More than five million probable died from Covid, the vast majority since summer 2020. The pandemic isn’t over because someone decided it was. This person’s comment is asinine.
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that generally things improving is an affront to people who lived before improvement. To me it sounds like saying we shouldn’t have indoor plumbing because it’s unfair to people who lived without it before it was invented, or don’t have it now.
I was in an interview not long after format strings in Python came out (for example, print(f”Hello, {name}”) rather than print(“Hello, %s”, name)) and the interviewer thought I was confusing languages and features, asserted this fact strongly, and was pretty surprised when it worked, but I think overall I lost points because the interviewer lost face.
I travel a lot for work and after some setup I have found hertz to be the most efficient. When they’re not efficient, I want to blow a gasket at the line and lack of any urgency from the staff, and another time they canceled my reservation day of without telling me (because they were overbooked) leaving me stranded in an unfamiliar city.
But when it works it does work well. I have the board down to a science: shuttle to hertz, look for my name on board, walk to car directly as indicated by board, drive away with the only human interaction being the person scanning the car as I exit.
To be completely fair, the printer comment seemed to be tongue in cheek. I’m sure if this really were a blocker, they would have easily solved it with a quick trip to FedEx office, as mentioned.
Yes, Tesla owner here. When you buy you’re given the option to purchase “FSD” for $10k. All the caveats reveal that it’s not really FSD though, of course, and you’re essentially paying for these partial FSD features and are a part of the testing (like opting into iOS beta, for example).
You can go through the order flow on Teslas site and see this quickly.
The Tesla influencers — the explicit and implicit ones — have really soured me on the brand. I have driven in the original Tesla, loved the model S, owned a model Z, and had a cybertruck on order for a while (and intended to follow through with the purchase). I am a big Tesla fan, but the constant stream from the influencers rings like the “no matter what, this event is good for crypto” people. No matter what, Tesla acolytes jump in and only show the good things and rail against anything bad. I have cancelled my cybertruck order partially because of this behavior, Elons behavior, and in no small part because I saw a Rivian on the road the other day!
No it’s people stealing accounts and running the images through off the shelf deep fake software to pump whatever the cryptocurrency or NFT flavor of the month nonsense is.
Most of Texas is very remote and hard to attract talent or investment to. Certainly cheaper to put the plant in Uvalde or something, but harder to recruit hard tech talent there.
I realize this is a mental model thing, which makes it more of a heuristic, and I believe this one is correct. However, I finally had a situation recently where it _was_ the compiler! I submitted a bug report and a patch and now it’s no longer a compiler error!
I’d love my Remarkable or Oasis to be in color. I’ve used my Remarkable almost daily since I’ve received it and Oasis several times a week for years. Color on either or both would be great.
Even in color, eink devices have largely never been portrayed as an ipad replacement given their largely different use cases. It’s sounding to me like you don’t like your devices in favor of either an ipad or paper book, and while that’s okay, it doesn’t mean there’s no market for a color device.
The thread really jumped the shark when the author shared a “glimpse of the future” and cited an example of some organization that doesn’t appear to exist, and some project the author made. This idea is so bad for so many reasons that others in the thread have already outlined.
This is really interesting, I’d love to read more. One thing that’s interesting to me is that when I search HN for Katerra, I see plenty of articles posted that verify the OP story, but none of them have any comments. I guess it’s not really a tech company so even with huge valuations and bailouts it didn’t really attract interest in discussion at HN.
My company is similar. One of the fastest companies to “Unicorn” status ever with rounds led by top firms, but garners nearly zero discussion on HN.
Wow I think you’re right upon reread. I read it as having to account for all that time over the previous period to show how they couldn’t have done a better job/
I will never not upvote stories on Feynman. I’ve read all the books and he was an extraordinary man who brought an ability to describe complicated topics at a layman’s level. It’s true that he didn’t have some of the super core contributions to scientists that some of his peers did, but the levity and abilities he brought to the field were extraordinary. Truly an amazing figure.
I thought the weird thing was that with that second step, if I drew a broom exactly for example, and it guessed “broom” correctly, it returns images with no brooms in them at all?
Doesn’t work when I try to use it, always returns the same thing, and it seems like everyone else is having the same problem. Sounds cool though and I’ll be excited about the day we progress enough where something like this works! GANs are very cool.
So, I’m kind of dumb and this article helped me in a tangible way. When I work with jupyter notebooks on an ec2 (where I already have ssh access), I go into terraform or the console and add my personal ip to allowed ips in the security group, and then access the notebook via EC2_PUBLIC_IP:JUPYTER_PORT in my browser. This is annoying in particular, in addition to needing to add an IP, in that when I move from the office to home or vice versa there’s always a brain fart where I cannot access because I’m on a new ip.
After reading this article I started a port forwarding session and can access the remote notebook without issue. All it took was the ssh port forwarding. Amazing.
Is Monte Carlo approach (versus a gradient based approach) basically trying a bunch of different things until something works, or is it more nuanced than that (perhaps with intelligent optimization of what to try next?)?
Law enforcement or fastmail admins reading my personal email isn’t something I want, but isn’t so distasteful as for it to really be in my threat model such that I’m willing to go the lengths required to get an email provider that doesn’t have this ability, such as proton mail. I care about security and privacy and recommend fastmail, but I could see someone whose end all be all criterion of interest being privacy not wanting to use fastmail. But, this isn’t 99.999% of the population.
Long time Fastmail and 1Pass user here. While I agree that it would be best to not be locked in to particular providers, these are two of the providers who have a lot of my trust and to whom I’m paid up years in advance (at least in Fastmails case). Very excited to use this feature.