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Ask HN: How to remotely support older parents with bad health/lifestyle habits?
My parents turned 70 this year. They both have deteriorating health and independence, albeit in different ways. I want to help them but they are very set in their ways. What would you do? My mother has hip mobility issues and is extremely stubborn about any invasive procedures. She needs surgery but vehemently refuses it …
The psychology and biology of gifted children and highly intelligent people
Much has been written about gifted and high IQ people and to a large extent, the focus has been on their cognition, for obvious reasons. I have a gifted son and as many parents of gifted children can attest, these kids can be quite challenging for any parent: from daily chores, such as buckling up …
If I’m being honest, I didn’t have what it takes to be a founder
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working with some truly spectacular founders. One guy was a three-star general at one point. Another is in the U.S. because his research is so far ahead of the AI learning curve that the U.S. State Department issued him an O-1 extraordinary ability visa. Another had a …
Arctic Weather Satellite in shape
Applications 20/11/2023 2176 views 73 likes Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to Germany where it is starting a series of tests to make sure that it will survive liftoff …
Fast Llama 2 on CPUs With Sparse Fine-Tuning and DeepSparse
neuralmagic | 11/22/23 Key Takeaways We expanded our Sparse Fine-Tuning research results to include Llama 2. The results include 60% sparsity with INT8 quantization and no drop in accuracy. DeepSparse now supports accelerated inference of sparse-quantized Llama 2 models, with inference speeds 6-8x faster over the baseline at 60-80% sparsity. We used some interesting algorithmic …
Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama
Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week. In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk drew attention to an anonymous letter accusing Altman of various examples of underhanded behavior as CEO of OpenAI. The …
Wang Huning on American Technology and American Greatness
Wang Huning, fourth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee, has served as China’s ideologue-in-chief for the past two decades. He has been called the “world’s most dangerous thinker” and the “éminence grise” of Xi Jinping. Yet long before Wang was elevated to high office, he was a young political scientist eager to learn everything he …
Cloudflare blocking me suddenly from loads of sites
It started about a week ago. I use Firefox, locked down a bit, with UBlock Origin. Anyone else getting issues? I recently switched ISP and it happened after that but it also happens with NordVPN running. Nothing else changed with my setup. This is getting ridiculous. I’ve read on here many many times about Cloudflare …
Work For Only 3 Hours A Day
The 30-hour workweek: Often celebrated by employees, feared by business representatives. Discussions about a shorter workweek have been ongoing for a long time and don’t seem to be ending. What future scenarios can arise from changes in working hours, and is it realistic that we will all only work three hours a day in the …
Our journey from React Native to Expo for mobile app development at Alan 🛤️ | by Xavier Seignard | Alan Product and Technical Blog | Nov, 2023
Credit: internet At Alan, we’ve always been committed to providing the best user experience possible, and this extends to our own engineers, through what we call the developer experience. We believe that a great developer experience is essential for building high-quality software and that it’s a key factor in attracting and retaining top talent. We’ve …
