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You want to be carrying topographic maps and a compass if you are hiking in the mountains.

You have to know how to use them.

GPS is great but cannot be relied on. Batteries die.
And also the other posts on esoteric.codes itself, covering esolangs and code art
I'm sure the overhead and upkeep of a robotics lab far outweighs that of a computer lab for software research.

Are there any Open* organizations for robotics that could perhaps fill the void here? I think robotics is really important and I think the software is a big deal also, but it's important that actual physical trials of these AIs are pursued. I would think that seeing something in real space like that offers an unparalleled insight for expert observers.

I remember the first time I ever orchestrated a DB failover routine, my boss took me into the server room when it was scheduled on the testing cluster. Hearing all the machines spin up and the hard drives start humming, that was a powerful and visceral moment for me and really crystallized what seemed like importance about my job.
I'm sorry, are you saying that a good idea should survive the loss of referential integrity or data consistency?

I don't feel that's what you mean, and it's probably my fault for misreading your comment.
Apache PredictionIO was designed for data scientists (I was a committer so am quite familiar with design decisions). It was built to allow new "engines" to be implemented for any arbitrary ML/AI algorithm. These came in "templates" of various flavors.

However it turned out that only the "Universal Recommender" template (that I wrote) had real demand and virtually no one was developing or using other "engines"

As designed it was hard to deploy and was not multi-tenant. I could go on about the shortcomings but suffice it to say that after I did the Universal Recommender and saw the PIO shortcomings, we (ActionML, my consulting company) decided to write a from-scratch ML server, called Harness, to solve the PIO issues and act as the host for continuing work on the Universal Recommender.

https://actionml.com/docs
https://github.com/actionml/harness

So the best part of PIO (The Universal Recommender) lives on with a clean new design and modern architecture.
The true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price
40 hours then home time. Zero interest in doing unpaid OT.
Greece was in a situation where it theoretically could do whatever it wanted, but practically most of the choices led to immediate chaotic bankruptcy and were even legally undefined. There was, for example, no legal way to reintroduce the drachma.

That is not a meaningful choice in my view. That is "standing with your back to a wall".
What will the Disneyland of the future look like?
There are videos of it (well from ground stations).
https://youtu.be/2H9gmXOjxlM

https://youtu.be/XoXtUkcFmG4
> it apparently only affects English-speaking diplomats in American and Canadian embassies

Wasn't that the premise of a video game series? A biological weapon that can be tuned to a specific language, so it affects only the speakers of the language? I cannot remember the name.
sgtnoodle said it well. I'll only add that if everybody thinks only of their own salary and not the company, you enter into a tragedy of the commons that kills the company (taken to the extreme).
A very good fiction book on this topic is
One Second After, by William Forstchen.
Thought provoking with pretty good science behind it.
it’s particularly destructive to anyone who starts out low wage. In other words, anyone who starts as the working poor.

I'm firmly of the belief that poverty is intersectional to the discrimination of women and non-white people in the USA.

The data bears this out. Salary data about these demographics suggest that women make about 60-80% of what a man is paid for similar work. People of color - particularly Black men - are in a similar position.

This is certainly not an issue solely confined to the working poor, either. It transcends class boundaries. It just happens to impact low income women and POCs more severely because it means they're batting from behind on two fronts instead of just one.
I find that area geologically fascinating. It's one of the few above-water rift zones in the world. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Trough the sediment fills it in as quickly as it sinks, so you have sediment in some areas going down 20,000 feet.

The earthquakes seem to come in swarms out there, which I think is a result of the pulling apart. In a thrust fault or strike-slip fault, you have a release of energy and while the stress is transferred somewhere else, that seems to be the end of the movement. When you pull two plates apart, you create a gap and the stuff above it sort of settles down into the gap, probably causing the successive earthquakes as it all settles into the new position.

I really wish we had a canal to the Salton Sea. Having a new inland port and a source of fresher water would dramatically change the area.
Wish you best of luck with reaching your goals.

Would be happy to hear a bit more about how you made the transition.
OP replied with their reason, but I personally have visited the Salton Sea numerous times when in southern California. I find it truly fascinating. It has a very post-apocolyptic feel. From an ecological perspective it occupies a very unique niche. It's 90 miles form the nearest ocean and has large populations of oceanic birds such as Brown Pelicans.
I was just thinking that. If we all read headlines for each time someone at the local Starbucks got sick, we'd avoid the coffee like the plague! There's a huge bias I think a lot of people don't account for, as well as the fact that quite a few diplomats are moving around all the time, they're ALL bound to get sick eventually. Rubbing shoulders with 100+ countries every week, it's basically inevitable.
so you would keep user input forever without any personalised prediction forever?
Although it would be highly inappropriate, the navy could easily retort, "Debating and passing legislation should be the principle purpose of a Senate."
12 Months, 850 Languages, 63 Fonts, No Waiting Or: Thank God for Google Noto
Just looking at it from what I think is a bigger picture perspective. I think it's worth considering of there is a point where there is TMI.
Funky, I hadn't even noticed I had switched back when I started thinking about Clojure and that it's not legal Elixir. I had to go check my Elixir code to find the _'s!
That's pretty much exactly how it works for some unlucky folks in "the greatest nation in the world" (so the propaganda tells me anyhow).
James II entertained the same delusions as Charles of being absolute monarch. He had a kinder fate, being carefully allowed to escape twice on his journey to France.
www.robots-everywhere.com we have a bunch of free stuff hereif it helps any
I don't think that's the point he was making. Moreso, that they "think" they have it, because they've heard of it. They may have real symptoms, but it could be false attribution or something else.
Super-antibodies’ could curb Covid-19 and help avert future pandemics
it will accelerate a huge amount of matter from the lunar surface into Moon's orbit as well as beyond the grips of the lunar gravity. It may make Moon's vicinity hard to navigate, and if set "correctly" that explosion would probably result in a lot of that matter hitting the Earth.
Fedora 34 and RHEL 8/clones Developer Workstation Setup Script
This is the “have you tried yoga” of labor discourse — shallow, unhelpful, and really dismissive, especially when factory workers are not given the choice to work additional hours, working conditions are challenging at best, and management seems (putting it charitably) negligent.
Historical reasons. For 40 years, the continent was split right in the middle. Back then, it was absolutely natural to speak about the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, possibly with neutral Austria and Switzerland as the weird exceptions.

Of course there are huge differences between, say, Czechia and Moldova, but we were part of a single allied bloc controlled by a single power for two generations, so there are some similarities as well. You can see some of them until today in architecture etc.
That's valid, but I think that operation makes it more of a hazard, however mild, if you leave it powered off when trying to mount the server.

More likely, it's confusing with the server getting mounted with the cover closed, then the person doing this forgets or doesn't understand that it's switched on by default and plugs it in, where it will be immediately powered.

Why not use a less confusing kind of switch, or leave it be with the toggle?
This guy recruits.

Talk to recruiters like you cultivate mushrooms.

Feed em shit, and keep em in the dark.
Yes, they are, and they always will be. I don't disagree that we shouldn't make things fairer, but i believe there's a limit at which of becomes a meaningless exercise.
Because this story is related to Vienna and your post fits ...

Let me tell you about the viennese hotdog stand owner who had three microwaves running at all time, to heat food quickly. Open. Behind his back.

There was a glass in between the customers and him, shielded, but the pressure of the microwaves (heat, i guess?) could be felt through the opening, where he hands out the food.

Of course it killed him eventually.
Agreed, this is extremely confusing and a pretty big design flaw. Google Maps pops up a warning if the business you are traveling to is closing soon, or if there are tolls. It should show a warning in these situations where the road ends far from the destination. The heuristics are less obvious, but I think you could catch most cases. You could even prompt to add another section to the trip in walking mode.
Hydrogen is a non starter because of the need for heavy tanks no?

Batteries are sealed contained
I read it the other way: if abandoning correctness is the only way to make your idea feasible, your idea kinda sucks.
They weren't forced to work though.

Conflating optional decisions with force is dangerous.

If they have better alternatives, they should do those. If they believe that by stopping work, they can get change from their employer, go for it. But nothing here is forced.
They released a Mac Pro, as configurable as you could desire, less than two years ago and have a replacement already in the works. They aren’t abandoning the market.
Content in encyclopedias is curated by a team of editors - I trust it about 1000x more than whatever nonsense Alexa says. It's mostly algorithmically generated by scouring the internet, without any kind of editing - it's trivial to find countless examples of Alexa(and Google home and Siri) providing completely nonsensical answers, because the question matched the snippet of the first article on some loony website. It's great if you catch it as a parent, but I know in many homes these devices are allowed completely without any supervision.
Yes, I agree. I'm providing another perspective that I think is missing, not arguing that we should always think this way. It's healthiest to consider multiple viewpoints.
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check the leak in darknet : http://662m7dfcpfsmeetqucdekz3rn4a6dxsxbdjwd6iz3rwnogjsj7i3hxad.onion/aramco
Or that it's a secret weapon used on US diplomats by [insert foreign power].

Or that it's a result of radiation given off by some cryptogear that's classified.

Or that it's a result of a global phenomenon and is only being detected in Vienna because they were alert to it after noticing it in Havana.

Or that it's a contagious but slow acting disease spreading through the US diplomatic corps from some Typhoid Mary as they get redeployed.
This is an amazingly fast progress, can't wait to try it on my Unmatched board... and the port is more or less still the work of one or two persons IIRC.
I think the premise of your question actually points to the real problem. In RL, b/c your current policy and actions determine what data you see next, you can't really just "scale existing algorithms" in the sense of shoving more of the same data through them on more powerful processors. There's a sequential process of acting/observing/learning which is bottlenecked on your ability to act in your environment (ie through your robot). Off-policy learning exists, but scaling up the amount of data you process from a bad initial policy doesn't really lead anywhere good.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0465023282

Solid author, genuine attempt objective history, the causes, the justifications, the sins, the benefits.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the new stories exist because of the attacks. If they didn't do the attack... there wouldn't be any news stories, would there?
Was looking for stories in the paper from the day after. Couldn't find any but found one a few months later in a 1963 story in the Hilo Tribute-Herald about it: https://staradvertiser.newspapers.com/clip/66389435/starfish...
"it would be pretty easy to create a sovereign currency pegged to the euro 1:1 by the countries central bank"

How will you protect the peg? If moving off the euro is taken as a sign of your weakness, defending the peg against the market shorting you will bleed your central bank dry.
Honestly I wouldn't be using Elixir if it wasn't for my co-founder's singing the praises of Phoenix & Liveview. I'd tried it once about a year ago but couldn't see any advantage over Clojure (esp. with re-frame). Sadly he was never going to move to Clojure.

That said, now I've dug in and really used it for solving some problems I am finding it an elegant and enjoyable experience.

I'd happily use either although I think Elixir has a particular fit to web applications.
That's certainly fair but, probably because I often hike in winter, I really don't want to potentially end up in a situation where I have a serious issue if my phone fails. Though they're pretty reliable, phones just have failure modes that physical maps don't.

I don't worry about it in casual situations especially when there are other people around. Shoot a photo of the map at the parking area for a casual hike? Sure. But I like having backups when I can.
Finding out that your loving wife cheated on you early in your relationship after 40 years of marriage. Learning that people don't care about you as much you think they do. Knowing exactly how you will die.
It’s not rude I don’t mind, I started at about 115kg, and I’m about 105 now, in about a month.

I will also add a wee disclaimer: I’m also exercising a lot too, I walk 7km every second day, so no doubt that’s contributing.

I’m happy with the weight loss, but really the mental clarity that comes with IF has made me a much better programmer, I’m 36 now, and I feel like I have the energy and mental clarity like I was 18 again. Even if IF didn’t give me the weight loss, I would do it for the mental clarity alone.

Yeah I totally get that IF isn’t for everyone, I have been overweight my entire life, since very early childhood and I tried many different things, the smaller meals, cutting out carbs, vegan, no sugar, and they all worked to some degree, but the weight and bad habits always came back.

IF has been so positive for me, I just thought I’d share my story for others who may want to try it,

It sounds like you eventually settled on a method that works for you, so that’s great! Human bodies and society is so complex, I have no doubt different methods will work for different people…
This was FINALLY undone in 2.2.28!

* scdaemon: New option --pcsc-shared. [5eec40f3d827]

It was one of the most exciting change log entries I've come across in ages.

Now able to open Firefox AND an entry in my password store simultaneously.
I think the entire comment was facetious.
> are huge moneymakers as a ticket to working in the US.

Beyond that, the international Masters students are really subsidizing the education of other students. Every time there is some friction added to the student visa process, all but the top schools with huge endowment funds feel the financial pressure.

Most narratives I read about this situation paints the picture of the students buying their way into US residency via Masters program. But it works the other way too - many US citizens are able to get educated at an affordable price because of the money these Masters students bring in to the school.
> and all blameless post mortems do is act as an excuse to avoid raising the bar

"Well, there's your problem, right there."

The entire point of doing blameless post-mortems is to correctly identify problems for resolution. If management doesn't drive changes in response (process, training, communication, whatever), you have a different problem to solve before they'll do any good.
This is the central theme of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Because "just rewrite your program in C to avoid GC pauses" is such a flawed argument when it comes to any production system that it isn't even worth discussing.

The reality is there are limited resources to work on any given project and "rewrite" is generally not the correct way to fix a given problem.

Especially since the first thing you are going to need to do is show that a network system isn't resilient to GC pauses or that GC pauses are frequent enough to impact throughput (very very few applications are actually materially impacted by sub second spikes in latency).
Brilliant, thank you.

I assumed that, with Elixir macro support, someone could implement protocols with full pattern matching. Just way above my current pay grade!
I am a researcher on the AI/Systems side and I wanted to chime in. Transformers are amazing for language, and have broken all the SOTA is many areas (at the start of the year, some people may have wondered if CNNs are dead [they are not as I see it]). The issue with Transformer models is the insane amount of data they need. There is some amazing progress on using unsupervised methods to help, but that just saves you on data costs. You still need an insane about of GPU horsepower to train these things. I think this will be a bottleneck to progress. The average university researcher (unless from tier 1 school with large funding/donors) are going to pretty much get locked out. That basically leaves the 5-6 key corporate labs to take things forward on the transformer front.

RL, which I think this particular story is about, is an odd-duck. I have papers on this and I personally have mixed feelings. I am a very applications/solutions-oriented researcher and I am a bit skeptical about how pragmatic the state of the field is (e.g. reward function specification). The argument made by the OpenAI founder on RL not being amenable to taking advantage of large datasets is a pretty valid point.

Finally, you raise interesting points on running multiple complex DNNs. Have you tried hooking things to ROS and using that as a scaffolding (I'm not a robotics guy .. just dabble in that as a hobby so curious what the solutions are). Google has something called MediaPipe, which is intriguing but maybe not what you need. I've seen some NVIDIA frameworks but they basically do pub-sub in a sub-optimal way. Curious what your thoughts are on what makes existing solutions insufficient (I feel they are too!)
Thermal imaging wouldn't detect microwaves. They are at very different parts of the spectrum.
I agree that setting up a project can be challenging. Luminus at least makes things easier by generating the project boilerplate you need to get started.
There was no "India" before the British colonizers. So lets start from there.
I mean I'm Polish, and perhaps wrongly, but I have never thought about myself as Eastern European - for me that means Belarussians, Ukrainians, Romanians......for me "central European" is completely the right term for Poland, Slovakia and Czechia, but I understand it might not be the commonly accepted view.
Why people “decide” to do this sort of work? Oh, I don’t know, probably the same reasons people “decide” to be poor.
It doesn't recognize any Chinese character for me, maybe not trained with a font containing those characters?
Dancing with Robots
In addition to the many insightful replies here add: Once you have a working class addicted to some combination of fast food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, pot, opioids, and other drugs which cost money, they have a reduced capability to dig themselves out of a hole.
I really hope so :-)
The EU has always made substantial transfers from richer to poorer countries (though its budget is only about 1% of GDP.) Being in the EU has been pretty good for the Eastern European countries that joined, both purely financially and in securing their democracies, just as it was for Spain and Portugal which have made substantial progress in catching up with the likes of France and Italy since they joined in 1986.

Sadly the same can't be said for the single currency - which many Eastern European countries haven't yet joined. Greece is perhaps the main counterexample in that its GDP per capita is no higher compared to France than it was when it joined (its GDP dropped by a huge amount since the 2008 crisis.)

Imagine if something similar would have been possible in the Americas.
dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)
The Universal Recommender (part of the Harness project) allows contextual and multimodal behavioral information to be used in recs. https://github.com/actionml/harness
isn't it possible for this to happen in the opposite direction? I.e., turning a pay cut into a small raise.

It is, but that's only something that can happen when you allow the company to make the first offer.

If they do, and they undershoot your current comp, it likely means that:

* they have no idea how to price your skills against the market rate,

* they are strapped for cash, and trying to get you at a bargain price, or

* they are simply trying to lowball you and see what you do.

You can counter by saying something to the effect of "Thanks, but that represents a pay cut for me, and that doesn't make financial sense for me right now." An honest mistake will result in them hustling to redo the offer to your liking. I don't know thst I've ever seen an honest mistake of this kind from a recruiter. They simply have too much data for me to believe that.

None of these scenarios are a great look for a company that wants to recruit you. Seeing these from a company offering me a job leaves me pretty hesitant to work for them. To me, it telegraphs either amateurism, or bad faith negotiations.

The one exception to this - and, I gotta say, this tradeoff has never made financial sense to me, personally - is to take a pay cut to work at a startup. At that point, you're swapping pay for the opportunity to learn or advance your career in some other way.
I think part of the possible confusion is that "cutesy" curved line from the parking area to the peak. It shouldn't draw anything between where the actual directions end and the map pin, just show the pin.

All that being said, changing the directions so it ends up at the visitor center is probably a good choice, regardless of how few people actually were or would be confused.
Turning a mental health emergency into a public spectacle for entertainment is so utterly American and corrupt. It sickens me. There is nothing heartwarming about profiting from the misery of others.
Pretty sure that is entirely an urban legend.
Difficult how? Proper topo maps have a standard format and are easy to read.

The harder part is figuring out where you are on the map, and what route to take.