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Modeling a tractor in CAD isn't the issue. Manufacturing it is.

A 25 year old tractor design (probably out to 75+ year old tractors even) still has hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure and tooling behind it. Molds or dies for a single part can easily reach into 6 figures, without taking into account the $10 million injection molding machine.

The simplifications you could do would be limited, as every design decision affects the placement and access to a dozen other parts.

Take a part like this, which is for a Deere 750 (small tractor) released in 1989: https://www.compactractorparts.com/tractor-parts/john-deere/...

I could model that in CAD in under an hour. Lining up manufacturing is a minimum 12 month process with preexisting relationships, and would take upwards of $250k to get in the door. This also doesn't take into account the "societal collapse" angle - post-apocalypse there's no way to make that yourself, and manufacturers in China would presumably no longer be an option.
Not sure, but we definitely made extensive use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers when I was growing up. Of course, to your point, that doesn’t mean that kind of exposure is safe.
Installing software on MacOS is only convenient when it is distributed as self-contained .app bundle. Only self-contained GUI apps are distributed this way. Managing software that comes in ".pkg" files is strictly worse than using Linux packages. Unlike on Linux, there is no dependency tracking or interface for un-installing such software.
High school history was awful for me as well. But a new course on ethnic studies doesn't have to fall prey to the same issues that have plagued US history education. Namely, who is defining the curriculum, what biases are they including (intentionally or not), how are educators trained to approach and teach the subject. If our education system hadn't failed so hard in these considerations for US history, it's arguable that a separate ethnic studies curriculum wouldn't be (as) necessary. Here's to hoping we can learn from our mistakes.
Let's suppose the story was reversed. It was Steve Jobs who tried to deceive someone, and the negotiator on the other side detected it and called bullshit on it. Would you be arguing that Steve should have been given the benefit of the doubt and it wasn't a big deal?
This story again?

I once interviewed a smart guy from a certain UC across the bay. Still undergrad, he played a lot with Python and wished he could have something similar to pip when doing C/C++.

So he wrote himself a "package manager" that could fetch binaries, place header files correctly and add them to his build. Neat little project.

That's basically what this guy did. It reads a YAML file and exec() whatever build instruction is in there. The CS102 guy I hired could do it as well.

Keivan was brought in by Microsoft for an interview and he didn't get the job. He kept talking about how "he could have patented this" or how it was an "acquihire" but there's nothing new to acquire in there! I mean it's not like he invented package management (NuGet, Chocolatey, Scoop all predate his attempt).

But hey, he flunked his interview and got a lot of eyes on his startup thanks to some well placed clickbait on HN...
Amazon offering teams more flexibility as we return to office
There is still a 21H2 update for Windows 10. (It's a strange confusion that seems like it should have been avoidable that 10 and 11 will both have [different] 21H2 versions.)

Also, winget is slowly getting installed automatically on Windows 10 (all the way back to the Anniversary Update if machines are still running 1607 for some reason but also still getting Microsoft/Windows Store updates, to my understanding).
Beijing megablock with 30k residents and vibrant commercial / social activities on ground floor is a nice taste of new urbanism. That said, dancing grannies with boom boxes blasting until 10pm on a school night is what noise regulations are for. And at least in my old compound, security had a very hard enforcing it. Hopefully this is an addressible problem for headphone companies when wireless broadcast technologies advances.
The reason why I put economists in quoatation mark it's precisely because most modern economists, that lean to any school, hammer their models to fit their theories, and have pretty much no practical value when you try to apply that in a real scenario with infinite variables.
Unlike the hard sciences you mentioned, where every theory and model is subjected to intense scrutiny.

Meanwhile, real economists, with a proven track record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_(economics)
I’ve been using Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu servers for the past 20 years and only once I painted myself in a corner with an EPEL RH repo and, even then, I admit it was totally my fault.

I have configured manually dozens of servers, and automatically many thousands, with no significant issues. Only when you fight the distro, you’ll end up caught in an edge case. These things are tested automatically 24x7.
> These included Jewish and pro-Israel advocates, who asserted that the original draft of the model curriculum was anti-Israel and defined Islamophobia but not antisemitism.

> The final version deletes the lessons and references that offended some Jewish groups.

Does anyone know what those lessons and references were? The article doesn't say.
> In California, 70% of students are students of color. They go through 12 years of an education — taking everything from mathematics to biology — and yet it’s taken 53 years to get a single course in something that is relevant to their own personal historical trajectory.

They included Asians in that figure. I wonder how they will explain college admission here, "We can see that Asians were discriminated heavily against historically in USA, but things changed so now we too must discriminate against Asians or they will dominate our colleges!".

The discrimination in admissions is bad enough, but now they will force every Asian kid to sit and listen why it is good that the state discriminates against them even though history didn't favor them.
Like many things, it has a legitimate use that is in reality not the primary use. Sort of like bittorrent.

I think the reality of it is that intangibles like privacy are difficult to measure and justify paying for.

And yea, i am guilty of it too.
Is there something equivalent to a small robot? An open source platform for an all terrain outdoor robotic platform would be pretty useful as well
Wonder how much compute it would cost to train this thing, if you weren't Nvidia..
> exercise every day. sweat is a good indication

No it isn't. It's very person and weather dependent.
This bugs the crap out of me, it sounds like "waaaahhh I can't rake in ad money being a provocateur". So deal with it. Get a day job. Accept that large chunks of society will hate you (that's the goal anyway, right?) and that your business won't be welcome.
Your anti-MBA, anti-profit-maximization rant misses one thing: Southwest is the only major US airline with zero bag fees (for the first 2), no business or first-class cabin, no seat upgrade charges, and until recently, the only one with no change fees (other airlines backed off change fees during the current pandemic). It doesn't chase major international routes, partner with 3rd party booking engines, or fly overnight/redeyes. LUV has consistently, for 40+ years, optimized its culture over profits.
> There's just no advantage to having shared libraries outside of ensuring that you'll eventually break every application

If an application or service is using a vulnerable outdated library, I WANT it to break. It’s better to have it broken than have it expose sensitive user data.
But that it votes on something is significant and often leads to implementation of something similar eventually. And since you know that it does not mean implementation and I know this then we both should assume many or enough people know this.
Are the people likely to use this already working unprotected around pesticides? If so, what difference would it make that they’re now sitting in a tractor? If not, why would having a tractor cause then to start? Or is your guess that they’re swapping from a tractor with protection?
I would like to see some treatment of the history of subsuming many diverse cultures under a single near-homogenous "white" identity. There's so much history, art, and culture there. It's not just white-washed-by-time Roman buildings.
Can you cite any study that shows that educational outcomes are positively correlated with spending even after adjusting for disabilities?
Thank you everybody [Google account of Armoured Archives unlocked]
Thank you for the feedback. You are right that the project is not open source right now. It's "only" MIT licensed. That's why I also don't advertise it as open source (if you see the word open source somewhere it would be a mistake on my end, feel free to tell me if you see it somewhere). I wanted to start out from just an API contract so that it is easier to manage and get started. In general I have no problem open sourcing the JS part. But first there is some refactoring to do so it is easier to maintain upon open sourcing. Stay tuned!

As a side note: The wasm files are actually from the inference engine (tfjs).

Please let me know if you have any more questions in that regard.
Answering the sibling post that is now dead:

Considering the option I went for is buying a proper product with proper warranty, operates 100x better and whose manufacturer spent WAY more R&D than all those shitty small apps, I fail to see how I am the entitled one.

Also, my current tuner is Polyphonic (TC Polytune). I bet a couple of the 30 or so apps I saw might be too, but how the fuck should I know? There's nothing in descriptions. I'd rather spent the time getting some proper device than cruising trough shitty products that want to show me ads.

Also, my Polytune doesn't charge me extra for tuning a Ukulele. Unlike some of the apps in the store.

The only "entitled" people here are those SaaSholes flooding the market with copycat shitty apps.
This is a valuable take. Fastai was very frustrating for me because I wanted to understand the internals. I ended up not finishing it, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
It's not just about patents - it's about easy, cheap building with limited access to tools and materials.
As mentioned in a sister thread, europa.eu uses the browser's DNT header (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...) to see if they should bother asking for tracking.

Browser vendors tried to establish such a standard but it pretty much died when Microsoft enabled it by default for IE9 and some ad brokers began to claim that they can now ignore DNT because it doesn't actually reflect user intent anymore. (see https://www.theregister.com/2015/04/03/microsoft_reverses_ie...)

With that it became deprecated. Thank you, Microsoft and Yahoo.
> As should have been predictable by intelligent legislators, which the EU generally are.

this is certainaly debatable

in every subject I'm a... subject matter expert in: it's been pretty bad
> How do you measure how much it works?

There is a set, yearly decreasing amount of emission rights in circulation so it's fairly well quantified.

You can argue that the set rate is too lax, but the current rates are quite steep and it seems obvious that it's having an effect.
Following up from this highly upvoted story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621412

"Dave" a Google Community Manager unlocked the account. This was in the same thread previously linked to:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has...

This is a video thanks from the account manager for community support in getting the visibility needed for Google to rescue the account.
> Was the affiliation links inserted in the browser opt-in

I believe it was a mistake that it wasn't, and it was quickly made opt-in.

I think it's more scummy that Mozilla makes money from having Google as the default search engine, a still active campaign.

> Was the unethical business model to show custom ads in place of existing ones an accident?

As far as I know that's a lie, did they ever replace ads with blocked ads? Brave ads are text notifications, not banner ads.

> Or the crappy marketing campaign to lure content creators into their ecosystem by playing on ambiguous terms?

Nice word salad, doesn't mean much. Which marketing campaign, how are they luring, how are terms ambiguous, please expand.

> but the team behind Brave has proven to be scammy and unethical.

Yeah that's the punchline of the propaganda, but you should provide better reasoning if you want to convince anyone.

Your scale of ethics comparing browser companies is extremely inconsistent.
People that have never fasted before seem to think it is the hardest thing anyone could ever do. However once you've done it a couple times, you realize it's not a big deal at all, and sometimes you will even want to fast just for fun.
Yeah, for sure. For every person I know in the legacy tech hub cities/regions who are considering that trendy move to Texas -- people there's a big article about every week these days, it feels like -- I know 2 or 3 more people who are well-positioned for such a move but ultimately decide against it for what we could politely call "cultural factors" like the stuff depicted in these articles.

(Now, of course, this insane totalitarian bullshit happens even in these friends' allegedly liberal tech hub cities. But they see the Austins and Nashvilles of the world as being replete with such things, and articles like these suggest they're not all that far off.)
At 18 and a few weeks old, I did NOT have the awareness. At 33 and a few months, though, I feel I'm better aware of being taken advantage of, and have raised my hourly requirements to better suit contract work. I had no negotiation skills, and even if I did, they wouldn't have upped the pay, and then I would have been back to working at a call center for $8/hr.

The job was a crap job, but that job taught me a LOT about being a software developer.
another related term is Free Culture, in analogy to Free Software
These are unsolved in the sense that there is no formal or comprehensive solution to them, and in the limit that means that ML cannot be used for some applications.

On the other hand there are mitigations that can be implemented to increase the confidence that we have in ML centric solutions - and that can bring some applications back into scope.

Figure 5 shows this using the metaphor of layers of swiss cheese that other folk have used with relation to stopping Covid. Of course we can't stop Covid completely, but by being careful and getting a vaccine, ventilation and masks you can improve your chances.
>If it's legal then banks should have no choice but to handle it.

Right. But banks are regulated by the US Federal government. And according to US federal law[0], possessing and selling cannabis is just as illegal as possessing and selling methamphetamine or heroin.

As such, unless and until that changes, the banks aren't going to involve themselves in what the US Federal government deems a felony, regardless of what the several states do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act
Isn’t taxi-takeoff-landing what consumes the most energy? It’s often 10% to 25% of the total flight consumption for supersonic planes like the Concorde (but not for the SR-71, since they refueled in-flight to fill the rest with inert gas https://theaviationgeekclub.com/former-sr-71-driver-explains... ), and still a lot for the other planes.
In reply to a now deleted child comment, since I'd already finished writing it:

>> “She didn’t know how basic stacks worked,”

> Is it clear that the engineer is talking about the stack data structure vs. the tech stack?

Yes, given the way the quote is phrased, it's a stretch beyond reason to interpret "basic stacks" as "tech stack." Furthermore, their comment would have still been clueless even if they were referring to "tech stacks." There's a lot of wrongness there to unpack, but one element is the assumption that low-level technical implementation knowledge is a requirement for a valid higher level understanding. That's as foolish as "disqualifying" biologists because they haven't passed a course in quantum mechanics. Whether this thing was built on the LAMP stack, something with Java, or some bespoke thing is completely irrelevant to understanding the effect it has on people and society, which is the only thing at issue here.
do you really need me to say "you're not Michael Phelps"??

this no different than ultrarunner Dean Karnazes who would eat an entire pizza...but he also was doing so while running 100 miles in one shot

you are not these people
The article is BS. Working-class creators are on MXTakatak and Moj instead of Instagram, and that's where their audience is. Those apps are doing very well.

You don't need an international messiah app to save the working class of India. They can figure things out for themselves.
Devour competition by offering higher wages? It doesn't sound like something that has been happening for the last 10 years.
What about Bretton Woods? That existed until the Nixon administration.
> peasant refugees

There's an attempt at painting criminals of the American Revolutions as "refugees" when they fled north. Interesting the history courses are building up this narrative.

> Cash payments for indigenous scalps

What's often omitted from history books is that indigenous people fought a lot even before Europeans arrived.
What do people expect after (at least) 25 years of society-destroying anti-tax policies?
That's useful most of all to FB, where plenty of political discussion is about how to put a leash on FB these days. Don't want users to be subjected to that now, would we?
Didn't expect this to front page, and my cloud mongo was being dumb, had to restart the instances.
Real Estate Bubble Won’t Pop
From my skim, this seems to be focused on the US, not the world, with special attention to learning about the many unique cultures a student will encounter growing up. I ended up atheist, but being exposed to all the world's religions--most with some presence even in rural Georgia--in an interactive way (temples, churches, etc) helped moderate my views. Exposure absent understanding breeds extremism.
I would argue that, in the long run, gRPC/protobuf has a lower operational cost than JSON as long as you don't need to talk to it from a browser.

(Consuming it from a browser is a hassle because client-side JavaScript code is unable to speak the full gRPC API, so you need to fuss with reverse proxies to get everything working.)

What it doesn't have is a short learning curve. In order to get started, you need to learn the *.proto format, and how to use the code generator, and all the design implementations of the different data types it supports, and all of that.

But, once you get over that hump, it makes a lot of the hard stuff much, much easier to get right.

What I keep wishing for is some sort of "gRPC-lite" that doesn't include quite as many questionable micro-optimizations as protobuf/gRPC, but does include all of the really good ideas like specification-first API development, service reflection, and a clean logical separation between HTTP semantics and the semantics of the API that's being implemented on top of it.
DUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817683
Stress levels (emotional, physical, both at once) are also known triggers for flare-ups of autoimmune disorders (MS, lupus, etc). These disorders will readily obviate high stress levels, and people with AI disorders learn quickly that managing stress is often their best weapon for managing the disease.

Even without these disorders, your body is still having to cope with and dispose of these conditions somehow. Often this is a crescendo of getting through the week (thanks adrenaline), and suffering massive headaches on Friday night/Sat morning. Not surprising to me that chronic high stress manifested as horrible headaches with your wife, essentially forcing her to shut down for repairs - usually this means crawling into a dark room and staying there until the pain stops. I imagine that far more unseen/unfelt damage was happening that was more easily ignored on a daily basis (blood pressure and chronic inflammation for instance).

Unchecked inflammatory responses, particularly chronic inflammation for months, is highly damaging to the body, even if the effects aren't noticed in real time.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that yes, chronic high stress sucks, is very unhealthy, and its evident effects are manifested in odd ways which our bodies are are less capable of papering over as we get older.

If someone out there reading this is suffering from chronic headaches, or feels hung-over occasionally even when they have no excuse for it, destress your life systemically - meaning don't just try meditating, but change jobs like above comment said. Structurally remove the elements that are driving your body into such a condition, because it will only get worse as the effects compound and your body ages.
You can jail children in the US? What kind of country is this?
"The recruiter telling me they only had budget for $30k (no software engineer would have accepted that low of pay in 2006 in Houston), making me team leader to get me to do more work, making me lay off around $300k worth of employees and do their work myself without giving me even a dollar of extra pay."

This sounds like basically every job to me. Are there actually places that will give you raises to pay you what you're worth without having to fight or leave?
> The distribution repos can be severely outdated, maybe even buggy

They may be outdated (as in RHEL or Debian Stable) but even old versions get regular bug fixes. And RHEL and Debian and its family pretty much run the world (except the parts written in COBOL running under CICS and z/OS)
We need more projects like this.
I once joined a company that was a total clown show: Product was a mess, no source control, no bug tracker, no release process, little to no QA, sales drove the product priorities, which changed daily, frequent trips to VIP customers to debug live on their equipment… with a single junior engineer holding everything together. He had no idea It Wasn’t Supposed To Be This Way. We spent a lot of time talking about how it is at normal companies, best practices, and we both soon left for greener pastures. He probably would have stayed there for years if I hadn’t opened his eyes!
Economists in the public sphere are a fraction of practising economists and are often bought and paid for to push narratives. Or, as you said, hammer their models to fit their theories.

Economics as a field though does create good models and predictions, but most of those are in the private sector, where money matters and weeds out faulty models.
Say you have a USB coffee maker with a custom kernel driver and you want to put that driver in userspace. Just take one specific kernel version that has that driver, build it as a microkernel (so the kernel runs as a user mode process) including that driver, and then make that driver talk to the rest of the system over a stable interface like dbus. (Think of something like UML.)

The fact that the kernel ABI is unstable is irrelevant because you're not relying on ABI stability. You're using a specific version of the core kennel paired with a specific version of the driver.
Rust is a language that forces you to do things in a way that makes code more robust at the cost of a little upfront thought and inconvenience.

The parent comment is complaining that Rust will make kernel dev too hard? Are they joking? It is already complicated.

I would rather see a more formally constructed language used for the kernel than risk adding more C-related bugs.
Sure, that doesn't mean that they are experiencing average 40% housing inflation because they arent