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> The fact something that exists is selling better than something that doesn't exist doesn't really prove much :)

On the contrary, it proves that the other thing doesn't exist. Which is sort of important to analysis.

I know that's glib. My point was the pontification about what "self driving autonomy" is or should be or might be or is supposed to be or (my personal peeve) "is supposed to be called" is essentially meaningless when we could be discussing what is actually happening in a vibrant and interesting market.

I get it. People think about this stuff in the abstract. But it's not an abstract problem anymore, and I think arguments like yours are very much missing the forest for the trees.

Roll back the clock to, say, 1985 and let's imagine we're talking about network technology. Elon is selling a working TCP/IP stack while you're yelling about the fact that akshooally it doesn't conform to the proper OSI layers and so can't ever be a successful network. How did history work out for the OSI pedants? Same principle.
I'm just saying it's not specific to the web. It's not some specific failure of front-end technology compared to others. It's not a failure at all, nor is it amazing, it's just par for the course.
Is this a cosplay account? the real Henry kissinger probably would be in favor of political prisoners.
Problem is humans, we'll treat L3 as L4 and get distracted enough by that funny video or a phone call.

Which brings the ques is L3 really better than whatever L Toyota is at?
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Dont underplay the “coolness factor.” The moon landing was pretty cool. Not practical, but freaking cool.

We need more coolness in public policy.
> Standard React could still be a bloated mess.

React is ~6KB (even less g-zipped). React is very performant and its performance was one of it's original claims to fame over previous frontend frameworks like Angular.
BCI could unlock human immortality.

BCI is a hard problem, and the risk to reward ratio for current generation tech is too high except for a few isolated cases: non-invasive, which is low-resolution, and disease remediation, which is basically a measure of last resort. Given the poor payoff, the technology isn't invested into.

If we can get out of the gravity well / steep energy slope that prevents us from reaching the pinnacle, we can maybe one day become capable of performing brain copies and uploads, which effectively achieves immortality. This would be the most impactful technology ever developed for humans, should we still be relevant at that point. There's a huge hill to climb in getting there, and it's unlikely we'll see it within our lifetimes, if ever.

AGI, if developed first, would probably see little need in co-opting messy and overly-complicated human machines.

And there's always the chance we destroy ourselves first.
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High-bandwidth wireless link, for existing human brain interfaces.

They miniaturized the reciever and slapped a wifi chip on it.

Cool.

They aren't beaming thoughts into brains tho.
This is the one place where Tech Companies have been given no opportunity to help. A thousand tech companies would have loved to build such a system but ass-backward government procurement processes are the problem here.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...
Interesting. But it makes sense: Vaporization of detergents and other elements in the water.

Some sources:
[1] https://www.haywardscore.com/articles/is-your-dishwasher-imp...
[2] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/826
I am shocked to see Google use that dark pattern. I even assumed for a second that I was on some kind of fake site that appeared like Google but wasn’t actually them.
Making charcoal is not energy-positive and still only results in about 50% carbon capture, best case scenario. Burning it in a biomass plant with good carbon capture does better and displaces carbon-emitting generation processes at the same time. As an added bonus biomass plants are excellent 'baseload' type plants, a feature that wind, solar, etc are missing without expensive storage and complex management schemes.
Question 2 cannot be answered without tying into history and politics..

Climate change trends will likely be negative for US food production and citied... but excellent to Russian food production and affect barely any Russian infrastructure.

Climate change is objectively good for Russia; devastating for Bangladesh, probably very bad for US and Europe..

So question 2 is hard for that reason too.
I made an awful line editor in the 1990's, entirely in Bash. It used Bash arrays to buffer the text.

There is a surviving piece of it: a line editing routine. For many years, that was included in GNU Bash as one of the examples:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/examples/scr...

They had the good sense to remove that.
Entirely depends on the individual. With a virtual on-screen keyboard, I can rarely type even one word without error. It's like my fingertips are just too big to hit the keys accurately. Swipe-keying is somewhat better/faster but I'm much better with real physical keys. Speech-to-text used to be pretty bad but with my current phone it's better than typing, for me. The downside is I hate talking to computers.
I have a memory as a kid (35ish years ago) of watching a gas station mechanic pour used motor oil into a oddly dug hole in the ground.

I have no idea if that was a common practice.
I would surmise that the talent knew better than anyone how over-hyped and overly optimistic full self-driving was (is), and what huge challenges still remain. Talent take the best deal for themselves while the getting is good. By the time the hype cycle is over, they're on either a tropical island or in some different field.
Not sure if it's the same stuff exactly or if the cost includes reprocessing but there's an amine cycle that seems to be mostly closed that's used for CO2 removal on submarines. So it's just used to separate CO2 from the rest of the output. I think that's what this sentence is talking about:

> Notably, it is projected that this solvent can operate at a regeneration heat rate of 2.0 GJ per tonne CO2 for post-combustion capture

Smarter Every Day did a video on it and atmosphere management on a submarine more generally which is pretty neat. The CO2 scrubbing is around 20 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Ud6mHdhlQ
What's a good one?

I've tried a number of them but haven't found one that would work well for wallpapers such as these.
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/warrantless-house-search/

> yet houses are still sold without built-in surveillance cameras, that would let law enforcement look at the recording of what you were doing (with a warrant, of course!)

yet, but it could come. I can imagine offline AI detector that spies on you 24/7 in your house and only sends footage when it detects something illegal so the police wouldn't do the monitoring. I could see plenty of people being ok with that specially if it's advertised as a good way to proof your innocence.
Yep, get a [Brain Passport] for [Public Safety] or be denied public services. Actually, this is something that will likely happen. It will first start with violent criminals and then gradually make its way into the general public - with appropriate cherry-picked data and statistics showing its advantages.
Market leader in terms of working functionality in products that consumers can buy today. Unbiased reviews have consistently shown that Tesla is inferior.

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/cadillac/escalade/2021/cadil...

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/cadillac-super-cr...
We fail at manual state-management, and the mostly used patterns we are using are complex leaky abstractions.
To get into whatever event you're trying to get into.
Hi, Good idea, I'll add that.

Right now you can do -> "Podcast Player" -> "RSS", but I realize that is non-obvious.

Updated
> at best it makes a long drive slightly less fatiguing

...which sounds like kind of a killer feature to me? (Like, it really is -- I may be within days of pulling the trigger on a Model Y).

Can you walk back and explain how making long drives more fun is somehow a disappointment?
Learn something about how financial markets work before you make a blanket statement that options are gambling. Yes, you can gamble on options if you don't know what you're doing, but they are a financial instrument that can be used to hedge risk and make informed financial decisions that result in great rewards.
Inner city taxi service you can build with a relatively small number of cars on a per-city basis.

Doing highway routes as a taxi service will need more cars and/or pre-booking, otherwise you end up with a situation where no cars are in the stating city. Within a city you can redistribute relatively quickly.

This leaves an assistant mode in a car owned by an individual. There you see more and more advanced assisting systems, like distance checkers and lane keeping things and those are improving ...

For a truck it's only valuable in some situations. Generally the driver isn't only there to drive the truck, but also to load/unload and protect the goods. Also one could wonder how well people would load the truck (especially one going to different locations) if there is no driver risking his life and therefore doing at least basic safety ...
I'm not on Facebook for 2years, but I'm thinking about downloading the database just to see If I'm in it. I don't care about other records. Or do I have other options to figure it out?

Edit: I forgot about haveibeenpwned.com. Any info about when they will add this leak?

Edit2: Haveibeenpwned added 2.5 million email addresses. But it's possible that my record doesn't have email.
Doing the work on the client can sometimes be the right choice, but I'll share a converse point. I was tasked with implementing a bulk record upload feature. The UI was to accept up a CSV file with up to 1 million records. The API provided by the backend team accept max 1,000 records in JSON.

So now I have to convert CSV, for which there's no official specification, to JSON, and then make (up to) 1,000 HTTP requests via HTTP 1.1 -- and a different back end team owns rate limiting for all ingress. I end up using a package called 'promise-limit' to ensure only N number of requests are open at a time; firing 1,000 simultaneous XMLHttpRequests is a bad idea. I end up fielding bug reports concerning the translation to JSON for edge cases. And collating the 1,000 network responses for any individual record that failed to persist was something we didn't get to building. So users were uploading 1M records, had some proportion fail, and had 0 visibility into what data the system had, and what data didn't make it.

Eventually, we gutted all of that and the backend team added a file upload endpoint. But explaining why this shouldn't be a front end feature, to folks who primarily or exclusively do backend work, it's tough to communicate (1) all the pain points of dealing with the complexity in the front end and (2) the scalability issues. "Can't you just do it on the front end" is such a frequent retort I receive, for things we truthfully should do on the backend.
I want to say this is hyperbole but it’s actually correct. I don’t even have JavaScript enabled anymore.
Yeah, only reason I was thinking of Vulkan is that afaik it (and DXR) is the only way to use RT cores at all. Not for the other fancy stuff that big game engines need and use (complicated state/resource management etc).

And I'd be kinda surprised if you couldn't do something interesting with RT cores even in size-limited formats (possibly more in 64k than 4k though), even if maybe not quite the way nvidia intended.
IF you enjoy this kind of thing, (and you aren't already an acoup fan), he wrote an entire article about the biker-gear-leather-fetish trope in Game of Thrones: https://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-that-dothraki-hord...
Yet, natives in Canada are slaughtering wildlife like no others...
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Thats sounds to me like this: if you want drive though my land, I am driving, but if i hit anyone you go to jail.

I dont know much about ships, but thanksfully on land law doesnt work that wY
There's also https://mbasic.facebook.com, which is even more lightweight and still allows you to send and receive messages.
Because we were not using any numerical properties of the hash. We were not adding it to other hashes, seeing if it was greater than or less than other hashes, etc.

Literally the only thing we were doing was passing it between shell commands, helm charts, Kubernetes deployments and then back (if we needed to debug).

It sounds like you have a more attractive alternative in this case than to treat hashes as strings. Would love to hear it.
Are you a new manager or know someone that is and needs help?
I created a new managers training for our employees (via an email sequence of the best short form content I've found over the years) and thought it could be interesting to send to others to see if it helps. Feel free to reach out with any questions and hope it's useful!
With the track records we have of power and technological abuses, I'm not sure I'm excited about having a direct interface to my head.

In fact, I would be more excited about IRL laws tuning down what some are doing with the current indirect interfaces to my head, such as fake news, propaganda, advertising and manipulations of all sorts.
Wikipedia page about Roman Kroitor is pretty sparse. Here's what was written of him when he passed away in 2012[1]:

"He was not a religious man, but his large and humane spirit was the force that imbued all of his projects, both the films he made himself and those he nurtured for others.

Roman Boghdan Kroitor was born in Yorkton, Sask., on Dec. 12, 1926. His father, Peter, a teacher who had emigrated from Ukraine, died when Roman was four or five. His smart, determined and resourceful mother, Tatiana (nee Shewchuk) taught in one-room schools to support her family, moving him and his older sister from one community to another across the Prairies before settling in Winnipeg when he was of high school age.

The film board, which was such a continuing presence in his life, was also a matchmaking catalyst. Through his NFB friends, he met his wife, Janet (Ferguson's sister), in Ottawa, where she was working at the National Design Centre. They were married in December, 1955, and had five children, a son and four daughters, and nine grandchildren."

[1]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/roman-kroitor-8...
In video game terms we unlocked another planet, then shortly later unlocked a new mechanic on it. Pretty exciting TBH.
plastic surgeons usually perform procedures that are not medically necessary, but only improve appearance to boost patient's self-esteem (boob job, facelift, butt job, etc)
The notion of a neurally connected Facebook or Google scares the heck out of me. Apart from the countless petabytes of data they would collect, just imagine a world where the powers that be can actually tap into your thoughts, perhaps even implant ideas that they think you should have. At a certain point, we lose our individuality and become subsumed by the global AI, game over.

But before that distant dystopian point is reached, I do hope we develop ways for paralyzed people to regain sensory control and live normal lives.
Also, perhaps interesting, Jesse Livermore, one of the best traders ever, got started when barely an urching making 3 bucks out of a $5 bet in one of these outfits ...
Which Soviet technologies were later developed in the West?
I'd ask you to consider that whenever you turn on a lightbulb or a computer screen you're already interfering with your body's agency over this particular chemical. Don't spend 10 hours every day outdoors? You are well out of natural parameters already.
> There is something very strange in the WWW, when a self-taught amateur like me can make a site that is better than the New York Times

Would love to see something that does everything the NYTimes does that is clearly and obviously "better."
Except if you have a root certificate, then you can MITM you heart away. Which govs probably have.
Hmm, that could be a potentially interesting model in and of itself. Rather than presuming near-term viable full autonomy, use the equivalent of drone pilots in remote locations.

If the tech/network were reliable enough to make that work at scale, the service would be much more efficient than Lyft/Uber: minimized cost of labor whether the rider is in New York or India, an abundance of available drivers or riders to match with at any hour of the day, dramatically reduced odds of physical violence between drivers and riders, and elimination of social pressure for drivers and riders to talk to each other. The main (debatable) downside I see is the major up front capital expenditure of rolling out and maintaining a global fleet of remote/autonomous vehicles, whereas Lyft/Uber can rely on drivers providing pre-existing vehicles and eating all the negative externalities of ride sharing.

If you start with the assumption of humans as the primary drivers rather than assistants, then any amount of the work you're able to automate (both in the present and increasingly over time) is just gravy.
Old as in circa 1970's. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

Still a great saying though.
This is such a great point. With apples, some trees produce fruit that is terrible for eating but great for cider-making. There are some great producers here in the New York/Hudson Valley region making cider partly from wild and feral apple trees.
I've been working over a year as front end dev and my main complain is that I feel the whole thing is a bit unstable. How do you choose the right tool when it comes to JS? You can go vanilla, use jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, Svelte... and that's just talking about the big ones. CSS seems a bit more stable with BootStrap still having the biggest share and Tailwind coming as a strong contender.
I'm pretty sure we all thought about JS frameworks first when we read 'front end development has failed'. But how about UI/UX? We had 4 designers so far at work. One of them was really good and left. The others were good designers, but not good web designers. Modern design is bloated, sometimes not intuitive because we all want good looking things, who cares if they aren't as functional. And after all, when you visit a website, not as a programmer or a designer, as a consumer, what do you want? Speed, usability and content. You don't care about animations, parallax effects or if the company used jQuery or React.
My opinion is that there are use cases for certain technologies but sometimes we overdo things.
Waymo is far more advanced than anyone else, but not cheap enough to undercut the pay of an Uber driver ($9/hour?). There's still huge value if the Waymo Driver (their name for the self-driving system) can be added to private vehicles as a upgrade. A car that could pilot itself on road trips while you sleep overnight would be a game-changer for weekend getaways. Imagine leaving your Chicago office after work on Friday and waking up in Denver to go skiing Saturday morning with all your gear, no rental car, and no airport hassle.
I'm interested in causing algae blooms near the equator with iron sulfide. Not for co2 capture, most of that would get released on decomposition, but for the albedo effect. It also has the failsafe that if it gets too cold the algae will die preventing a snowball earth. They did some tests for salmon production, and scaling that linearly for area covered it would be less than a $1.5 billion project. Also we get salmon.
I use the Compose file for this as well, in addition to configuring a “dead Greek” key for quick access to the Greek αλφαβετ. I even have a few phrases, such as my email address, in there: works everywhere, from my editor to text boxes on websites. There are no delays.
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It's a win. But-- if it's just driving freeway miles and lanekeeping and doing basic collision avoidance-- there's a lot of cars doing that and Tesla is in first place but not strongly differentiated from GM, etc. Other cars can provide you this "less fatiguing road trip" experience.

If you want it to actually drive and be able to remove your attention, well, something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClWlVCwHsI makes the present limits rather clear.
Yes. I know I'm personally extremely sensitive to VOC's in a way most other people aren't, so I don't doubt her medical symptoms at all.

But the fact that it's new construction, and that the readings peaked at 3am would lead me to expect it's high-VOC construction materials, and the VOC's are accumulating while people have their windows closed at night and/or the HVAC system circulates less. I also wonder if she by any chance purchased a new memory foam mattress and/or pillows when she moved -- some people (like me) are horribly affected by the VOC's in them, even after many months.

Building on a previous Superfund site could be an entirely separate and coincidental issue here.

My experience with VOC's has also taught me, don't stick around and try to fight it -- just leave ASAP!! (or toss your mattress no matter how much you paid for it). And the fact that her doctors never suggested VOC's could be the culprit seems astonishingly negligent to me. I'm so sorry she had to endure these symptoms for months and months without anyone suggesting, hey go stay at a friend's for a few nights and see if it gets better.
Same for me. If I spend the whole next day exhausted after sleep deprivation, my emotional state feels really fragile, my decision making is impaired, and everything just feels harder.
You must observe the competition and maybe he doesn't want his employees to be able to see what he is doing :-D
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What a useless screenshot. Sure if we believe him then he actually added Zuck's number into his address book and he got this notification from Signal. But if I want to doctor a screenshot like this, I can rename my non-Signal-using friend in my address book to "Zuck", and make my friend install Signal, and voila, "Zuck is now using Signal"...
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I could understand verifying domain names, but verifying IP addresses seems like it would be an extremely complex feature for very little benefit.

You'd have to have implement it in-line with the dns resolution in the server before talking to the origin, right? There's no other time you could reasonably do it (DNS changes), and it would have to be checked on all customers requests, not just the ones that opted into the feature (because those other customers could be the "attacker"!). Of course, you would cache it and use an efficient lookup scheme, but in general cloud services really don't like creating features that have non-localized effects like this.

Not to mention this sounds like a support nightmare foot gun for enterprise customers.
Pretty much. I'm less excited. Because I was super excited 50 years ago when we were at the bottom of the S-curve on computers and I had no idea they would eventually be commandeered to rip off my parents. I think of it as a "wider" view of the impacts vs a "narrow" view of the benefits.

For me, the nagging question is what happens when biotech has figured out biological systems to the point that everyone stops aging/dying[1]. Does that 10 billion people, give or take, become "the humans" for the rest of time?

[1] Lots of evidence that there is no "reason" for cell senescence, it's just an evolutionary afterthought (you succeeded in reproducing, now go die) and like other things can be "fixed."
> However recently, I've noticed that I now get a couple of junk text every day or two whereas up until a few weeks ago, I don't think I'd ever had a single junk text.

I think this is a symptom of living in the US. Been receiving robocalls and text messages all the time since I moved here.