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by joconde 5y ago
> an organization that is more powerful than the majority of the world's countries. Zuckerberg controls the platform that is the primary means of communication for hundreds of millions of people, and in terms of power he's almo
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> 1. "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra Not sure what he meant by that, it doesn't really make sense to me: thinking y
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> My Mini has weird bugs all the time. e.g. Green Screen Crashes when I have a thumbdrive plugged in. Won't wake from sleep. Loses bluetooth randomly. Either the Mini is much buggier than the MacBook Air by design, or you need to ge
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With AES widely available in free code, adding export controls today wouldn't seem to do much damage to symmetric crypto at least. Maybe post-quantum schemes could be affected, but it's only a question of time until people agree o
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On the contrary, our major nuclear R&D company messed up an extension of the Flamanville nuclear plant multiple times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
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> Furthermore, Resnet-50 is back to sota because of up-to-date training protocols, and every paper that claimed superiority was using outdated training techniques (or even none at all) for the baseline. That's interesting, do you ha
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When I think I “can’t stand people” (which happened a lot to me from my teens to adulthood), it’s always because I’m in a bad place mentally, which can be identified and solved, or because I’m hanging out with the wrong people, which is eas
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That's my attempt to characterize it fairly, since I'm not a cryptographer and don't know how solid it is. Last I checked there were debates about that.
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Yes definitely. There are a lot of nuances in privacy. As an example, take the approach to ML and assistants, where Google collects most of everything to train models on their servers, while Apple tries to anonymize things a bit (e.g. their
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> It seems to me that “happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia” is logically consistent with your proposed rewrite, “people who are depressed early in adulthood have higher chance of dementia” Saying "the moon is w
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> machine learning? >> Not sure why you assumed this. ML isn't the only "innovative statistical method". I haven't read the paper though. I have to assume things since I don't seem to have access to the act
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> The researchers used innovative statistical methods to predict average trajectories of depressive symptoms for approximately 15,000 participants ages 20 to 89, divided into three life stages: older, midlife and young adulthood. They th
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> typing can inhibit certain kinds of bad code and guide people toward better solutions I argue that somebody who would try something like your example above is either lazy or trying to wreak havoc. In my experience, people like that won
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> extensions might need to [...] not depend on reaching into internals they shouldn't touch Is that the problem? I thought I read somewhere that the C/C++ extension API would have to be broken to allow for removing the GIL, for
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>> We made a wrong turn a very long time ago > What, inventing agriculture? Certainly some think that. Are there really people who believe that? I've only read it in Sapiens by YN Harari, and it sounded like a ridiculous idea
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I'd be happy to make the decision myself. I wouldn't be happy if I learned on HN that I have N years to re-write X% of our production code before our language stops being supported.
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by joconde 5y ago
Well, I don't know what Microsoft is going to add to their future updates, all I know is that they felt it was important enough to go out of their way and tell me they didn't guarantee I would always get updates. I don't want
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by joconde 5y ago
Yeah but the technical solution won't save you; laziness usually applies to everything, so they'll find something else to mess up. The technical solution is a very useful way of preventing mistakes by well-intentioned people thoug
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by joconde 5y ago
Neither of these problems have happened to me since pip introduced their new dependency resolver (I think sometime during 2020). All dependencies are installed, and packages in the default repo usually have consistent dependency lists. It&#
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by joconde 5y ago
There is no way I'm doing anything serious in a language that decides to make us rewrite part of our work regularly. We have actual work to do... I think you underestimate how important stability is.
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If a person like that is able to harm the team, I'd argue that it's a management problem. Lazy coding is only an issue when you allow people to be lazy...
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We started a project using typing annotations for everything, and it's really a pleasure to use. It's like the type safety of C++ without the insane language complexity; the "advanced" parts of the language usually make
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by joconde 5y ago
> Hypothetically, what happens in a drought, when there is no water for anyone? Have your rights been violated? If the government had a reasonable way of preventing that and didn't, I'd say yes. Otherwise, no. > If so, by wh
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by joconde 5y ago
The people who make Slashdot a cesspool probably pushed the reasonable ones out, and the refuge for these is HN. The same could probably happen here at some point, but people who want a civil forum could simply move elsewhere if that happen
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They did say that these older CPUs weren't entitled to Windows updates though ( https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/28/22646035/microsoft-window... ). This is probably worse than being denied the upgrade
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Which language do you mean? Python 1.0 seems to have come out in 1994 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1 ).
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The MBA's sleep mode is very inexpensive in battery life compared to the advantages. Maybe you don't open your laptop 50 times in a day, but I do, and it's very practical to be able to just pop into a meeting, take the laptop
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I like that they clearly admitted to it, so I know what I'm buying. Other products usually pretend to support anything and let me discover the issues after purchase (like an XPS 15 with a GPU that couldn't actually run games the G
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> at the least you want to go to a place where there are more “top advisors” aka a better institution Yes, I forgot that I had a European point of view. Here we don't usually apply to graduate schools, we apply to specific positions
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8th generation :) I started their "PC health app" today and got told my Core i7 7700HQ is too old.

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