- >actually think this kind of low-information escapism about the future
I think this is called techno-utopianism. The "leaders" in technology have been doing this ever since the industrial revolution.
People sold the idea that street lights would fix "public morals" and eliminate crime.
Also see the progress trap and professor Simon Penny's work and what he calls the end of the anthropocene.
- Has there been an Indian government that will be viewed favorably through western lenses?
- Pt. Nehru wanted Socialism and State Control.
- Indira Gandhi brought the Emergency and all that came with that
- PM Vajpayee conducted the nuclear test
- PM Modi is viewed as an authoritarian and fascist
I think these cover the most influential leaders over the last 75 years. Only PM Manmohan Singh stands up to such scrutiny.
- A pivotal quote in the article:
>How could theocratic states with no separation of religion and government score higher than India? How could a country with universal suffrage and constitutional rights rank below nations that didn’t even hold elections?
Since the article talks quite a bit about Sanjeev Sanyal, I think it might be interesting to point to some of his podcasts.
Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiW-mH4qIOQ. Here he points out how the media has misrepresented India and exaggerated and sensationalized issues.
Similarly, India has taken criticism from the West over its more ambitious projects like Sardar Vallabhai Patel's statue, and the space program. So taking the West's word with a grain of salt is quite valid.
Further, the article points out that the government is trying to game the ranking while outwardly saying that they don't matter. This seems hypocritical at first glance but it also points out that having lower rankings affects investor confidence and borrowing rates. You can be against a broken system while still trying to appease it because it's not going to change immediately. The Indian Government needs to work within the system until something better can be created.
I am not fully supportive of everything the NDA government has done but I don't think there is another leader in India who can feasibly win an election right now and I refuse to support INC until they get rid of the Gandhi dynasty.
Also, please look at the podcast from this timestamp[2], where he further shows why people in general but Indians specifically should be skeptical of Western narratives. This is also supported by the book Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendahl
[2]:https://youtu.be/gNVMvlfMbCU?list=PLgZQtm7d9Z1K9TCynoA3S0QWv...
- If anyone has heard Joe Armstrong's talk about how communication is limited by latency and data can only travel so fast. I think having smaller a partitions locally is an optimal point.
If You want global consistency then you'll have to either spend some time at runtime to achieve it, Have complicated protocols, fast networking, synchronized clocks.
Does this look like actor model (from Erlang) if you squint a bit?
- Given the limited context length of most LLMs, is there value in turning in an entire codebase into a doc to feed it into an LLM?
I think cherry-picking relevant sections would be necessary to make it function effectively. Has anyone tried using tree-sitter to recursively feed it the source for functions used in the section we want to analyze to optimize for this?
- Zephyr RTOS[1] is an RTOS supported by the Linux foundation. It has similar structures to Linux for device configuration like a device tree and tries to emulate POSIXish APIs. I think some embedded people are put off by this configuration structure.
Notably, Zephyr RTOS is the basis of Nordic Semiconductor's SDK[2]. Nordic is a major manufacturer of cellular and wireless MCUs.
[1]:https://www.zephyrproject.org/ [2]:https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/ncs-latest/page/nrf/index...
Edit: GP seems to have a history of posting 1 line hot takes with no elaboration
- IIRC, Nvidia was already ahead in software support 5 years ago. Image recognition was the big thing and the only way I could train them was on Nvidia GPU or Google tpu.
With this context, the articles clain that
>Intel correctly identified AI as the future
seems tenuous at best.
It also claims that Nvidia was just a graphics company in 2019-20. This was clearly not the case for anyone training cv models at the time.
IDK what Gaudi is or what Habana Labs was developing. Does anyone know what the status of pytorch/tensorflow on Intel GPU hardware is? Because add far as research is concerned one of the framework has to be supported.
- Is it better to programmatically interact with bash to provide the features VSCode does? Do note that I am unwilling to accept an implementation with less features/ease of use!
I can see how writing a custom agent that provides remote access to privileged API's is a bad idea but bash isn't exactly the most secure piece of software in the world.
- That's an issue with any plugin system, right? AFAIK no IDE has a plugin system with capabilities or a sandboxed interpreter.
VSCode does have a thing where it's like do you trust the authors of this project. Not sure what it does because I've never had to use it. From StackOverflow[1]:
>If you select No, I don't trust the authors, Visual Studio Code will open the workspace in 'restricted mode'. This is the default for all new workspaces. It lets you safely browse through code but disables some editor feature, including debugging, tasks, and many extensions. However, keep in mind that 'restricted mode' is all you need for many use cases.
Actually if restricted mode[2] is any good, vscode might be better at security than most other editors/IDEs.
[1]:https://stackoverflow.com/a/67914669/11422647 [2]:https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/workspaces/workspa...
- This is going to sound naive but, I don't understand what the security issue is. If you can ssh into a machine and port forward a socket, you already have permission to do all the other things. VSCode's protocol seems to be exposing it in way that's more convenient for them.
How is this a security problem? Is it because someone on the same network as the remote machine but without SSH access can connect the port that is forwarded over SSH?
As a user, I quite like how well VSCode's SSH system works.
- Land in HK is weird. The lease thing is true but there are massive national parks that have nothing built at all.
The buildings that do exist are ~50 stories even though that's not optimal because of the typhoon situation. So constructive cost is high because government does not release enough land for development.
The rents are high because someone wants it that way. It's not a land scarcity problem IMO.
Also the government and the upcoming merge with China is strange in itself.
- This seems like temporal only without as much server and complexity. Maybe they ignore it or it really is that simple.
Overall really cool! There are some scalability concerns that are brought that I think are valid but maybe you have a Postgres server backing up every few servers that need this kind of execution. Also, every function shouldn't be its own step but needs to be divided into larger chunks where every request only generates <10 steps.
- No need to worry about how much luggage I have. It will likely be a minimal charge if there is even one
- Trains are more comfortable with larger seats, usually
- Trains will make tickets cheaper, putting downward pressure on flight tickets as well (competition)
- Less security theatre and less worrying about what I can and can't carry
- You can still have good internet access
This is in addition to the environmental benefits of trains.
Perfect is the enemy of good. More sections and branches can be added. Piecemeal is how transportation infrastructure grows everywhere. It does not come to fulfill everyone's needs all at once.