ahmedfromtunis

No entry on the Great War? Really?!!!

Just kidding, of course. This is incredible and surprisingly nostalgic. Reading some of the entries took me right back to being a kid huddled in my room for hours pouring over an encyclopedia or even the dictionary.

And I still vividly remember the rush of installing Encarta for the first time on the family PC.

I couldn't believe that I, a mere kid, have now access to iconic historical footage and that I can watch anytime I felt like it. I can't describe how amazingly cool that felt at the time! It still gives me a hit of endorphins when I remember it today.

When Cook took over, people expected him to fail.

I don't think even Steve Jobs would've been able to imagine that Apple can get this big.

I think it's time for some sort of a safety standard for a sound frequency to be reserved exclusively for alarm/alert use and that ANC systems have to let through.

It goes without saying, use of said frequency should be prohibited for other purposes, especially marketing.

Thanks for your report. It's back now to business as usual.

To answer your questions, I use Google's own DNS at home with full control over the stack.

För a minute I wasn't able to access Google at all while the rest of the internet was fine.

I use qwerty and azerty, and in both I never felt typing the sequence was any harder than typing any other regular word. Generally speaking, I prefer sequential "shortcuts" then multikey bindings.

The vim version is much easier, if you ask me: 3 strokes, 2 keys and 0 combinations.

The one you suggest however requires 4 strokes (ctrl then o then shift then s), 4 keys (ctrl, o, shift, s) and 2 combinations.

The "cc" sequence deletes the line and switches automatically to insert mode. To forgo the switch, the sequence then becomes "dd".

Using the terminal becomes much more cozy and comfortable after I activate vim-mode.

A mistake 3 words earlier? No problem: <esc>3bcw and I'm good to go.

Want to delete the whole thing? Even easier: <esc>cc

I can even use <esc>v to open the command inside a fully-fledged (neo)vim instance for more complex rework.

If you use (neo)vim already, this is the best way to go as there are no new shortcuts to learn and memorize.

Poor TSMC (and ASML)! They were already struggling with capacity to fulfill orders from their established customers. With ARM now joining the party, I don't know how they're going to cope.

Edit: The new CPU will be built with the soon-to-be-former leading edge process of 3nm lithography.

I liked digg v2 (I guess), when it relaunched as a sort of curator of interesting articles (and videos). For years it was my go-to place when bored and wanted something interesting to read.

I guess that in an ocean of upvote-based platforms, an island of hand-picked content was a welcome change -- at least for me.

The move (back) to a reddit-like site never made sense to me. Hopefully what comes next has real value to the users.

As a (former) reporter, site monitoring is a big part of what I do on a daily basis and I used many, many such services.

I can attest that, at least from the landing page, this seems to be a very good execution of the concept, especially the text-based diffing to easily spot what changed and, most importantly, how.

The biggest hurdle for such apps however are 'js-based browser-rendered sites' or whatever they're called nowadays. How does Site Spy handle such abominations?

Funnily enough, I had to pass a captcha before gaining access to the destination page. No LLMs will be visiting that page.

> You might not even be their target, and yet you will be pillaged.

Isn't this how Rome was sacked way back when it was just a city among many others in the Italian peninsula? If I recall correctly, this was a wake-up call for the city to start working on protecting itself adequately.

Sometimes I wish some kind of weird disaster would strike that somehow only erases the protocols and styling/markup languages invented in the last 60 years -- without losing any data -- to force us to start over, but with the benefit of hindsight.

Oh, and JavaScript.

This reminded of a CK Lewis bit about how modern humans deploy a lot of resources trying to save "weak" babies, and thus undoing evolution's natural selection process.

I don't use TikTok but spend some time on Instagram. Despite the format, I enjoy a lot of intellectually stimulating content (and, sometimes, conversations) on the platform.

Sometimes a friend would show me their feed and I'd be shocked at how different the content they are presented by their version of the algorithm.

There are a lot of people putting a lot of effort to create very interesting content and we should not belittle their work just to fein intellectual superiority.

There's really nothing inherently wrong about the format.

Even the concerted effort of a competent administration wouldn't be enough to cancel a system that's a century in the making.

Keyword: competent.

I get it. But what I'm saying is that the impact of a single misguided administration, while can be very devastating, is not enough to write off american super power status in research.

With appropriate planning and funding, the next administration can definitely reverse the trend.

I recently read "Chip War" and it talked about an era (around the 80s and 90s) were american dominance on electronics (and economy) seemed in deep decline.

Japan was the next big thing.

But the collective efforts of some government agencies, academia and the private sector helped reverse the trend.

American dominance is sure not a given but with an almost century of inertia, all hope is not lost (especially compared to the alternative).

The problem is that not all governments constrain themselves to only use requests and/or allow companies to challenge said requests. And that's at least what you get dealing with Apple and the USA (most of the time).

That's exactly the kind of situation I had in mind when I wrote that.

Goodstein’s theory would take more symbols than there are atoms in the observable universe to write down in "classic" maths. To "fix" this, mathematicians had to use a "new" way of thinking about infinity known as transfinite induction.

I think if we're smart enough to detect(?) a proof, we'll find a way to express it in a finite manner.

This is a fairly new question; from the early 20th century, iirc.

There were many questions with no answers for literal centuries and thousands trying, and failing, to crack them. A solution was ultimately found despite that.

A new "math" might be needed, but an answer (affirming or not) will be found.

Apparently there are multiple studies that show a link between listening to heavy metal and being 'happier' and/or 'less angry':

  - What Makes Metalheads Happy? A Phenomenological Analysis of Flow Experiences in Metal Musicians [0]
  - Extreme metal music and anger processing [1]
  - The effects of heavy metal music on arousal and anger [2]

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321893408_What_Make...

[1]: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...

[2]: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-05014-002

I suspect that coming up with a set of rules as to who would and wouldn't be honored in such a manner would inevitably lead to some real-world violence at some point in the future.

Let's leave this out of our commonly used code.

That's a valid point but I'd argue the new test would be then interesting to couple with the original one, not to replace it.

Do you think it would be reasonable to include both in future reviews, at least for the sake of back-compatibility (and comparability)?

Yeah. The new challenge seems easier to solve since it basically is hand-holding the LLMs into what the result should look like.

I think a more challenging, well, challenge, would be to offer an even more absurd scenario and see how the model handles it.

Example: generate an svg of a pelican and a mongoose eating popcorn inside a pyramid-shaped vehicle flying around Jupiter. Result: https://imgur.com/a/TBGYChc

I don't think it would be a good idea to publish it on a prime source of training data.

I only delete spam and such useless emails. Other than that, I just mark email as either read or unread. I never archived an email.

I also maintain an always zero inbox and everything is neatly classified thanks to the power of automation.

Where do you run a trillion-param model?

When I was trying to learn to code as a kid, I struggled for days trying to wrap my head around the concept of a variable.

I the concluded that programming isn't for me and left the bloodshed ide untouched.

Two weeks later, I was watching TV. And out of nowhere it just hit me. I finally understood what variables are! I ran to the computer to test my assumption, and it was spot on.

To this day, 20+ years later, I still remember the feeling of everything suddenly falling into place!

How cool is it that, as a species, we developed tools to allow us to continue watching an interstellar object zapping the void on the other side of the sun!!!

Seeing how everything is going, though, I strongly feel like we peaked as a species and that, while we'll continue up for a (short) while, the downgrade is just inevitable.