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Isn't the market for CAD software pretty much saturated? Most users learn one of the few established CAD programs during college or on the job and never learn anything else.

There is still an opportunity for a good opensource CAD program but only because the existing ones such as FreeCAD need an overhaul. Forking FreeCAD and fixing the glaring flaws would be significantly less work.
The FreeCAD project is stagnating. There is an issue about someone wanting a visualization of the internal coordination system of a datum plane. That visualization already exists in other parts of FreeCAD but when you go through the forum posts you see that one of the users is blocking this absolutely microscopic change because of mathematical purity. Mathematically speaking planes don't have an orientation and therefore this feature would not make logical sense and you should use a local coordinate system if you want to change the orientation, including visualization. Except FreeCAD implements a datum plane with an internal local coordinate system. This results to weird things like sketches being rotated by 90°. There is no way to know in which direction your sketch has been rotated without the requested visualization so even if you wanted you can't just reattach your sketch in the correct orientation. You first have to mark the "up" direction by drawing an arrow in the sketch and then orienting the sketch with the help of that arrow. There is no need to talk about mathematical purity when the software has already broken it and makes the user suffer as a result.
It looks like they are working on #4: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/lq3CH2Qcqc8

All points listed are very valid BTW.
This is just his way of pandering to the QAnon believers. They see him as this great leader, in an almost spiritual sense, leading the forces of light (them) against the forces of darkness (aka, the deep state, paedophiles, Satan worshippers, and "liberals"). From what I've seen, until recently, he hasn't exactly embraced any of that, but I suspect that since he has been behind in recent polls, he's doubling down on locking in the support of that core base.
Fair points, but only assuming that "we humans" will still remain mostly biological by that time. Which is barely suitable for anything complex, including modern tasks and parts of life.
Donald Knuth has indicated several times that the source code of TeX has been placed into the "public domain", and he strongly encourages modifications or experimentations with this source code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#License
I live rural, though not exactly the middle of no-where, but only option is a 10/1 fixed wireless service. I work full time at home (and run a SaaS company) ... with two young adult kids at home that last few months we have been burning around 500GB a month.

Do we stream Netflix @ 4K ... no, but it is quite workable at low res, the 1Mbps upload is the most painful portion.

My cell data is faster (but 50GB\month cap) so I will use that for large uploads to save time, and also as a backup since we get frequent fixed wireless outages (esp. in summer since any storm seems to cause problems).

I also occasionally spin up EC2 instances to remote to when moving around data to avoid dragging it down locally (usually video). Works fine ... remote desktop to a Windows instance is perfectly usable.

Zoom/Google Meet/etc work OK ... not great, but perfect usuable and a lousy connection is a good excuse to turn off video sometimes!

I hold out hope for 21st century technology some day, but wouldn't switch the trade-off of being more in-town for a faster connection.
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If you rely solely on things you read online, you might think that the US cellular infrastructure is a backward, antiquated, uncompetitive, monopolistic disaster, and that the progressive and forward-thinking European societies have done far better.

Yet the reality is, every time I go to Europe, I am struck by how irregular and slow cellular reception is, even in major cities (I’ve been in Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Zurich in the past year). And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as long as you’re not in literal wilderness.
When PowerShell runs on Linux, it doesn't show a "C:/" prompt. This is clearly running on Windows with WSL or Cygwin for the Unix tools.
It’s possible it doesn’t result in inflation if the general public doesn’t benefit from the stock market appreciation. Worse, it might make them poorer if they buy the top.

But it probably means hot markets like nyc, sf, la will remain very expensive.
Ok then - not sure I agree during SXSW, ACL, the many downtown conventions etc, but fine, let’s go with that.

It was during SXSW 2017 that RideAustin failed for 5 hours one night, and the alternatives (Fasten etc) also did not work. How many qualified customers never even opened the app again after being burned by that?
From note #13:

> The silicon implementation of the lower eight bits of the ALU / registers is flipped compared to the upper eight bits. The motivation is to put the ALU signals next to the flag circuitry that needs these signals.

This caught me out because I was expecting some more obvious rotation or discernible mirroring of the upper half and lower half. Is the layout of bits 15:8 entirely different yet logically equivalent? Looking closely though I do see some similarities in the outer circuits at the very top and very bottom, yet there is a large gap across the lower bank.
For about a year now i am working on an iOS Application that requires good OCR. With the release of iOS 13 Apple has added an API for this in their Vision Framework and i have to say i am shocked how good it works. It works completely on device and, according to Apple, uses Machine Learning.

You can feed it an image that contains text, with the only constrained being that the text should not be rotated. Depending how much text there is it can digitize a 12MP image in about .5 to 2 seconds on an iPhone Xs.

I compared it to ABBYYs OCR SDK and i have to say Apple's OCR outperforms it nearly every time both in speed as well as in recognition quality. I am still fascinated by it and would really like to know how this is working under the hood.
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All of the examples in your blog post are examples of code that is obviously safe. I think extending that analogy to something as large as a nontrivial C++ library (one you'd need CXX to integrate with) is such a huge stretch that it kind of feels disingenuous as an argument. However, your current stated justification ("using the library is equivalent to unsafe") is at least a little more understandable to me; nonetheless, the standard in Rust is syntactically writing `unsafe` and I'm glad that dtolnay found a compromise that worked for everyone.

(I will point out, however, that I still seriously doubt that every single one of these autogenerated functions is safe, and will probably avoid libraries that use CXX for that reason. But at least now someone who hasn't heard of CXX can come to that conclusion independently :)).
Uber and Lyft both have commuter arrangements that cost more on the order of $2.50-3.50 a trip. Mainly focused on the GGP claim that these services are strictly luxury.
>if the birth rate will start climbing due to COVID-19

Shifts in birth rates of developed countries are a drop in the ocean of global birth rates. "Developed" lives have a heavier ecological footprint, but it all pales in comparison to the shifts resulting from increased industrialisation of developing countries. Depressing demand for industrial goods and services (because of lockdown) is bound to have a much bigger impact than making a few kids more or less.
I agree that that's the least painful implementation. But last time I tried FF mobile, the behaviour had changed and it was giving me search suggestions (as in actively contacting a search engine as I was typing), with no way to turn it off. That's a deal breaker for me.

If I want to search in just my history, I can simply press CTRL-H and type to search in history.
Yes, how dare these machine learning scientists use backprop? I mean, there are better methods our there, right?
It's the fallacy that market success implies competence.
You're right, thank you so much for spotting this. That error was fixed.
I'm not sure how useful this is to you but there is an OpenSCAD workbench for FreeCAD. [0] In theory you should be able to export STEP files via FreeCAD.

[0] https://wiki.freecadweb.org/OpenSCAD_Module
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I persuaded my (then) in-laws not to invest in Amazon at this stage (I was the 2nd employee at the company). They would have certainly put in $50k or so. Fortunately, they are lovely Quaker people and as far as I know have never held a grudge against me because of this (incorrect) advice.

There are some inaccuracies in this article, too. Most of the investment window described here actually took place in 1995 - Jeff had enough cash to see things through the end of 1994. He and Mackenzie did not live in a 1 bedroom apartment that they "rented when they moved to the city" - they rented a house in Bellevue and the already-converted garage was the first Amazon office. They may well have moved to 1 room apartment later, as it became clear that the company would definitely be in Seattle itself.
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I can't wait for the first time an AI squadron gets a sortie phoned in and it turns out no one double checked to make sure the info was good.

Are there any metrics on pilot's making abort calls and not attacking anywhere?
This seems like an alternative to Zerolog, with some very small performance improvements. I don't understand why you wouldn't just improve Zerolog, or at least (if the original authors don't like your changes) just fork it. For me, while this looks decent, it doesn't justify an entirely new project, nor do I see any particular reason to switch.

Personally, I wish there was more focus on assimilating context.Context. While I dislike Context for its virulence in codebases, it's a necessary evil at this point. Correlating log statements with some request and following the logic flow (not just within a single app, but across apps) becomes really important in complex systems. The only way to really accomplish this is to flow the logger through Context. You should never instantiate a new logger except at the root of the program.
> “But even the coverage of the current 4G network still isn’t sufficient, especially in rural areas,”

Ah yes, yet another wonderful example where 5G will excel.
https://whyy.org/segments/could-old-skulls-help-us-understan... mentions a hypothesized shift from breast feeding to bottle feeding during the industrial revolution.
Your own link says:

The Department is not aware, however, of any court that has found that a defendant possessed monopoly power when its market share was less than fifty percent.(30) Thus, as a practical matter, a market share of greater than fifty percent has been necessary for courts to find the existence of monopoly power.(31)

Apple currently has 46% market share in the smartphone market (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...) and is below this threshold.
Magic Earth (closed source freeware) uses maps from OpenStreetMap, but also has data for street numbers in certain regions including the US.

https://www.magicearth.com

It's a convenient middle ground between Google Maps and OsmAnd until the FOSS apps improve.
I don't have much experience with it myself but based on what you said it sounds like there's a real need to have the geometry definition language embedded within a full programming language, like the parent comment said.

In the meantime another possibility might be to write a code generator for the scad language.
Do you know if NOP is really executed as `XCHG AX, AX` (as would be implied from its position in the opcode map and its cycle count) or if it is special-cased in some way?

I've always been curious about the XLAT instruction. It performs an operation like `MOV AL, [BX + AL]` (if that were a valid instruction). I assume this instruction was designed to do EBCDIC <-> ASCII conversions using a simple loop consisting of `LODSB / XLAT / STOSB` which would explain why the input and output are both hardcoded to AL. But it seems like it would have been fairly easy to allow the programmer to specify different register(s) and the instruction probably would have been a lot more useful generally if that was allowed.

It is the only place in the ISA that I know of where an 8-bit value is zero-extended to 16 bits before being added to another value. Short jumps use a sign-extended 8-bit value (and are a special case anyway since they deal with the instruction pointer). Other additions are always 8+8 or 16+16. Is there some special case in the processor to allow just AL to be zero-extended in this way? If so, that would go some way toward explaining why this instruction isn't more flexible. I realize this may be very difficult to determine working from a die photo, at least without completely reverse engineering the entire microcode ROM.
>> I am struck by how irregular and slow cellular reception is, even in major cities

Did you use a local SIM?

Maybe is your network/roaming data plan. Some(most) networks throttle/restrict your bandwidth when in you are in roaming.
To counter your example, I doubt people would go back to print encyclopedia once wikipedia were to be banned. Wikipedia has fundamentally changed the way one looks up reliable information online, with simple computer-enabled features such as searching, cross-referencing,fact-checking, etc. We would likely see people getting dumber (due to the lesser and scattered number of sources) or relying on less reliable internet sources for information. Or outright piracy, which is of zero utility to the publishers.

Ride sharing has fundamentally changed the way I travel in developing countries. It's much easier to rely on an app's set price rather than haggle with taxi drivers on offers far higher than Uber's. On the other hand, I have found less utility in developed countries where it's much easier (and cheaper in general) to rent/buy your own car, or rely on a cab meter. Likewise I don't really see people moving back to the old ways - on the contrary, a number of taxi companies and cities are already exploring/already begun app-based services.

Maybe a few years from now, we might see Star Alliance type industry groups within the taxi industry.
The primary reason I want to remain in the Bay Area is because my family and friends are here. I grew up in the Bay Area and can't imagine packing my bags and leaving them behind. That being said, I'm unemployed and not in a position to be picky. If the opportunity is great, I'll be open to relocating.
This aligns with my experience in London.

I spent a good couple hours troubleshooting my phone until someone told me the entire telecom had an outage.

Something I've never seen in the US.

This happened twice in the short time I was there and this was with their largest network provider.
> And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as long as you’re not in literal wilderness.

Most of the land area in the US is wilderness, though (okay, maybe half? Certainly at least a third).

We’re used to having coverage along major highways through long stretches of the country - yes - but as soon as you make a turn for a rural road and drive for a few miles you’ll lose signal.
> There are lots of ways to do anything

This is a sign of a mature platform that develops but maintains backward compatibility.
It's an obvious short opportunity but how can you know how long the market will remain irrational?
Yessir, same thing in Denmark. Ordered Wi-Fi for my new apartment two weeks before I moved there, just so I knew it would be activated when I moved in. Ridiculous.

I do think some of the new fiber companies are same-day, though.
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Here in Poland it seems nobody is truly enforcing this. Technically, you cannot enter anything without masks but neither employees nor patrons will react. Most people also wears their masks without covering their nose which shows how much attention they are paying to the whole thing -- the masks are only there to avoid a hefty fine.

In this situation it is difficult to blame students. Young people have innate tendency to ignore orders and if "full" adults (I don't really like the term...) cannot show united front on somethnig then youngsters certainly won't.
How about:

In an authoritarian regime/mass surveillance state everyone is suspicious?
The Soviet model is not proof that no other model could ever succeed.

However it (and other failed communisms) are proof of particular failure modes. Given that these are the outcomes we know about, they are a reasonable null hypothesis.

Amongst modern proponents of socialism I have not so far seen anyone actually say how those failure modes would be avoided.
Check this [0]:

"Around 9 million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases"

"A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds"

and also, by the end of the article:

"2.5+ billion people in need of water"

I don't care if its a "slum" or not, it could be happening in Switzerland and it wouldn't make a difference for me as I'm not discussing the "aesthetic" side of the argument. If people on a Mars colony have enough food and water (which they almost certainly will), they will be doing better than the ones referred to at in the article.

0: https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...
They haven’t gotten much love on this site but I recently switched to hey.com after being a gmail user since beta in 2004 and couldn’t be happier. I like the “feed” for newsletter-y things (with a neat scroll to preview messages view) and the paper trail for transactions. There’s also something empowering about the simple “thumbs up” “thumbs down” screening queue for new senders.

I will say, however, that I never realized just how infrequently I receive mail that actually warrants my attention (let alone a reply) and that feels sort of lonely in a funny way.
iCloud is the only one with servers in China, so it is objectively the worst privacy-wise.
If it can be used safely in production, great, but I'm not seeing that here.
I am old so I have worked for various big and small tech companies, including most of the ones being discussed here.

Google is the one I would trust with my data.

They know how to do hosting at scale (unlike some really quite large and famous companies who suck at that), although not perfect, they have a humanist moral compass in their culture, and I don't expect them to go out of business.

I would not make myself reliant on a niche Google product (like Google Reader) as those tend to vanish, but a mainstream Google service like GMail or YouTube is a great reliable thing. If you think other companies are more moral than Google, you are fooling yourself.
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Right, this is why I don't actually think the object is a probe: if there is no competition, then a million years from now, we can expect Earth-originating technology will have spread across the galaxy. To imagine that another civilization exists but is no more than a million years ahead of us seems like too much of a coincidence.
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> People have been raising flags about this for literally decades now and the other shoe has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way.

Besides all the hypothetical horror scenarios I have one argument that at least for me is strong: I just don't want them to track me. In some cases (like posting this comment) I accept the tradeoff, but I want to be able to choose.

These sort of evasive techniques are about allowing people who want to make that choice for themselves to also have a choice of participating in modern life.
I'm not seeing an argument here. Mammalian evolution is great. So is backprop. They're both methods to efficiently search the state-space of parameters. If your argument is scale, you have to argue how scale precludes a sufficiently general learning algorithm and enough computation from capturing the underlying structure.

>The biochemistry of a single neuron is likely oodles more complex than the most complex AI we've made.

There's a lot of biochemistry in service to supporting the neurons existence exclusive from its functional properties for the brain. In terms of a neurons I/O mapping, deep learning has that covered[1]

>Yes, it's basically all just statistics... but we still don't understand how to go from statistics to intelligence.

But this assumes intelligence isn't an emergent phenomenon of sufficiently general learning. GPT-3 suggests this might be the case.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/613141v1.full.pdf
As a counterpoint, my ML team regularly dumps data into Google Sheets for review / note taking, and we build dashboards using some SQL dashboarding tools.

I've cobbled together email sign up forms for some non-technical side projects with Google Forms, App Script and MailChimp.

I'm not a frontend developer so maybe frontend folks will tell me it's super easy, but my feeling is that there is a lot of space for low code tools that produce software that is not polished, but good enough.
You are looking at the forest cover lost in Suriname only for that time period.

The bot gathers global forest cover loss for a given day and compares the aggregated of every country against the selected country from the list.

I thought I made it already pretty clear on the way the statuses are written, how would you write them to make it clear that its global area compared to that country rather as that country area only?
I actually find that hole in Rust really bad and would be happy if Rust's runtime closed this loophole. Not sure why people think "hah! You'd have to disable being able to write bytes to random memory addresses, too!" is an argument ad absurdum, the fact that you can do that is terrible and dangerous.
> and in the second case – only the US government.

And some percentage of Google employees. Probably not really a big deal, but still there.
You don't need to tell remote employers where you're located until after they get a chance to interview you, you could say you live in California without being super specific as to where in California you live. Since the job is remote they only need to know roughly where you live. After they hire you they may find out but then they have decided you're great for their team.
For much of Amazon's early history, it was something of a laughingstock, as the company had clearly stated that it didn't plan to make money in the foreseeable future, if ever. At a minimum, it made the company difficult to value (and still does).

One of Amazon's important achievements was to attract and retain investors willing to go along for the "their margin is our opportunity" inexorable slow-boat ride to dominance.
I didn't mean to say you have aphantasia, sorry. I was just trying to give an FYI. The story I linked was an eye opener the way he explained how it works in his head was amazing.
> For OpenAI to become a healthy and profitable business, GPT-3 will require them to generate ~50-300 million dollars from the model.

On top of that, does anyone have an idea for what practical applications the model could be used? So far I've only seen the model being used to confuse people; how would one turn that into an ethical business? It seems to me that the "BS route" is indeed the logical course.
What costs should be reduced to match the reduced revenue in this scenario? That's where things get tricky.