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> USB-PD supports 5, 9, 15 or 20v at between 0 - 5 amps. Higher power typically needs a thicker gauge wire.

Every voltage below 20 maxes out at 3 amps. As far as cables go, 60 is the minimum watts supported.

> There are definitely "charge-only" cables being marketed.

Are they valid though?

> Two markings with each having multiple variations. You will have a dozen plus combinations, that will only get more complex.

I don't really care how many combos there are. I won't need most of them. Most of the time I just want speed or power, sometimes I want both, and it's always a minimum requirement rather than anything specific.
Downvotes are more disturbing than upvotes are rewarding. I suppose this is related to the psychology of happiness, e.g. Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness”?

It might be good to make a downvote = -.5 and an upvote = +1 to even out the effect?

Just a thought...
Yeah but the facts make racially discriminatory admissions policies harder to implement
Now I know how the people who got in early on real estate in SF or Seattle feel.
At Routable we use this to power a significant portion of our dynamic UI (super complex forms with interwoven dependencies, etc). Super cool and useful library with a surprisingly low number of gotchas for what it's doing.

We did a little write-up about our experience with it here if anybody is interested:

https://blog.routable.com/tablematic-a-tale-of-server-driven...
> meaning if you don’t have a Tesla you either simply can’t make trips beyond a single-charge round-trips

You’re overestimating how many people make road trips > 200 miles.

Most Americans never leave their hometown, with an even higher percentage who never left their state.

For the middle class family who drives to visit grandma once a year in a different state, they’ll just use their ICE car.
Agreed. Good question. Regarding our current approach, my hope is that someday our alpha goes away entirely and we can publish our strategy in detail. But going forward, the plan is to have a trading division that keeps research secret, and a fundamental AI research division (unrelated to trading) that publishes publicly.
Only in how to format the inputs, not the processing capability.
Prior to FHIR, there was actually an XML-based HL7 v3 as well. Mercifully, it collapsed under the weight of its own spec and rarely shows up in the wild these days. CDA still survives, but it's much easier to work with and being slowly made obsolete by FHIR resources.
I'll trust "auto pilot" the day when legal responsibility is shifted to the manufacturer.

Honestly, a fully autonomous driving car is a pipe dream (KITT I need ya buddy!!!), but with infrastructure and remote support I think it's totally possible. The question is whether there's a will for that.
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Amazon accused of abuse of dominant position in the United States
Americans tend to want very large homes by global standards and lumber is (or at least was) cheaper.
The one sample page it shows is: "When you grow up, your parents may reject your sexuality".

I don't think this is actually a book for little kids.
That sounds unlikely.
I'm far more willing to accept a BIASED TEST than I am someone being more or less smart based on race.
Palo alto is not typical of America. Its one of the richest places in the country for one along with having a high percentage of liberal/educated people.

IN America you have to be upper middle class at minimum to have the same standard of living as the bottom tier in Scandinavian countries.
Mistakes happen. I've never met an engineer who has never made a mistake. However, I have met brilliant engineers who have written incredibly complex software and have also managed to make some silly mistakes along the way.
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How Jeffrey Epstein helped Bill Gates fund UN-affiliated think tank projects
The feature which seems to be freaking people out is sound-alike searching based on patient name. This isn't a new feature at all; it's been specified as an optional feature in the DICOM standard for literally decades.
As a Canadian - awesome! (Given that I understand the consequences correctly, that is.)

The incredible demand, coupled with supply chain troubles, has driven up the price of lumber here nearly 300% A 8' 2x4 was $2.95 this time last year, today it's $10.

I hope this cools the exports of lumber from Canada, and we see the prices move back towards a sane level.
It's more expensive and has a terrible environmental impact. Forestry at least can be sustainable if done right
I've been following the situation via a few Youtube folks with non-Tesla charging, and I think your description is a bit exaggerated for the US, but not entirely.

It seems like many routes (not all though) along interstates have enough Electrify America fast chargers that the mere existence is adequate. However, the charging experience is very buggy and unreliable. Cars randomly refuse to charge, charge much slower than they should, etc. And it's not rare, it's likely that this will happen multiple times on a trip, from what I've seen. The videos posted were with the Mach-E and ID.4, so very recent cars.

However, I think as long as these cars sell (and the F-150 lightning does too), this will all get better very quickly. Most of it looks like it should be fixable with software updates, and these companies are all doing OTA updates now.
What are the consequences?
> In the case of Gates he has been widely criticized by people like Vandana Shiva for his agricultural ambitions pushing chemical intensive agriculture all over the developing world, which Shiva says will have massive negative environmental effects.

The alternative being more labor intensive agriculture (so requiring more people) and less buffer in case of a bad harvest (so potential famine and instability).

> Gates also pushes in I believe the WTO for stronger intellectual property restrictions, which has a side effect of more products in the landfill as they are harder to repair.

The alternative is a slowdown in research and development since now the research you paid millions for in payroll and time can now be copied by your competitor with one or two engineers.
I spent 1 year learning about AI/ML with books and moocs. Then 1 year building a prototype. Then 1 year + 2 months as a team.
Many large applications have pushed back on the model. Microservices tend to solve problems of scaling teams, not scaling users.
> their CO2 usage must be astronomical

Why? Does money produce CO2?

> which Shiva says

Never heard of Shiva.

> chemical intensive agriculture

About half the planet will die without chemical fertilizers.

> I believe

I need better than that.

> Besos has

Amazon (not Bezos' wealth) has displaced a number of other companies that provided goods to consumers. I haven't seen any evidence that Amazon produces, on the net, more CO2 than them. It arguably produces less, because it replaces innumerable car trips to the mall with one truck that drives far fewer miles per delivery.

> by virtue of the power they have

Doesn't remotely compare to the power government wields and accretes daily. Bill Gates has zero power over my life.
What's linked is an article (another from NPR) quoting a college official as claiming that, which, it's true, isn't research. However, the linked article itself links to the particular piece of research that both articles are referring to, which contains:

"Furthermore, our data indicated that high school GPA had a stronger correlation with college success for Non- Submitters than the ACT/SAT (for the 27% of Non-Submitters for whom we had test scores) -- both in terms of college cumulative GPA and graduation rate. While test scores had a generally stronger relationship with college GPAs for the Submitters, for the Non-Submitters they tended to show a weaker relationship, essentially under- predicting the college GPA. The test scores continued to most strongly correlate with family income."

So they may be right or may be wrong, and the research may be good or it may be crap, but NPR does not appear to be misrepresenting its own sources.
That's really frustrating because it ought to be "Eat less beef and more vegetables, which is what your doctor was telling you anyway."

It's not that hard. It doesn't have to be absolute: eat beef 2 meals a week rather than 8-10 and you're saving a lot of CO2.

It's not just that people don't sacrifice real value. They often don't want to make even the smallest choices. They just look past the vegetarian options each and every single time they sit down at a restaurant.

Presenting it as "veganism and crickets or no alternative" is just a way of deflecting. (Besides, vegans don't eat crickets.)
What is the advantage of this being JSON? Couldn't the language be more "terse, consistent, secure, and flexible" if it wasn't JSON, with the possible advantage of parsing faster and being friendlier to write?

The website lists the ability to easily send it "between front-end and back-end code, and even store it in a database", is there an advantage to it being JSON for any of these goals?
SAT and ACT scores are, on a macro level, a measure of social status and parent's wealth.
Yeah, I don’t think Colorado has that many selective colleges to begin with.
Sheathing plywood and OSB are now basically as expensive as cabinet grade hardwood plywood. It's insane.
Did Jordan’s closest allies plot to unseat its king?
Is any remotely "fair" public college admissions system even possible? Race-based quotas are discriminatory. SAT scores are discriminatory. Legacy admissions are discriminatory. Extracurriculars are discriminatory. Judging based on school/school district performance is discriminatory. I say just start picking names out of a hat and be done with it.
If this actually works to shore up the domestic end-to-end supply chain for lumber and lumber products so that we don't have to rely on growing and harvesting trees here, sending them across the world for processing, just to ship them back as plywood and other wood products then great!

Based on what products this is targeting and the current domestic labor situation here it appears that this will absolutely not be the case.
I was the (gov) department tech assigned on a state wide upgrade/merge project bringing a bunch of Novell servers into a new eDirectory tree. The server migration was mostly the responsibility of external sub-contractors, I dealt with migrating all the other on site equipment, a bunch of related prep work etc.

Anyway at a smaller site the two guys are doing their bit. I have a staging server i lug around from campus to campus so I’d usually migrate the classroom and office equipment without needing to talk to them much until we take a break or I’m finished.

This was a tiny campus, i finished really quickly, and went to see how they’re doing.

Turns out they’d managed to skip an important step in the “bible” procedure they normally follow, not changed the netware install type to “custom” and it had wiped all the disks in the server.

I spent the rest of the day with my boss (who happened to come up to the town for the weekend) and her family, riding their JetSki etc while the two contractors restored all the data volumes from LTO backups and then started the whole migration over again.
Not right now, I've only taken the computer architecture and operating systems courses. I hope to do CSI in the future.
I can see using this for writing validators that can be written once, then ran on the api and frontend. I'm struggling to think of another use.
> It would seem reasonable to me that if we are offering food aid, that we also require all recipients to undertake long-term contraception.

"We can save your family from starving, but you have to agree to enroll in our long-term contraception program first."

That's what is sounds like to me, at least.
Note: Despite Betteridge’s Law, it seems the answer here is actually yes.
> OTH nobody would use medicine daily and call that a natural state of being

It's amazing how casually we throw around these "observations" which completely and conveniently memory hole our indigenous friends and neighbors, whose traditions of plant medicine nearly universally include routine relationships with plant medicines in sickness and in health.
I'm saying you're going to be fighting against a strategy that has been used since the dawn of Homo Sapiens to counter high childhood mortality rates. It is an uphill battle, especially in a country without a stable government.
One reason I sold my P3D was after watching Tesla hose Model S owners I couldn't shake the idea that it was just a matter of time before they decided to take something I care about.

It did not help that I started getting phantom braking at overpasses with some regularity, and the auto wipers were just not ever getting any better.

I've decided I like the old style of car manufacturing better. Turns out I want an appliance, not an experiment.
YES — you're nailing something that I've felt but haven't been able to articulate.

The worst children's books are ones that don't roll off the tongue, that use too-complicated phraseology, that through circumlocution challenge the rea—well, you get it. They trip me up!
I know this is beside the main point of the article - but the fact that the CEO's surname is Frame is one of these truth is stranger than fiction moments. If you wrote up a drama about someone writing an app like this and gave the CEO that surname you'd be called a hack.
> Most Americans never leave their hometown

This can't possibly be right. Maybe they never move away, but never leave a radius of 200 miles from their home town? Do you have a cite for that?
Sometimes moving an inner for loop to a separate function (that will likely be inlined) is better to explicitly show its inputs and outputs.
> Change the word "men" to "women" in that sentence to see how patently absurd that claim is. Women have unique needs that men do not, and organizations that help them navigate unique challenges

I think you're getting the idea that I don't want groups for men. "For good reason" is probably quite nebulous, so I'll go fix that. Thanks for pointing it out.
> In Slack messages viewed by Motherboard, Frame calls ProtectOS, the system Citizen uses to create incidents and push them out to users, "the most powerful operating system ever created."

Sounds like the fictional CTOS from the Watch_Dogs games.
> Since then, I’ve realised it’s been tried and is being tried an inordinate number of times and seems to usually fail for some reason or another.

That describes the state of things before every innovation in history.
Amazon's policy is if you sell cheaper elsewhere then they won't market you on Amazon (but you can still sell through their store with your own marketing).

I like this because for a while there were weird situations where stuff was $250 that should really be $50.

Was there some gimmick / trick where people just trusting amazon are basically tricked into buying stuff that was wildly overpriced?

If you were not careful, you could pay 2x - 3x more than standard price. Paying a bit more was reasonable I thought for amazon's ability to deliver, but the 2x - 3x pricing was crazy.

If Washington wins this can Amazon then just turn off this policy in Washington and let them see / pay for these much higher priced items sold cheaper elsewhere. Short run might be profitable for amazon as they get to take their cut out of larger sale prices.
>nature is mostly self-regulating

The problem with this is that the nature can stay hostile for much longer than humans can stay alive. We literally built a civilisation on top of the corpses of creatures that survived much longer than we ever walked on the earth upright.

I am sure that in some very distant feature the archaeologist and biologist of some species will have a boon on our remains, I don't really doubt that, but the problem is that we are facing huge opportunity for de dinosaur experience.
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Effectively this is going to require massive and coordinated action. We are going to have to rapidly develop and share the tech, and scale it quickly.

It is also insane how long humanity has ignored this issue. At least we have seemingly moved from ‘12 years left for real action? Hah!’ To ‘Oh shit this is happening and maybe we have that 11 years’
I’m done if you’re playing the victim card lol. Bye
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They show both correlation with income, and success in college.

The correlation with income and test results is quite possibly conflated with preparedness, since money provides more opportunities to succeed in school.

Still isn't that the same thing? Folks who didn't have pre-college study opportunities might test less well. It doesn't mean they can't succeed in college. That's the point I think; we have to stop weighing environmental factors so highly, since they skew admissions toward wealthy applicants. Which is widely perceived as unfair.
My claim:

> they’re using lidar to develop FSD.

Your comment:

> they’re just using LiDAR rigs to validate data from their vision based approach

In 2019, Elon called lidar a crutch:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/anyone-relying-on-lidar-is...
I don't think we are blaming the apps. The point is that I don't want to be addicted. The solution is not "just be stronger".
Is that Illumos or SmartOS or are those considered interchangeable these days?
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Mapbox's API has something similar, except they use the first element in an array for the operator instead of an object key: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/style-spec/expressions/

Some will recognize that these are basically just Lisp s-expressions (as JsonLogic also seems to pretty much be)

"Code as data" indeed
Considering almost every programm out there has a bug or chronically experiences bugs, it is crazy to trust a programm with driving you car.
Fsd without dedicated lanes and pedestrians will never match an able and alert human.
Even if it's designed by a far in the future AI, the AI will be built by humans and inherit the flaws.

Why do people even see self driving as the ultimate transport solution? It does not scale, even if vehicles are shared.
How's that exactly? I studied in school, took the tests, and received a score. I didn't have SAT tutors. I took the PSAT, and I sort of remember some practice workbooks. How did my receiving decent scores on those tests indicate my social status or parent's wealth?
This is a great narrative, until we remember that lumber is a tiny fraction of the price of a house.
[ Note: I'm a complete layperson in the AI field, so feel free to correct me. This is mostly based on my penchant for reading topics such as evolutionary biology, Hofstadter, and such. ]

If we used genetic algorithms to design the algorithm, it'd probably be able to get something as efficient as that. However, you're also not going to be able to "fix this one thing" because it's more likely to be the result of emergent behavior from interactions more complicated than anyone can understand. I believe one could get something that works like that, but you're also going to have other behaviors akin to moths flying into lamps because they navigate by the moon which is recognized as "the brightest thing at night".

We think we can make rules for everything and expect them to be followed without exception to perform these complicated tasks, but I think that's hubris. Anything that ends up doing it at that power scale is going to be as inscrutable as a brain. Asimov's robopsychology is then likely to be something real, but it's going to be dissecting neural networks because "fix this issue" on something that took multiple GW of energy to train in the first place will need fixing from that end versus "well, time to train it again".

As an anecdote for this thread, I remember there was some setup where physical circuits were designed via genetic algorithms to do some task. There were results with unconnected resistors that actually influenced the behavior of the circuit. You're generating behavior which is sensitive to that level. Wish I could find that again…
$50bn looks (eyeballing it) like less than the area under the graph labelled “moderate”.

You and I both agree fusion isn’t likely to be the solution to global warming, but I do think it could be if people wanted it to be. (I also think nobody with the money to spend really cares that much about fusion, and that PV is so absurdly cheap this is unlikely to change).
If we understand something, we can describe it with an algorithm.

If algorithms for intelligence are by definition impossible, then understanding intelligence is by definition impossible.

So if true intelligence is something beyond our current understanding of the world (beyond algorithmic description). To me, this feels like god in the gaps applied to intelligence.
if the commit name is more readily at hand, just name the commit "fixup! whatever". --fixup just does this for you since references are shorter and easier to type (it doesn't have to be a hash, it can be --fixup HEAD~2 or something).
It took over two years and they stopped to plant crops according to the story. Add in hunting and foraging, the logistics don't seem difficult.
Environmental concerns are one reason. Concrete is more environmentally intensive than lumber, and the construction industry already accounts for a significant portion (about 10%) of global GHG emissions. We should be moving away from using concrete when more sustainable alternatives exist.
Yes, that's the plan. Ever notice that it's always upper middle class people bitching about the SAT's? That's because they're too poor for legacy / donor advantage, and they can't stand that poor people would have a fair shot through a standardized test.
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You're literally asking humans to create life. This is strictly the Creator's domain.
It varies between regions, but in general, building with wood is significantly faster and less expensive than using concrete. They are also easier to remodel, extend, and ultimately demolish, but these are secondary reasons.

Some areas, such as regions of Florida or Arizona for example, have substantial historical housing stock made from concrete. However, the majority of new construction is wood for the reasons stated above.

There are not (to my knowledge) any building codes that prohibit concrete construction for residential.
This one line about hubris enters my thoughts unprovoked, an internal reproach, on occasion:

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He saw a puddle and he tried to swerve--

Into the mud rolled the big fat truck,

and his big important wheels got STUCK
I have had experiences (plural) like this in my Model 3 too.

I will never buy Tesla again. I don’t think Tesla realizes how much goodwill they are destroying.

For example, /r/TeslaMotors is fairly critical of the company these days where it used to be cultish and fanatical.
I'm surprised more folks haven't made the connection that the chip shortage is causing drastic changes to manufacturing like this. Some new trucks have gotten rid of their navigation systems, backup cameras, etc. because they can't source the chips: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/chip-shor... Things are getting somewhat dire for manufacturing.
He uses both g_second and g_seconds without a compile error. Maybe the system defines both?