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Daft Punk is one of my favorite artists ever but I am not familiar with all their discography(my shame and I mean to remedy that). But this was such a cool read from an obvious bigger fan than me. Half way through was only when I realized the significance of a BPM of 123.45, I didn't read it out without the decimal until then lol. And so many more fans in the comments, wow.

Nice, anoter James Somers blog post/project, I like. Love your articles, dude. And have a bunch on my reading list to catch up on.

Though the most popular anime by far around the world is shonen. Which caters to the typical male teen/pre-teen audience, but also adults and is typically characterized by action, typical underdog protagonist stereotypes of a loner, outcast, who develops a tight knit support group or team on their quest to overtake or defeat a great evil in the world.

E.g. One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Attack on Titan, etc.

Startups are competition. You're fighting with others to put up the best product in market. It's a race against time as well.

Adversarial learning. Machines are inherently better at it than humans, which is one more reason to worry about AI.

Related article: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/hiroo-onoda-im...

There was another post a while ago, that showed how all the money in Tech was gathering people from all other professions like Finance, Law, etc. And that's how tech workforces ballooned in the last decade, and exploded during the pandemic. Now a lot of that is being dialed down, with cost controls.

But, it's a result of where the money lies. And has been done in industries and periods past. Tech realized that every company needs to be honing their product strategy, it's not cool that your tech is awesome, but you need sell it. I think this group structure is more useful than the legacy agile/ with a scrum master model. PMs can steer the ship and handle all the roles of a business analyst, scrum master, and to some degree maybe even merge with an engineering manager (might be going towards that), but perhaps it was a good idea to separate engineering and product/business decisions.

A decade of government spending on critical infrastructure at low interest rates was missed.

Edit: Want to add also, the rich got richer as monetary policy flowed into capital markets, while inflation increased hurting the poor the most in the last couple years.

I understand US carriers and ISPs are the most guilty parties that are selling data to third parties. Maybe not intentionally, but we have seen in the past when third parties get access to user information hoarded by Big Tech for e.g. Cambridge Analytica.

Even the data that is collected by Facebook + Google, are mostly non consensual and we don't know what they do with it. Or it's like the classic gun to your head, to use our "free" services aka, if you don't pay for it, you are the customer.

direct link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/arent-any-typos-essay-we-laun...

When it comes to adtech, I don't immediately think of Big Tech, but they are in fact the largest aggregators of data which feeds into the system. I always wondered why there isn't enough government pushback or regulation to limit this. I guess this post is maybe part of the reason.

I think in the public sphere, many don't think of Big Tech as privacy intruders, even with Facebook's public failures, many continue to use their services. I'm not sure if most people care or don't care. But when Apple took the initiative to limit 3rd party cookies by asking it's users directly whether they wanted to allow it or not, the majority chose not to allow it. Which shows people don't want their data to be tracked.

On a related note, I don't think I've ever clicked on a banner ad on a site, or any twitter/youtube ad, etc. There's certainly an element of marketing that's brand awareness. But all the other metrics about click rates, and purchase intent, etc- I have no idea how this all adds up to the massive numbers that Big tech pulls in from ads on the Internet.

Reminds of reading what Reid hoffman said... https://twitter.com/reidhoffman/status/847142924240379904?la...

I remember when I first paid $99 for my dev account for the app store back in 2009. No inflation on the fee at least :)

Seeing the interview with Chris Lattner on Lex Fridman podcast on developing Mojo, and how he's learnt from developing Swift, or LLVM is very interesting, and how the path they've taken with Mojo is different from Python. It also seems like a lot of languages especially the new ones are converging with the best features from past languages which also makes sense.

This is super ambitious, but a great project to work on to better your understanding. And I applaud you, especially as an undergrad student( I assume as you stated final exams in the post). I wish I'd done more projects like this back when I was starting out. You are way ahead of where I was lol, I barely did any projects outside classes. And you got some attention on HN. Good stuff!

This seems like a political action, not a legal(in courts) one. Also, one man is responsible for an awful lot of stuff there.

Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology

(From a comment) Tesla Hardware v3 (2019) is needed to run FSDb, though Hardware v2.5 (2017) can run a limited feature set.

The 2014 Model S involved in this crash can’t use FSDb and actually uses the Mobileye EyeQ3 system (Hardware v1) before Tesla designed their own.

This is beautiful on his site - https://www.calbreed.com/prince-ruperts-drop/ The Beauty in Tension

…that glass bubble

That finds philosphers such trouble

Whose least part crackd, the whole does fly

And wits are crack’d, to find out why.

                           Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1663 (on the mystery of the Prince Rupert’s Drop)

The name alone, but even the description sounds like a special item in an RPG.

These droplets are characterized internally by very high residual stresses, which give rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer or a bullet on the bulbous end without breaking, while exhibiting explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged.

Had one octopus post yesterday- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091954 It's raining Octopuses on HN.

I guess the evolutionary advantages don't exist as their prey are usually small and a single octopus wouldn't have trouble hunting by themselves.

And outside of teaming up to thwart predators, but I don't think that would help against sharks unless they have a much higher intelligence and can outsmart them like how humans have evolved to do. So not really clear to me why they are living nearby, aside from abundant food and no pressure to explore new areas. So it comes back to maybe they are social. Next thing you know, they'll playing underwater pickleball with each other.

I'm wondering if Octopuses are more social creatures than we thought before. In My Octopus Teacher, the octopus seemed really friendly and social with the human.

But I also read that they don't get along with other octopuses most of the time. And in this article too they fight over territory. But Humans do that too, and we're social.

If forming social relations are evolutionary advantages, then I wonder would perhaps Octopuses start developing more social tendencies as a means of adapting to these new environmental changes. As noted in the article, the areas contained surplus food. Which is also interesting, but maybe this is just a local phenomenon, because there were many headlines in recent years about overfishing.

The first time I've read about their mating practices. So interesting.

Typically, octopuses mate when the male shoots a package of sperm called a spermatophore at the female through the water. The barbed package burrows into her skin and releases the sperm. No touching is required.

Wired article talking with Provos - https://www.wired.com/story/bcrypt-password-hashing-25-years...

HN thread on this -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104547

The original post here- https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/bcrypt-25-re...

My Octopus Teacher is a marvelous documentary on Netflix, observing these curious animals, and their intelligence.

The proposal has changed the name to QUERY, just yesterday.

previously it was titled SEARCH. I like query better personally, as it kind of aligns with SQL like requests.

Here's a great post on it- https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http-search-method/ and earlier HN thread- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095032

Yes it will be likely needing a 99.99%+ accuracy. I just made a vague suggestion, as I didn't have time to look it up. Elon mentioned it too, it doesn't just need to better than a human, but massively better. I don't know the exact accident stats for human drivers. But self-driving cars will need to be much higher.

if we're talking about overall effectiveness, then I think it is. Maybe passing a minimum threshold and having a safety effective of say 95% vs 99% or something. It's obviously going to be a very high percentage threshold that needs to be crossed to allow the public to use it.

So, right now it's like a trial experiment with FSD, but I definitely feel like a data advantage would play out into a higher safety rating before it's in GA. Maybe eventually others will catch up, that could be quicker than longer, but it's a valid potential advantage for Tesla.