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> Shouldn't allocation strategy be decided by the caller, not type definiton?

Yes.

Swift made this mistake too. Classes are always heap allocated (and passed by reference and refcounted) and structs are always stack allocated (and passed by value).

It makes for a super awkward time trying to abstractly define a data model: you need to predict how people will be using your types, and how they’re used affects whether you should use struct or class.

The “swifty” way to do it is to just eschew class altogether and just always use struct, but with the enormous caveat that only classes can interop with ObjC. So you end up in an awkward state where if you need to send anything to an ObjC API, it has to be a class, and once you have a lot of classes, it starts to be more expensive to hold pointers to them inside structs, since it means you need to do a whole lot of incrementing/decrementing of refcounts. Because if you have a struct with 10 members that are all classes, you need to incur 10 refcount bumps to pass it to a function. Which means you may as well make that holding type a class, so that you only incur one refcount bump. But that just makes the problem worse, and you end up with code bases with all classes, even though that’s not the “swifty” way of doing things.

Rust did it right: there’s only one way to define a piece of data, and if you want it on the heap, you put it in a Box. If you want to share it, you put it in an Arc.
Understanding the Essentials of Model Distillation in AI
See also https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
No not really. There's no power in the world that can restrain this in it's current form even mildly much less absolutly. Why do you think that would be even slightly possible?
That's probably too much to be casually recommending on the internet, but this is a real therapy now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan/bupropion
Excellent podcast, slowly working my way through the back catalogue.
I would like to not give my location to the website. Let me just pick a city manually.
Absolutely. I'd never want to do stuff like this in an unfamiliar clinical setting. I'd want to do it at home where I'm safe and have my friends
This is quite concerning seeing that the authors are all affiliated with huggingface. Hopefully they won't start censoring what models you can or can't upload because they seem certain things shouldn't be developed.
Unfortunately, I suspect this is true. The British public does have an authoritarian bent, with a side helping of “rules are for other people, this couldn’t possibly impact me at some point”.
I don't have anything to add regarding the Hector v. Linus debate, who was in the wrong, who was in the right, who's to blame etc...

All I want to know is what's the long term viability of Asahi Linux or Linux for that matter on M series chip'd Macs? What's the burden going to be for Fedora Asahi if the work remains out of tree? Has Redhat/IBM stated they'll support it via the Fedora project going forward? What if they pull support?
> In Switzerland everything closes

Sure, because there are worker rights and we do not keep people working at night unless there's a reason.

> Japan is notable because there’ll be people everywhere and things will still be clean

What do you mean people will be everywhere? There are people as well in regular European towns and it's clean as well.
As someone that has basically zero background in quantum, is there some kind of "aha" thing I'm supposed to observe here?

The details for what a quantum coin flip is has the description "your friends will think you're a wizard."

Why? I certainly don't think I'm a wizard right now.
Why would I make something worse if I’m ever going to see, touch, feel, think about?
Cool story! Note to future readers: there is no satisfying conclusion to the mystery found in the article. I definitely got baited
This is actually pretty good. Would be nice if it supported arrow keys to scroll down/up on your computer
How is it not OCR?
Thanks for the feedback - we will soon allow users to input their own topics/questions - so I’m not surprised to read your preference for it at all. That being said - one of the challenges is how do you ask questions in the voice of the target persona. That’s the tricky part & why we started with the suggested questions first.
Cutting SS, Medicare, and other support services has the dubious advantage of leaving a good number of the least able members of society with less resources and less of a voice to raise.

People barely getting by that are reliant on scant support won't be raising much of a complaint that they're not actual fraudsters once that support is gone.
What do you mean by making money? That’s not a simple question to answer. At the end of the day, all of AWS runs on a bunch of VMs that are spun up with a certain AMI depending on what the workload is. I’m sure AWS is charging enough to make the price more than the compute costs except for services that are completely free like CloudFormation.

If you mean do they cost more to develop than they are currently making for income, that’s how tech companies work - high fixed costs for initial development and low marginal costs that are spread across the customers.

They have started canceling projects where the cost of continued development doesn’t make a direct or indirect profit and don’t add to the ecosystem. The two I can think of most recently are CodeCommit (a very bad hosted git repository) and Cloud9 (hosted development environment).
That take has been accurate in specific times and places, but it is also blindly repeated in contexts where it's simply not true. All the teachers I encountered in my time in the US public school system were trained in the progressive spirit expressed by Feynman, with a strong bias against rote learning and in favor of a conceptual, understand-based approach. My math education in school both encouraged and rewarded figuring things out, which was good for me because I hated memorization and was always bad at it.

Despite that, the criticism that school rewards memorization and doesn't teach critical thinking is still the only criticism I ever heard about the education I received. It's the standard thing that well-meaning people say.

Which I think is a shame. When virtually every teacher in the system is trained in the progressive approach to education, and most of them sincerely believe in it and do their best to practice it, only to have the entire society turn around and claim that they are actually implementing ideas that nobody has believed in in a century, must be incredibly discouraging.
Hmmm the few people that clean up at Japanese football games don't actually represent everyone. Many leave drinks containers behind or bento boxes that they brought with them, and often you are given bags of goodies (not actually that exciting, I got a branded folder of the team, and a salad dressing one time) which end up being 'forgotten'. Whilst yes some fans do keep it very tidy, as with many things in Japan, there is an idolised view that isn't based on reality.
At some point in the probably near future it will be much simpler to create an autonomous AI agent than a nuclear bomb.
this gives a wrong assumption that optimal distribution network is _the same_ for different frequencies

or that it, itself, isn't a consequence of its own series of sunken cost fallacies
Incredible a site supposedly full of smart people cannot piece this together.
The open banking standard isn't actually all that open.

As a customer you cannot gain access, at least easily. You need to apply for accreditation as a third party financial services provider.
"Why should the reader care?" I agree, they aren't framed in a way that engages the reader.

How about for a division problem, start with a bag of candy, or if it HAS to be healthy, a bag of cherries.

Or maybe apply it to cooking. Lets use Metric anyway, even after ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat... ) and ask questions about a recipe for some food dishes (use real ones! IDK maybe bread, pasta, some pastry stuff...) and ask things like the total expected volume based on the ingredients. How much X there should be if naively adjusted by exactly a factor of 1/2 or 3x etc. Things people might do if a thing was intended for a family of 4 rather than 2, or a group of guests at a holiday.
Not sure why you are downvoted. Japanese schools do a good job of promoting prosocial behaviour.

A relatively low income inequality may also be a big factor. Also, much less societal tolerance for drugs?
I don't recomend doing it at an afterparty spilling half the bag on the floor and spending most of the night worrying if your "benefactor" will kill you.
Culture and mentality. They don't have the same urge to vandalize or graffiti. Same as Singapore.

They are much more united and much less diverse in various ways. While they have many subcultures, they mostly adhere to a greater social cohesion.

To make up for that a bit, they do allow people to get plastered and spray vomitus publicly, including public transit and no one bats an eye. That said, you don't get the public defecation that we get.

Even their bums tend to take care of themselves as best they can. They try to maintain a certain decorum despite their dire circumstances.

Americans, in a sense, lost quite a bit of their sense of shame.
That would be a webgpu bug or an AMD bug, not a bug in this software.
I'm glad you stated that. It certainly wasn't my takeaway of the way they handled it, however. By my reading it seems like the local officials begged them to turn off the lines when they saw what was coming. And, that the executives at the utility didn't take action and then denied that this meeting occurred seems damning to the people who lost everything.
So the same people who are trying to fire the federal workforce is complaining about firing people (for cause no less)?
Pretty good! Could definitely use more thunder and subway surfers overlays, though.
Strong vs weak sense of obligation to the collective (the people around you).
Having travelled quite a bit in europe, I disagree. There are european towns with train stations that look similar clean. But not at all everywhere.

Eastern europe in general less. Norther europe more.

Western and southern europe is mixed. Graffiti I have seen quite a bit, but broken glass or other types of vandalism are sadly common, too.
Trump Appoints Himself Kennedy Center Chair
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-appoints-himself-kennedy-...
A few public ones off the top of my head: Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Ed Catmull (Pixar) are both folks who I consider to be strongly opinionated and effective leaders but who don't come across as jerks.

I'm not sure how "this code is not up to standards, try again" is ambiguous? That seems pretty direct to me.

Ultimately it's about showing empathy. Especially when you're dealing with employees who are struggling with anxiety, impostor syndrome, or burnout - all of which seem to be overrepresented in tech.
Japan is definitely high trust and has a lot of advantages downstream of that. Though I think lots of that list is more of a "vibrant Japanese city" vibe (go up to some dying onsen town and you'll see plenty of broken shit and TVs dropped on the side of the road).

Cleanliness is... mostly downstream of storefronts and the like picking shit up _all the time_. There are pockets of land that don't end up people's direct responsibility and end up getting very dirty very quickly. Little micro-pockets of trash that pile up (very quickly!). But lots of places you tend to have someone going around and just picking something up.

For like a year there was a guy consistently eating his cup noodles or lunch box near my building, and he would just drop it near the bike parking. But we had somebody come by the building twice a week to deal with trash and the like and he was picking it up (I'd throw it into a garbage bag if I saw it and had one in my hand). Still though, like if I'd go on a midnight walk I'd see it.

Turns out that the way super crowded places can be clean is by cleaning constantly (see also restrooms, which need to be constantly cleaned). "Nothing is broken" also definitely feels downstream of people fixing stuff promptly. Low latency when trying to deal with issues might be key.

And an aside for the public transit... while the transit feels clean, ask most any woman living in Tokyo how they feel about riding public transit. Many might still grade it above other ones but I have heard many nasty experiences that white guys just don't get exposed to at all. Groping, verbal harassment, the works.

EDIT: I mention lots of this to get to a bigger point: good things are possible! There is no magic entirely localized in the Japanese Isles.
The problem is, that he let's a maintainer say he is going to fight any Rust code getting into any "core" (whatever he considers core) part of the kernel, even if it's just a wrapper to make driver code more maintainable. I would say, that's a strategy decision that should not be up to any subsystem maintainer, that's a decision that should be up to Linus, by not intervening he essentially endorses that getting rust into the kernel requires consensus from all subsystem maintainers. I don't believe that was what the rust guys thought they'd be signing up for.
Haha it’s funny that this stuff is still going on. The difficulty of getting things into mainline is why Con Kolivas stopped developing his interactivity-prioritizing schedulers for Linux some 20 years ago. It’s just how the project works.
Also it's, y'know, written in C.

I used to know C. It was my first language, and I spent a fair bit of time in it, but that was before compilers started to treat undefined behaviour as an excuse to break reality.

Arguably I'm not smart enough, or disciplined enough, to write C. This may be the case, and therefore I have naturally focused on other languages. Rust, to no-one's surprise, is my current favorite. I've never contributed to the kernel — for more reasons than just the language — but the language would be reason enough on its own.

C programmers are getting rare...
> They are at the very least tracking the users and using that tracking as part of the heuristics they use in their product.

They can do that without seeing the proxied contents. So your analogy to asking facebook or google to stop ads and tracking is completely broken.

> and now further that “dropping the extra feature of caching” would not adversely affect their technology or their business”

Yes. (Well, it was stated much earlier but I guess you didn't notice until now?) You're the one saying it would be a problem, do you have anything to back that up?

> in the latter case obviously false if you know anything about how it works.

Caching costs a bunch of resources and still uses lots of bandwidth, what's so obvious about it? And cloudflare users can already cache-bust at will, so it's not exactly something they're worried about.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/cache-rules/s...

> would not help at all with a “legitimate ddos” such as being on the front page here

Which is not the scenario people were worrying about.

And an average web server can handle that.
It never came out. Its page on their website can be tracked through time with the publication date slipping repeatedly. The canceled 7th edition’s author went on to update CSS: The Definitive Guide alongside Eric Meyer.

I’m partway through writing a proposal to O’Reilly to do an updated edition. :-)
Or, the famous AoPS Proofs Without Words:
https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Proofs_withou...
This is why American student math performance on PISA is excellent: https://i0.wp.com/www.edwardconard.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
When I interview for C# candidates, I have a series of questions that I like to ask 1) what are `Func<T>` and `Action<T>` 2) write a function that takes a `Func<T>` or an `Action<T>` (any function; can be trivial), 3) write a function that returns one of `Func<T>` or `Action<T>`.

The reason is that over various interviews, I've noticed that candidates that can answer and write the code are going to be able to read, understand, and write the level/type of code that I expect.

I bring this up because I think when teams use projects for assessments, there are clearly certain things that you look for or you would see and be able to tell that this candidate knows what they are doing.

Rather than doing all the extra work, to me it seems like you can short circuit that process by just directly focusing on the 4-5 things that -- if you saw them while reviewing the code -- would tick the right boxes. My point here isn't necessarily `WaitGroup`, but that maybe there are some topics that the process could be reduced down to that would yield the same learnings.
Given the severity of long Covid in many cases, I doubt that’s a more than a negligible factor.
I get this impression that the Rust people think they are a stage where Rust is a viral phenom but it's really not. Nevertheless, they are behaving like its viral and trying to force it down everybody's throats, even though I never heard of some software package or system that was built natively in rust that truly went viral. The other day I tried to install a python package and - big surprise - it REQUIRED me to install a rust toolchain to install the python package! Well, that package went straight into the dumpster (i'm on WSL which DOES NOT have a rust toolchain)!

This "we're viral" behavior when "it's really not" is very childish.
Six of the London tube lines have all night service on Friday and Saturday nights, so if you fall asleep on these, you won't be stuck.

https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-do...

My route home is via commuter rail so I don't have that luxury. I wouldn't possible know what it is like to wake up after a few beers and find myself on the last train of the night, four stations past my stop, but rumour has it that the night bus network is pretty good at getting me^H^Hpeople home, even if the wait can be cold, so long as you've not actually left London. Or Uber.

https://sucs.org/~cmckenna/maps/busspider/2012-14/west-londo...

But if you don't wake up til the end of the line, it's probably pretty much like in Japan, except less clean.
Grant Sanderson's YouTube channel 3blue1brown and his Manim package have made it significantly easier to visualize math computationally: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
https://3b1b.github.io/manim/index.html

There's also a well supported community version as well:
https://www.manim.community/
You know what would happen right?

Copywrite expiring in 20 years doesn't mean access is democratized. Publishers would likely keep the price the same, but instead is the author getting a cut, they just take everything.

Besides. The public isn't owed the fruits of my labor for free.
In the incredible case that we develop fully autonomous agents capable of crippling the world, that would mean we developed fully autonomous agents capable of keeping it safe.

Unless the first one is so advanced no other can challenge it, that is.
I tried adding my city's main bike path that goes around the whole city and it seems to only register it as one point instead of a bunch of access points unless I go look up every entrance and manually add it.
Yes, it’s not fully tidy but I think comparing a top tier derby in either nation is nonetheless instructive.
Tangentially related: I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that the PCM sampling frequency for CD Audio was decided between Sony and Phillips by way of a surf contest. Their respective frequencies of choice were such that they could fit some arbitrarily-long piece of classical music onto a single disc so they decided to battle it out on the waves (the conference where they were hashing this out was in Hawaii). Phillips supposedly won so we got 44.1 kHz.

I just did a cursory web search to find this anecdote and was unsuccessful. Did I make this up whole cloth or is it just buried someplace? Or was I bamboozled at a young age by some random forumite on a now-defunct site?

*EDIT: This comprehensive account [1] seems to confirm that the story is completely apocryphal.

[1] https://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/The-six-meetings-Philips-S...
As much as this interests me, it's a little too vague to upvote even if it were on an explicitly-political forum. But I'll comment because I'm a sucker that way.

> Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service

Modern parallels to that [0] have definitely been on my mind recently. To recycle a comment from 10 days ago:

> > [§4] Officials whose previous political activities do not guarantee that they will always be fully committed to the national state may be dismissed from service.

> > [§7] Dismissal from office [...] shall be pronounced by the highest Reich or state authority, which shall make the final decision without recourse to the courts.

> And that's how the freshly-arrived executive guy started unilaterally firing people he felt were insufficiently servile to his agenda, ignoring prior checks-and-balances and without appeal.
The problem with Uber is that it's a lose-lose-lose money pit scenario.

Customers pay significantly more, drivers make significantly less, and Uber is still running hundreds of millions in the red. Turns out hiring thousands of devs and dumping absurd capital into... driving people around... doesn't really work.
One of the things I love about Gleam and all of the love they are giving to their LSP is that it’s providing a great example of how far you can get without any LLMs. With a strongly typed language you can get very far just using the types and a clear intent.

That’s not to say that LLM assistants aren’t useful, I bet combining these code actions with a LLM to fill the todo would work wel, but that I’m glad to see that people aren’t throwing out existing techniques for consistent code generation.
Way more of a hive mind mentality and indoctrination. Expression individualism and going your own way is actively discouraged.
You know the wierd thing is - I've never used Meta AI. I've never thought of using it. The only product of FB i use is whatsapp, however I've not seen/heard any of my friends using Meta AI for FB,IG,Whatsapp. I really don't understand what their ROI here is...
What made TikTok (and reels) effective was that it also added personalized discovery.

Most other social media services focused on showing stuff you that were either already subscribed to or were very similar to it. At some point, you would exhaust your feed. You more or less saw everything.

Of course, short videos are easier to scroll through than long YouTube videos but even to this day, the content of my YouTube feed has basically not changed in years.
Ext4backup, a tool that tries to preserve as much information as possible
None of the things you list are former public utilities of any kind, much less the specific kind under discussion (California public utility districts providing electricity and similar services.) PacifiCorp is a private utility company like PGE, formed from the merger of other (then- troubled), also private, utilities in 1910, and the other things aren't even utilities.

Are there any germane examples of your “These formerly ‘public utilities’ are now often owned by PE or Berkshire Hathaway” claim or is it just a complete non-sequitur?
Ah, yeah, a note that it remains unsolved might help with reader expectations. I didn't find that it affected my experience that much, but I can understand why it would.
I agree that removing bad laws is good. I think by introducing the second, culturally charged topic (1.) taxi cartels, 2.) recreational drugs) you diminish the possible interpretations of your perspective.

The other downstream conclusions make sense too, but the linkage is more opaque making it difficult to appreciate.

Also hard to acknowledge is--who decides which laws are "bad"? Generally, societal outcomes should test the efficacy (toward some comparably abstract societal good) of laws, which then prompts the legislature to do something between patting themselves on the back and authoring actually effective law.