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Why insist on calling this a queue when it doesn't really have queue semantics? Queues do the job of load balancing between different workers. When workers acknowledge tasks, they …

I think its pretty clear that in the coming decade intelligence and cognitive labor is going to become very cheap. So your kid should develop some skills outside of that to stay co…

Apple has invested a lot in making sure that they STAY in "an order of magnitude better position". They know that the ultimate winner in personalized AIs will be whoever has the be…

The answer to what they're building is written on Karpathy's twitter - "A kind of Jarvis"

Hi everyone, author of the article here. I'm sorry if the article sounds overly pessimistic. I'm not making any claims with this article. I'm not proposing anything either. I do th…

You are being given a chance to dispute it. Give an example of a problem that any human would be easily able to solve but GPT4 wouldn't. >> "good model of a model of reality" That …

We resolve this in two ways 1. All git-lfs files are kept in the same folder 2. No one can directly push commits to one of the main branches, they need to raise a PR. This means th…

If you just want a git for large data files, and your files don't get updated too often (e.g. an ML model deployed in production which gets updated every month) then git-lfs is a n…

I can't imagine it, which is why I asked. You certainly seem skeptical. Your arguments aren't very convincing though. >> Too many different start batteries Okay... that's because t…

Waiting anywhere while your car is charging seems like an awful user experience. I've always imagined that a quick battery swap service would become the standard. Don't know how fe…

The second case is preferable if numbers is an Optional[List] , which is usually the case when passing lists around as arguments. def custom_sum(numbers: Optional[List[int]] = None…

I'm a very passive hackernews reader, and don't engage much with posts. I want to break that passivity to say that Visidata is the tool that has given me the greatest joy out of an…