipeline.

I suspect a hybrid scheme like using approximate reciprocals for most values but punting to scalar for unlucky ones could handle these corner cases without killing performance. That’d be interesting to benchmark
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It's not always true that progressives are for more government power. See the death penalty for example. It's pretty much the ultimate power a government could have, and who advocates for it? It's not progressives I believe.
It would be nice if Google actually used the preferred language. They don't give a shit. I'm still getting maps and other stuff in local language based on IP.
I think Pimsleur was a great help for listening and speaking, but I think you need something for basic vocabulary to go with it. It simply doesn't have the breadth you need to get by in daily life.
Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware how damaging that was to UK energy prices.
I love PowerPC but I still don't believe CPU architecture alone is a motivating factor for why any person would choose to use a particular computer over any other. If that were true then Stebe Jovs never would have told me about The Megahertz Myth, now welcome Phil S[c]hiller to the stage to run the PentiumⅡ machine for this specially-scripted Photoshop benchmark, et cetera.
I may be in the minority, but I don’t see any appeal to AI generated art. I’m not sure which positive emotion it is supposed to evoke.

I also dislike heavily edited photos for the same reason. At some point it is no longer real. That point is debatable, but AI generated art is the complete end of the spectrum of not real.

Do people enjoy looking at nice things which humans (or, perhaps God/science if we are talking about nature) did not create? Its a genuine question because I don’t get it myself.
This is beta version. By the time they're done with this it'll be measured in single digit dollars, if not cents.
It it apparently _is_ an actual problem, which is why an attempt at solving it is being made. A black market for reservations is bad not just for customers, but for the establishment that loses out on business if the reservations aren't actually sold, and therefore nobody shows up.
Yes! The Obsidian Web Clipper is pretty neat. I just published an article about it: https://www.dsebastien.net/supercharge-your-knowledge-captur...
Each layer of the network is like a step, and each token prediction is a repeat of those layers with the previous output fed back into it. So you have steps and a memory.
This smells like accidental complexity. What's the point if you have to use the chain in a very specific way, and it can only achieve one thing? That could just be made a single op.

This seems like yet another way for ferrying code/state machines into the kernel. We already have bpf.
Yeah, not even being pedantic, I still think you're wrong. AI may solve some problems by linking together various bits from its training, and put together very coherent responses, but at least currently, we're not headed in a direction that will produce the kind of leaps of imagination and intuition that humans are capable of.

Heck, nobody can even agree on what consciousness is, let alone intelligence. AI can certainly perform various kinds of rote "thinking," and put together vast amounts of resources, but in my opinion, it's gonna be a while before it will outdo the human capacity for creativity.
You'd be interested in xdg-ninja: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

Like others said, fighting the clean HOME fight is just draining and futile in the end. This script helps you identify low hanging fruit, though, where you can change their storage location with a simple envvar.
lol doh aren’t black markets illegal by definition?
I've had some prior exposure and been going through DuoLingo German.

Being mostly done, I'm at a low B1 proficiency in a year.

It is quite an astounding piece of learning software, overall. They have a music module that I've tinkered with a bit, but a phone is no substitute for a piano. Haven't looked at the math stuff.
I built Obsidian Web Clipper to automate that process. It also allows you to save web pages as nicely formatted Markdown files with YAML properties even if you don't use Obsidian.

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper
Is it’s a felony, Rhode Island is required to extradite. I skimmed the article and I’m not sure if this will be a felony though.

Your point stands for international actors.
Or this

https://github.com/google/s2geometry
Are people normally extradited in civil matters? With the penalty being a fine of up to $1000 per violation, plus options for customers to sue individually, wouldn’t it work like any other civil matter?

Get a judgment in NY with or without the defendant choosing to show up, come after their assets, that kind of thing? Even if they’re Canadian, presumably they’re accepting money in dollars somewhere along the line, couldn’t a motivated attorney come after that cash flow?

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S9365
My experience is similar. The young people I know don’t seem to struggle any more or less with social media addiction than my peers. But there’s selection bias: I only get to meet young people who are very engaged in their careers or in their (non-online) interests.

Teen suicide rates have almost doubled since the iPhone came out, so I think there’s something real going on here even if it’s not visible to us.
For relevant context for anyone wondering if Sam Smiths pubs are a quaint relic of the past, they also run a handful of the cheapest (and therefore busiest) pubs in popular locations in central London. Can confirm I've sworn in more than one of them
Tor browser asks you if you want to allow fingerprinting or not when a site attempts to query your HW info. Not sure why other browsers can't do the same.
Do you have some citations?
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>Apple devices can query your AirTag's location because they sync its shared secrets through the iCloud keychain

I see. But can't Apple simply read this data from my iCloud keychain? Or is this kind of data sharing through iCloud keychain e2e encrypted?
I presume on the surface it looks nothing like in the ocean depths where it's under enormous pressure.
> Tell that to Dublin Bus. Some routes are more or less unusable due to ridiculously high numbers of stops; there’s one in particular near me which has 37 stops over about 4km.

Sounds impractical.

> There are large parts of the suburbs here where you’re never more than a couple hundred meters from a bus stop. The last mile is, for much of the city, just not a problem, though when taken to extremes it does make the routes very slow.

We have a solution to this. It’s called a taxi.
There's not a chance this will be extended to things like airline tickets and healthcare. It starts and ends at restaurant bookings...
Since we posted this, two camps of people reached out:

Classical ML people who recommended we try training a classifier, possibly on the embeddings.

Fine tuning platforms that recommended we try their platform.

The challenge there would be gathering enough data per customer to meaningfully capture their definition and standard for nit-pickiness.
Just reading the front page of the newspaper every day would do the trick. Look up every word you don't know.

Newspapers are targeted at a 6th grade level, so that's about right.

What helps is the common speaking vocabulary is about 2000 words. Not a tough goal to achieve. It'd be nice start to have a list of those words.
IMHO Temporal and its team is great - it checks all boxes on abstracting away queues, schedulers, distributed state machines for your workflows related load balancers/gateways.

After following discussions and commits Hatchet, Inngest, Windmill, I have a feeling in few years time all other systems will have 95% overlap in core features. They are all influence each other.

Much bigger question what price you will pay by introducing workflow system like Temporal in your code base.

Temporal and co are not for real-time data pubsub.

If latency is an issue or want to keep small memory footprint, better to use something else.

The max payload is 2 MB. It needs to be serializable. Event History has limitations. It's a postgres write heavy.

Bringing the entire team on the same page, and it's not trivial either. If your team has strong Golang developers like in mine. They might oppose it and state something like Temporal is unnecessary abstraction.

Writing your code is fun. Studying and reusing someone else patterns is not so much. Check https://github.com/temporalio/samples-go

For now, I decided to keep prototyping with Temporal and has it running on my personal projects till I create strong use cases and discover all edges.

The great side of effect of exploring Temporal and its competitors you will see better ways of structuring of your code. Especially with distributed state and decoupling execution.
That is kinda cutting the line a little fine I think.

How does one move from a monogamous relationship to a poly relationship except through an open relationship?
Your anecdotal experience doesn't negate the Matthew Effect.
Other important quotes: "o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence. Furthermore, early data points suggest that the upcoming ARC-AGI-2 benchmark will still pose a significant challenge to o3, potentially reducing its score to under 30% even at high compute (while a smart human would still be able to score over 95% with no training)."

So ya, working on efficiency is important, but we're still pretty far away from AGI even ignoring efficiency. We need an actual breakthrough, which I believe will not be possible by simply scaling the transformer architecture.
Learn to pronounce German sounds accurately, and then read the entire Harry Potter series out loud. By the time you're halfway through, you'll be well on your way to fluency. Many focus too much on understanding meaning, but what's crucial is also training your mouth and larynx muscles to form the sounds naturally. Understanding comes pretty much from context alone. Use a dictionary sparingly.
Best way is to use ChatGPT + Whisper + ElevenLabs and a prompt where you tell the LLM to answer in German but to tell you what mistakes you made and what you should have said instead in your own language. Instead of this lazy "immersion" method German schools use in order to avoid speaking in any other language so students never understand what went wrong.
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I don’t know a single person who likes or appreciates AI art, so I don’t think you’re in the minority
So far they don't really seem to care, however we've seen the lengths Apple is willing to go to when it comes to protecting their sweet revenue stream during their fight with Beeper. OpenHaystack has been functional for a long time, but they obtain locations from a running Mac, while this project directly accesses their API. This is also the most attention this project has received in a long time, so we'll see how that goes.

Over the past year only of my accounts has been banned by Apple, and I was using that one to request locations every 5-10 minutes 24/7 in Home Assistant, with no other usage of the account other than one registered hackintosh. I'm currently using another account that is querying data every 15-30 minutes, which has been working fine so far. You just need an account to anonymously download location reports, so if your throwaway gets banned just create a new one and things should work again. Just make sure to attach it to a real device or hackintosh at least once to "activate" the account's iCloud API.

I do just want to make it clear that I have no intentions on keeping this working "at all costs" - at least not without other people willing to help me out. The library is currently not even trying to be stealthy, and it can be easily detected using heuristics if they really wanted to.
strat is likely just get users, then offboard aws if the product works.
Most engineers are lazy and that's often a good thing
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> For example, the book "The Ethical Slut" the author literally describes raping people

Wow, I don't remember that. I'll have to re-read it.

> I also feel it inevitably hurts people when you are more excited about a new partner than them

It certainly happens.

Sometimes I think I'm doomed to be unhappy because I just want too much out of life. I can't imagine settling down, but I don't want flings or hookups without emotion, I want to feel a lot of emotion with people freely.

The first possibility is that, as the Internet keeps saying, I'm a shit person and I'm not ready to date. Most people seem to start dating around half my age so even if this is true, I just reject it. The second is that I just haven't met the person who is such a perfect match that I would sacrifice a lifetime of possibility to stay with them forever. I don't imagine that partner exists. Given that I'm going to crush on people who aren't my partner(s), I'd rather be upfront about it.

The third possibility is that I really am a sociopath and I just want the wrong things. I ask people and they say I'm not a narcissistic or a sociopath. I feel empathy, I don't try to control people.

Shrug?
Can someone explain to me why this is such a big big deal? I don't know much about AI, but I'm a software developer with a degree in computer science.
https://archive.is/2024.12.21-093402/https://www.wsj.com/tec...

I read a lot of these posts and get the impression that they are trying to make the point that AI isn’t transformational.

The current suite of generative AI models is disrupting industries. And we’ve only had a couple years to build products on top of them. Sure there are limits. And in some cases we are already hitting them. But we haven’t had much time to think about ways to accommodate these limitations from either a technical or user experience perspective. We have a couple years worth of value extraction from today’s LLMs.

Perhaps the investment into AI are banking on a timeline to the next breakthrough. But as it stands, even if we get not improvements from here on out we have only seen the start of how industries will be changed.
The government should stay out of the free market. There's nothing wrong with a market for a scarce commodity.

But I wonder why the restaurants themselves don't sell the reservations. They're leaving cash on the table!
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If the offenders don't even live in New York, or even in the US, the goal hasn't been achieved at all. This is a "we passed something to feel good about ourselves" moment.
> there are limitations re the number of blocking rules in Manifest V3

Use Firefox. uBlock Origin on Firefox also gets around CNAME cloaking to make advertiser domains appear as first party, which Chrome does not give sufficient access to do that.

It doesn't get around actually serving these endpoints mixed directly in with first party endpoints, but these are a hard sell on the advertising side too, from the technical effort from the publisher to implement it to the advertisers reluctance to trust the stats when the publisher gets to be the man in the middle.
They must have reached R’lyeh
Babbel Live costs $99/month or less if you pay for more than a month. It has classes with a native speaker as instructor and 0-5 other people. The classes focus on a specific topic in your level and are entirely in the given language.
These are regular questions in languages with (and without) reference counting, what’s so special about string views?
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Because C syntax makes pointers harder to use and understand than they really are. Also constraints around pointers, casting etc. I still clearly remember figthing the C compiler and getting back "makes integer from pointer without a cast" complilation errors and segfaults. That's the main reason why I don't want to touch C or Rust again. D felt so much easier. I could finally write a program without endlessly fighting the compiler.
So this is my side project to try and get the data off PDFs and onto … well anywhere
So that's why GM has been asking itself "Are we the baddies?" lately.
Yes yes, and good teeth is associated with better future income. I am a man, and I am 6'4", and that helped, I am sure...but you also overstate the case in a very exaggerated way. There are many factors at play, and no single one is deterministic. Else my glowering face and awkward social communication, and my impoverished upbringing, and undiagnosed ADHD, and the three children I helped raise while in college would have drug me down.
I agree that there is an effect, but disagree that it is as strong as you say it is.
Does blocking Google Tag Manager help?

The site you're talking to can still read your data, but most third party sites can be cut off. Privacy Badger will let you block Google Tag Manager, and while it warns you that some sites will break, few do.
> SIMD ISAs usually do not provide the integer division; the only known exception is RISC-V Vector Extension

It's kind of funny to read "the only known exception is..." in this context. What would an unknown exception be - an ISA that accidentally implements this but that the author believes nobody is aware of yet?

More seriously, I actually don't understand the intended meaning here. I assume the author means "out of all the ISAs I know"? What is that set of ISAs?
Single data point but I moved from the UK to the US 30 years ago and the prevalence of stuff being stolen is two orders of magnitude lower.
they should go after ticketmaster and livenation which is a far, far bigger issue except of course they lobby hard while black market reservation folk don’t. they need to unionize or something and then lobby hard too :)
> I had the wrong order of magnitude

Absolutely hilarious. Let's compare notes in twenty years. You are too vested in the cult to be able to accept and comprehend reality.
No wonder that the birthrates are in the dumpster. How are you supposed to get laid in the absence of social lubricants?
This isn't new. Most advertising companies have had some sort of "Cross device targeting" or "household targeting" solution for going on almost a decade now. It's also why the suggestion of "repeal GDPR, just use cookie blockers" is so misguided.
I’m curious about that too. My speculation is they think there aren’t enough people to fill their dining rooms who are willing to pay that much more. They could probably do something like auctioning off a certain number of last minute reservations, but then they risk looking predatory.
I have email going back more than 25 years from various software; in most cases an export dump when I stopped using, say, Pegasus Mail or Eudora. Since I started with Thunderbird I've created a new profile each year, and have profiles going back to 2008.

Earlier this year I imported all this historical data into the Mail Server on our Synology NAS. I don't use this server for current mail, but I can now search these old messages easily from within Thunderbird.

One thing I notice is how much more personal email there was before we started using chat services for group conversations. Nonetheless it's great being able to go back and read correspondence with, say, my dad who died in 2010.
A restaurant has a fixed number of reservations possible. How do you suggest allocating them when demand exceeds supply? One way or another, some will not be able to get a reservation.