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In many ways, browsers have become Rube Goldberg machines for rendering text, images, and video.

A major reason people are concerned about the recent Mozilla layoffs is because they're one of the few competing browser vendors. Why does that matter? Because browsers are too complicated for reasonably sized teams to implement competing solutions. If a larger percentage of web content was accessible to simpler software, this would be much less of an issue.

It's not hard to make simple document browsers. My personal content is accessible in the console as plain text:

curl https://apitman.com/txt/19

nc apitman.com 2052 <<< /txt/19

I like the idea of splitting the web between documents and apps (and using separate browsers to access them), but don't necessarily agree making it incompatible is the way to go. I think specifying a subset of HTML/CSS and allowing the "new web" to grow over time might see more adoption better in the long run.
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An Odyssey usually refers to a journey of which only one survives. Hopefully you're both doing well! Excellent photography.

I watched 2001 a Space Odessy on an overnight international flight, it really emphasized the atmosphere of distance and isolation I felt.
The issue isn't whether neural networks work, the issue is the dataset. Look again at what the parent wrote:

> I'm always amazed that some people think performing statistical analysis (training neural networks) on text can lead to actual intelligence and knowledge about the world

Emphasis mine. The human brain does not develop what we know as human intelligence by analyzing text.
Yes. Specifically the way human brain interacts with environment, the same way any AGI will need to sense and react to an environment, the more real the better.

An interesting example would be if the NN learns something from a book, also fed it with the all the critique on that book ( the environment reaction ). So it can possibly learn from a human what is good or bad in that book, etc.

Then both AI and humans can speak the same language ( on terms.of "feeling"/sensing ) and eventually learn the proper context, so less parameters are needed.
I don’t understand how people can see a global response and repercussions like this and then politicize their local government’s attempt to keep the R0 below 2.5.
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Ah, I see. I think you're correct. I didn't realize that you were looking for a fully custom option.
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> The 'Chinese junk' meme is pretty tired at this point.

Buy the EV scooter, and put your money where your mouth is and post your progress as you use it (and only it) as a daily then. I'll gladly take back my words if you make it work. It may work temporarily and intermittently, but it's unreliability is what underscores that 'meme' to me.

> It's some basic car components, some motors and a battery, more or less.

Yes, but the notion of making it reliable is something that is simply not in the Chinese DNA of Manufacturing. Cutting corners everywhere and mass producing and saturating the Market with an inferior, albeit low priced, compromised product is what takes precedence and stealing the IP to mass produce an imitation isn't the same as developing something with your own in-house RD department and then refining and iterating as you ID problems and address them as you scale up production. Because with Chinese products once its shipped, its 'out of sight, out of mind.'

But, I don't have an EE degree so I'd like to see this challenge be met. I was however a privateer driver and mechanic in Motorsports since I was 16 until my mid 20s and spent quite a bit of my Auto career in 2 of 3 of Germany's Big 3 Manufactures in various roles onward after that--VW and BMW which are also known to be plagued with unreliable electronics. And then went to Nissan (which his what I drove/worked on all along) after that, so I know how to diagnose and wrench. A trend you should notice is how I followed the EV program development/transition of each manufacturer.

And those 'basic components' like batteries are something even Nissan Japan couldn't get right for nearly the first decade of the Leaf program and have only recently been able to achieve better reliability due to the arduous, and tireless refinement process as they were the first mover in the Industry.

I doubt anything with 4 wheels, EV and Made in China is going to make it to the US right now, and rightly so, given the current stance (which is still incredibly weak in my opinion) on the CCP.

So 2 wheels will have to do.

Clarity: I'm not a protectionist and I'm actually a staunch proponent of Free Markets, what I'm not in favour of is the CCP which is anything but Free Market.
IIUC the short version of the story is that PAL regions got Teletext while NTSC regions ended up with NTSC closed captioning instead?
I remember finding this video enlightening, a talk on the subject by someone who has worked on both X and Wayland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
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There was no increase of nuclear risk because of drones, and no need to increase the protection of the powerplants, for the very simple reason that there is nothing a drone can do against meters of reinforced concrete protecting the reactor. A drone big enough to do more than scratch the paint would be classified as a cruise missile, and that risk was understood since before the first nuclear powrplant was turned on.
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It's interesting how one generation's vision of utopia often becomes the dystopia of the following generation. In his time, Le Corbusier was heralded as the genius of modern architecture. Today, his buildings seem vaguely dystopian (to me, at least) and remind me of the recent 2012 Dredd movie.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dredd+movie+building&t=osx&iar=ima...

Fuller probably envisioned the shape of his buildings as futuristic and naturalistic, but to me, they look like nuclear power plants. Icons (as in a simplified, recognizable image) end up playing an unexpected role.

From the countries I've visited, I'd say Berlin (especially Prenzlauerberg) and Tokyo had the most pleasant version of urban design. With Berlin, most apartments have balconies, streets are wide enough to let shops expand onto the sidewalks, and public transit works extremely well. Tokyo mixes commerce with residential in a way that American cities get completely wrong.

There is also a city in Poland, Łódź, which also has a geometrically appealing layout: it's essentially a single long street with two concentrations at either end. The city itself is still recovering from the 90s and is fairly run-down outside of the center, but the conceptual simplicity has an appeal that's hard to describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotrkowska_Street
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I have less screen tearing in wayland/sway compared to X11/compton FWIW. Also everything being newer means configuration is easier to understand. In X11 there are too many tool combinations and it often requires googling and fiddling to change any configuration.
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I assume it's also because it's ridiculously compressible compared to more normal video of similar resolution?
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https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-town-didnt-want-to-be-a-rad...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-environment-i...

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry...

https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2008-09-20-year-long...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-10-30/scotland-expos...

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/un-atomic-agency-probing-del...

https://apnews.com/ba820f02074247fc8486b63b7c87d6cb/russias-...

https://www.upi.com/Energy-News/2008/09/08/Nuclear-waste-sca...

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-23...

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/02/oregons-response...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...
I HOPE this will happen, at least to me in my job. The current WFH has been an eye opener as far as quality of life goes. No more commuting, permanent access to great coffee, a fantastic computer screen, lovely chair and view (I actually see the Alps from my home desk), lunch with the family, get to sleep / do the dishes / walk in between meetings, no more dumb water cooler chat.

Same goes for the improvements of my private life: less time spend in bars & restaurants, more cooking and board games, less contact with random people but more quality contact with family and friends. Less public transportation but more cycling, less shopping but more structured buying.

The only thing that worries me with this new behaviour is the socialising of my kids (in their early 20's). Like, how do they meet new prospective partners? How will they gather experiences? How will they explore the / their world? But I guess that is a generation thing, my live developed in a different way than my parents', my children's will be theirs.
As a long time user of both Python and Ruby, Ruby has plenty of ad hoc magic, at least as much of Python, though it's likely you won't see that as much in whatever language you are less familiar with.
The TL;DR seems to be that if you restrict yourself to implementing an ISA from 20 years ago, your chip can indeed be patent free, but that isn't going to run modern software - maybe not even modern x86 32-bit software!
Don't put a lawyer in charge of a tech company.
High-tech California relies on startup in Utah to measure its smokiness (2019)
I've been using wayland for 4 years. It is stable and just works.
> The Fed prints money by giving free gifts to banks. That is, QE for $500 billion means banks are $500 billion richer.

This is a straw man, $500 billion in loans (normally above market value for collateral) means banks could be anywhere from 0-500 billion dollars richer but they are certainly not poorer.

>The first person to get a new dollar has an unfair advantage, since they can spend it before the rest of the economy knows about the extra dollar.

Have you seen the stock market lately? Investors have done well in this new easy money economy and until that money trickles down they certainly have it much easier than they otherwise would.

>Inflation is a deterministic function of the money supply. There wouldn’t be inflation if we didn’t create more money.

In the long run this is true. Especially the second statement, it's almost trivial to prove: Imagine an island with 10 dollars in circulation. The amount of goods produced doubles, and everyone is able to trade and consume all the goods. The price of the goods must necessarily be cut in half on average, so that the 10 dollars are able to pay for all the goods.
Definitely seems like a case of someone that wanted to publish a blog post for some internal kudos, but I'm not complaining. Always good to share knowledge.
Surprised to see so much misunderstanding here. “Byzantine fault tolerant consensus” problems have been solved with a trusted party since many many centuries. Entire modern monetary system is based on a trusted party - a central bank. Blockchain provides a way to remove trusted party out of equation. One can argue that existing system just works, why would you want to change something that works? Answer is simple - it does not work in many countries and trusted parties/authorities abuse their powers, sometimes in a ways that is not so easy to see.

First application of a blockchain is digital money which is free from a central authority. Here is real world scenario that happened in so many places. Your domestic currency is crushing, has lost 30% of it value already and is about to loose another 80%. You want to by US dollars and save what is left but you cannot because government temporary prohibited purchase of a foreign currency. I’m thinking about Russia, Belorussia, Venezuela and many many others.

Political activists get blocked by a banking system all the time. For example in Russia there is a “list of terrorists”, people on this list excluded form the banking system. This list probably has some terrorists in it but it also has quite a few activists in it as well. You can go to a protest, grabbed by a police and next day find yourself out of the banking system.

Decentralized money is at least partially a solution to issues arising form an authority abusing it powers as cryptocurrency cannot be blocked so easily. It does not have to be used much, it just has to be around.

Second blockchain application is smart contracts to simplify value transfer. For example shares offerings - when a company sells it shares to a bunch of investors. It often happens outside of an exchange, without IPO (search for Reg-A, Reg-D offerings). In this process a bank holds investor money until offering completes and a “transfer agent” hold stock in the name of an investor after. Bank and transfer agent are there only because of trust issues, someone has to guarantee that investor pays and receives shares. Investor cannot directly hand over cash to a company because it can fail to pay or company can fail to deliver it shares and then they will have to spend time and money in court. Both bank and transfer agent take their commission just because they trusted and licensed to hold value during and after transaction. These commissions are not small, a bank may take few percents for organizing an offering.

Shares can be issued on a blockchain and a smart contract can govern entire value transfer starting from escrow, to enforcing offering conditions and then to transfer of shares and money to counter parties. You can imagine banks might not be happy about loosing their profits but competition in democratic countries slowly but surely drives process in a right direction.

Similar examples arise all the time in international trade, trade clearing, interbank relationships, etc, etc. blockchain is a solution to all of this but maybe we need another financial crisis (when “trusted parties” became not so trusted) to speed up it adoption.
Win? What do they plan on doing without a vaccine? Stay shutin forever?
“I think they have to start reopening again – maybe have travel bubbles with New Zealand and countries like that,” he says. “Otherwise, no one can survive here.”

Sounds like there might not be much of a tourist industry left if they stay closed entirely.

Looks like Palau lost 40% of it's GDP with the loss of 100% of tourism.
I'm sure now that Amazon Prime Video won't ever get a decent UI, instead the current will remain horrible, but resilient at least.
You probably misread the title. Prepair is the name of the company whose logo Apple is filing a trademark objection.
I smell a Medium article coming up.
You would expect those deaths to show a signal in the all-cause, excess mortality. When I last checked, somehow, US still had lower excess mortality than the UK per capita. Although numbers are very low in the UK, whereas they are still pretty high in the US.
Well, Gemini can have links to pictures and clients may render pictures — inline, in separate "graphics" column etc. No one does it yet, as far as I know, but we will see.

Table and math bring more problems. Probably SVG or other images can solve them, but it is a pain for authors. In my opinion, no plain-text markup language today has tables with features even remotely close to HTML (at least colspan, rowspan and alignment) while remaining convenient to both write and read. AsciiDoc is fine in terms of features, but not in terms of syntax:

https://asciidoc.org/newtables.html
In the city I grew up in, official notices were routinely made in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese, and I regularly encountered people speaking Korean and Chinese as well. Even my grandma's rural town, with a population of under 5,000 and an hour's drive to the closest city, has people and restaurants representing four or five different nationalities. If you're perceiving the US as a country where everyone only speaks English and only eats at McDonalds, that's not accurate.
Right, Apple silicon has different rules.
It seems to be a messed up human tendency to turn their negatives into an identifier and the identifier into a positive. Essentially because they don't want to face up to the possibility of a mistake or that they could be better. So it is far easier to not only just say 'this is fine' while their house burns down around them but that people with non-flaming houses 'don't know what they are missing'.
Building a Telegram Bot with Apache Kafka and KsqlDB
From the geometry. Those things have the diameter of a city block. That's the problem with those old giant arcology designs. Too much volume for the amount of outside wall. They look great in drawings.

Yes, you can have a hollow center with interior balconies. It's been tried. It fails for residential.
Venus has 2400 times the atmospheric CO2 concentration of earth. It is 96% CO2. It also has an opaque atmosphere which prevents a lot of solar energy from radiating out on the dark side of the planet (as occurs on cloudless areas of earth at night). There isn't even that much carbon on planet earth. Perhaps the highest the earth has ever had was around 7000 parts per million. Mars atmosphere is also mostly CO2 but it's a frozen waste land. Of course, other factors are at play in deciding the temperature of Venus, Earth, and Mars besides CO2.

The greenhouse effect as described involves CO2 as a gas blocking a narrow band of IR solar light from being re-emitted into outer space. This is a probabilistic process, as gas molecules are in constant motion as are photons. As you increase the concentration of CO2, the effect becomes saturated, since the gas is already stacked in three dimensions. So there is less IR energy to absorb that isn't already being captured.

Clouds and atmospheric H2O have a much higher impact on climate. These are driven by oceanic patterns (which themselves are caused by geologic and solar forces).
A few of interest to me:

1. Is steelmanned buddhism wrong in important ways? Can some sort of minimal set of claims version of buddhism even be steelmanned consistently?

2. The joint-stock corporation appears to be the most scalable coordination tech ever invented. What is the embedding space of the things that make it possible and what else is in the space?

3. Does most progress come from pairs of people in high bandwidth collaboration? How could we test this and how could we scale the matching problem implied? If this is true why aren't there more famously successful twins? (also mentioned by Gwern)

4. Are dramatically better matching algorithms possible (lemon markets, costly signal bandwidth saturation)? Ones good enough that they would encourage more geographic mobility?

5. What's the natural embedding space of 'values'? If discovered and rendered tractable would this solve problems with our current attempts at formalization (VNM, Arrow's impossibility, various decision theory gotchas etc)?

6. Why are all the general purpose 'how to navigate life' resources so poor in quality? (also mentioned by Patrick)

7. Does DNA (and RNA?) transcription error rate emerge as a natural kind in large scale biological prediction? Does this create natural limits on malleability of biological systems?

8. Is there low hanging fruit in CNS imaging? Would this directly lead to dramatically better mental health interventions?

9. Can research stagnation be undermined by funding more research review enabling more cross collaborative legibility of researchers into each other's work?
Correction: Sites are javascript heavy because it is easy to accidentally create javascript-heavy sites, and the programmers who do this also do not care that they have done it.
Can you expand? I don't see the logical connection between "I can conceive it" and therefore it's possible.

I mean, it's possible aliens are so similar to us we could communicate and share values. I just don't see why we would expect it, given that they will have evolved in a completely different environment with completely different evolutionary pressures. We would be far more likely to figure out what whale songs mean than communicate meaningfully with aliens

I'll leave aside my personal favorite pet answer to the Fermi Paradox that we have not evolved the ability to even perceive aliens; but suffice to say when I mean aliens are different, I mean different, not just basically people with funny ears

So, to my mind, the question to answer is not "Why wouldn't aliens?" but "Why would they? How would it even be reasonably possible?"
We don't need everyone to be fully rational. Especially not when short selling is safe and easy to do.

With proper shortselling, a single entity can benefit from muckracking.

Of course, short selling is the first thing that gets banned at the drop of a hat. To give a timeless example: https://www.google.com/search?q=france+bans+short+selling

You are right that it can take a while in practice. We should make it easier for the reckoning to come.
On Linux, php -S 0:8080 is shorter if you're just testing (as it's meant for) and have a firewall - though it opens it for 0.0.0.0 (anyone who can reach your system).

Not sure about other OSes, I think I noticed this doesn't work on Windows once but that could also have been BSD or something.
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Well, unless your premise is that the less savoury aspects of some of Japan’s citizens’ views are responsible for the aspects of their country and society that we might admire (and I don’t think you are saying that) then this is tangential to the question we are discussing.

It’s not unreasonable to acknowledge or even admire some aspects of a person, a company, or a country, while also being aware that there are other aspects that are less admirable.
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Oh wow, I just wrote my own version of this rant, reaching a radically different conclusion:

https://lab6.com/0

TL;DR: I’m abandoning HTML and switching to PDF.
Lambda is fully managed, you can't use SSM to SSH into the underlying hardware because it's not exposed to you.
> persuading Web developers to use it is where the real problem lies, and that is immensely difficult and no-one has any good ideas for how to do it

Let the different subsets compete. You'd have multiple different simple browser that each support a different subset. Developers would have to choose which one they agree with and make their sites compatible. They would all render properly in full browsers. You can find the sweet spot over time.
> Yes, you can have a hollow center with interior balconies. It's been tried. It fails for residential.

Most buildings in Budapest are set up this way and I don't see how it fails. Technically they are hallways, not balconies, but they function the same way.
From the blog, most of the "chaos" is done by Amazon SSM agent running in ec2 instances. Lambda might not have this agent.