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logtempoon I'm Too Old

The problem is not pleasure or meaning of life. It is production, competition and economy. Always have been in the past centuries.

> Maybe we will shift more of our skills to higher level skills

Exactly, that's what happened with the second industrial revolution: in Europe and USA, it take form as the bloom of tertiary work being the first employer. But we are facing the limits (or consequences as we prefer to call it) of such growth: limits in energy, materials, environment. We'll face the same limits for AI.

logtempoon Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing

ho it's billion, my bad ahah

logtempoon Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing

it's 2.3/second not 380

logtempoon FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' over Facebook Posts

From the article, it's a FB report to the FBI that decided to show up (on a videocall?) to ask if everything is OK.

To me, it sounds like if the guy working at Starbuck hear a guy saying harmfull things outloud, call cops, cops come to say hello, and nothing happen.

I don't see it heavily authoritarian, though I can easily imagine how it could be if it has some "bad" patterns

logtempoon Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla's Model 3

Lu told CNBC that the SU7 will first be sold to consumers in China, and that it would take at least two to three years for any overseas launch.

Xiaomi’s car factory, for which all “key” steps are fully automated, can produce an SU7 every 76 seconds.

Tesla’s Model 3 is the best-selling new energy sedan in China [...] and costs less than 500,000 yuan, according to data from industry website Autohome.

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Looks like it's just China market fight at the end, with mobile strategy to sell enough before the others in hope to have a dominant position.

I don't believe in the 76seconds assembly. But for curious people, it would mean they need only 44 days to produce the 50,000 pre ordered EV from a single production line.

Also unlikely to see US "tiktok-like" reaction since Tesla is big in China?

logtempoon My problem with current day planner apps

I think too much (self)micromanagement kill your productivity. A reasonable way to satisfy your need would be planning your day and estimated task duration, doing your day trying to keep the order of task at least and tracking it, and at the end of the day doing a post-day recap for the record.

you end up with a predicted vs reality calendar, and will allow you to eventually adjust your predictions/model based on passed realisations. With no realtime stuff that you actually don't really have the need to deal with in realtime I believe.

logtempoon When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first

In other words, they're trying to keep the variance of the distribution of salaries constant over time.

Limiting economic disparity have always been beneficial to the group I believe (I don't have data for that).

In the same company, the top should not be paid x% more than the lower salary. In the same country, the maximum wage should not exceed x% more than the minimum wage (after taxes).

logtempoon Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert

Rice production does not really increase since 2015: https://www.statista.com/statistics/256005/global-rice-suppl...

and while you're correct for the price, it did increased by ~32% in 2023 compared to previous years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/255954/price-indices-for...

logtempoon Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert

rice: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/rice-climate-crisis-f...

france: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/ministere/politique-defense/stra...

wfp: https://www.wfp.org/

amazonia:https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-upda...

logtempoon Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert

The World Food Program is ringing the bell at increasing risk of food shortage.

There is a lack of rice production due to drought and demands

France consider that food supply will be a military challenge in some years (the two other points are Russia, and islamic threat).

There is sever drought in Amazonia and the whole south america.

India stopped to export rice (or weat? I don't remember), due to aome China agression pretext.

so yes, banana price rise and the other food goods will follow.

logtempoon Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

and data

logtempoon Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it

so, my body is refactoring all the time? Cool 8)

logtempoon Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it

so, my body is refactoring all the time?

logtempoon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...

Might interest you!

logtempoon High-speed microscale 3D printing

1 million per day of what looked like 1mm3 structures (with um features) mean a volume of 1dm3, which is 1L.

Do what you want with this information, I think it's not at industrial scale yet.

logtempoon High-speed microscale 3D printing

> For their part, the researchers have already experimented with producing both hard and soft particles, made of ceramics and of hydrogels. The first could see applications in microelectronics manufacturing and the latter in drug delivery in the body. “There’s a wide array of applications, and we’re just beginning to explore them,” said Maria Dulay, senior research scientist in the DeSimone lab and co-author of the paper.

Traduction of the last sentence: either mean "we don't know the applications it can have" or it's honest and there is many applications coming soon that can't be discussed publicly for some industrial reason.

logtempoon Scilab – numerical computation for engineers and scientists

Didn't known they moved from INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) to Dassault Systèmes

logtempoon Ask HN: Success stories from McKinsey (et al.)

And that's the force and the weakness of McKinsey (and other commercials guys): they sell something, from good things to craps. They sell it no matter what is the outcome.

When they sell a good thing, everything is good. When they sell a bad thing, it can put down a whole healthcare system (in my country, consulting companies admitted that hospitals are not industries and they did more harm than good with their plans), it can let survive a bad startup where millions of public money is invested, etc.

logtempoon Self-studying databases and doubts on PhD

There is different cases regarding PhD subjects, and it vary depending on the country.

The normal two cases is doing a master, and by contacting professors you find opportunities and build with the help of the future PhD director the subject. Second case is there is an open position for a already existing subject.

In extremly rare cases, the subject is proposed by (brilliant) students to Prof.

but in all cases, you don't work alone and you stand on the shoulders of giants

logtempoon Tell HN: It is now impossible to dismiss shorts from your Youtube feed

peertube could be one, but it's hard to get traction for such plateforms. I also believe that a good amount of users are also doing there search on tiktok and instagram. For long content it's still youtube obviously.

logtempoon Why Europe is dismantling its dams

> Research now shows that at least 1.2 million instream obstacles block river flows in 36 European countries, with about 68% less than 2m (6.6ft) in height

I think we are talking about those dam, not the big ones.

> "Absolutely nobody is proposing to blow up or remove barriers which are in use," clarifies Garcia de Leaniz, "We are targeting barriers which are obsolete, which are no longer providing any services to society, that have silted up, and pose a flow hazard."

logtempoon Ask HN: In-game purchases: addiction or harmless entertainment?

spending coins, be it valuable coins or pixels coins, can be addictive. On the other hand, it can teach the children to plan, save money for later. or spending it instantly. So...it depend of the game.

Regarding spending dollars coins to buy pixels coins, it's up to you.

logtempoon Germany just legalized recreational marijuana

you're correct, but prohibition when not largly accepted socially have bad consequences.

logtempoon Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

If neural network is AI, then translation tools, deepl being one of my favorite.

There is also AI in video editing apps: fast autofocus on faces, face detection and modifiers that follow you. It's really incredible and intuiive enough so that many people use it (too much maybe).

logtempoon Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

Maybe it will put emphasis on the social aspect of internet. Maybe people will be more sceptikal. by having t know your source, having small but trustworthy network based on real people...

maybe that will change the shape of internet and lead to premium internet service where experts are paid to provide currated informations.

does not sounds too bad tbh.

logtempoon Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months

You really need to cite a source on this subject, measuring the industrial waste is very difficult and any articles state that "we found this but anyway, it's difficult to track efficiently the industry wastes".

logtempoon Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months

Adjust the variable in consequence, we're talking about a fictional material. You're using a strawman there, just to be in contradiction.

logtempoon The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)

Remind me of this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4

> Improving the efficiency of algorithms for fundamental computations can have a widespread impact, as it can affect the overall speed of a large amount of computations. Matrix multiplication is one such primitive task, occurring in many systems—from neural networks to scientific computing routines. [...] We further showcase the flexibility of AlphaTensor through different use-cases: algorithms with state-of-the-art complexity for structured matrix multiplication and improved practical efficiency by optimizing matrix multiplication for runtime on specific hardware. Our results highlight AlphaTensor’s ability to accelerate the process of algorithmic discovery on a range of problems, and to optimize for different criteria.

And I'll emphasis this sentence, as it seems to be the main goal/critics of the author in this post:

> improved practical efficiency by optimizing matrix multiplication for runtime on specific hardware.

logtempoon The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)

Is a language can be too big to fall? That's an interesting question tbh.

logtempoon The year of Linux on the desktop, and why we can't have nice things

Have been using linux since 6-8 years now. It's not perfect but it's really friendly for the major distributions (ubuntu,mint, mainly), more than when I started. Today most of the people do two things: browser and mails/chat. People who want more will chose the OS depending of the software they want to use. Or the one they're used to.