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... I didn't dump on Ikea anywhere. Not remotely. Neither did GP.

Nor did I speak of comfort. Nor did GP.

Perhaps you are taking context from elsewhere in the comments and misapplying it to this little thread?

I spoke of beauty and sturdiness and longevity; nature, biodiversity.

I've been to many museums; I've seen the thrones. Roughness doesn't matter when you're putting cushions on, or when your buns are tough from years without sitting on padded chairs.

Your definition of nice furniture is very different from mine, clearly. I suggest that you might try to see things from a broader perspective.

On your other points:

Egypt wasn't known for its abundant forests - I don't know why you would expect great carpentry. Their cushions won't be in the museum, for what I hope are obvious reasons.

You cannot seriously claim only the furniture of the last 50 years is nice, while excoriating me for my lack of knowledge of how ancient people lived. Go read some descriptions of Sumerian furniture.

And yes, if you take your stone axe in 1.5 million BC, and clear a space, and build a house, it's free. Hard work - as I said - but free. No property taxes, no mortgage. Free. No HOA, no building standards... Free. There's nothing "naive" about that. What's patently naive is this insistence that only modern people have any sense of craftsmanship or comfort or quality - I say that because it's true, and you need to hear it; not to flame.
They haven't said it, but they absolutely do it, or at least did about 7-8 years ago.

Source: used to chat with Google search engineers about web spam back in the day at conferences.
Just render the site so the AI gets to “see” whatever the humans see. You can also take into account the visual relationship and infer other data from visual analysis of the rendered page.
Ah, felony (aggravated)vandalism if they didn't enter the doorway...

If they entered the doorway, breaking and entering...
Considering I just paid $74 to Youtbe TV just so I could watch one month of NBA playoffs, I'm sure $80 per year would get you laughed out of the room. They know exactly what they're doing and exactly how much pain they can inflict on the fans to extract the maximum amount of money. Though I do think that kind of short-term MBA thinking causes long-term damage to their brand and product, but they don't know how to calculate that in their quarterly earnings reports. In my mind the Olympics is an example of where the long-term damage is really starting to accumulate, I know several people that used to be big Olympics fans 10 years ago that couldn't be bothered last time around because of how painful NBC makes it.
It's just natural. In any sufficiently complex organization you have internal conflict and competition for resources, often conflicting goals and adversarial relationships that you have on the outside. Internal conflicts can ironically enough be more vicious than external conflict. Any successful company must have processes in place to function despite of that.

A successful tech company in particular can go from 5 to 500 people in just two years. How do you run on trust when 95% of people don't know each other?
“AWS cloud unit was generating operating profits of more than $2 billion a quarter when at a similar revenue level.”

I was at AWS when this was unfolding and cost was never an afterthought. I also felt that the best way to control costs is to make it a section in design docs. This would force the developers to consider costs when proposing design alternatives for a new service or enhancing an existing service.
This line sounds rather congruent with what Gerald Sussman has been saying for years. For example, from: https://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/

At some point Sussman expressed how he thought AI was on the wrong track. He explained that he thought most AI directions were not interesting to him, because they were about building up a solid AI foundation, then the AI system runs as a sort of black box. "I'm not interested in that. I want software that's accountable." Accountable? "Yes, I want something that can express its symbolic reasoning. I want to it to tell me why it did the thing it did, what it thought was going to happen, and then what happened instead." He then said something that took me a long time to process, and at first I mistook for being very science-fiction'y, along the lines of, "If an AI driven car drives off the side of the road, I want to know why it did that. I could take the software developer to court, but I would much rather take the AI to court."
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I always wonder if that is a good decision for the sport in the long run. There is no way I'd subscribe to cable and ESPN to watch F1. That means I'd stop following the sport and the probability of me again spending > $1,500 on tickets goes to zero.
If - big if - autonomous vehicles can be made to work everywhere, it’s almost as big a leap as the car itself.

But boy it’s taken a lot of time and money to get from “mostly there” to “a bit more mostly there”.
I imagine that it we put all the money into expanding city road infrastructure to include sensor networks, rather than autonomous cars, we'd get to the end goal faster and the hardware would be cheaper.
Bunch of them are, including the entire Washington metro and Muni Metro's Market Street Subway and Twin Peaks Tunnel. Most Mainland Chinese metros and Hong Kong MTR. [1] Given the last two alone I'd say probably.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system...
Yeah I was one of the confused at first. Throwing my hands up saying who cares pirates going to pirate. But this is different. They are abusing this service to stream illegal content, vs tapping directly from the akamai stream which I've seen in the past.
certainly much easier to control the variables in a factory...

you dont have to worry about kids on e-scooters or potholes or weather problems or drunk drivers etc etc
I once bought a bunch of cheeses to make lasagna. When I was tasting them as I made the lasagna, I noticed that the ricotta tasted like chalk. Inspected the container, and it happened to actually be some tofu bullshit, not ricotta cheese, except you wouldn't know unless you did a fucking forensic investigation of this particular "ricotta cheese" container that was with all the other ricotta cheeses. So disgusting that it ruined the entire $40(ish?) lasagna. Never again. Pretty sure I shitlisted that whole store for tricking their customers like that.
Supposing cell towers don't currently have a key; if they did your cell provider would certainly have a way to push new ones to your phone, and under government warrant they'd simply push the key of the stingray to your phone as well, or give the stingray the key of an existing tower.
Your best chance would probably be to go primitive - many different pyramids of various designs have stood for over a thousand years.
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100%. Exaggerating the bigness of their own data is a common phenomena. Sometimes one is talking to a group of developers who are all so impressed with this bigness but every one of them has a phone in their pocket which could fit their entire dataset.
You need to ask a lawyer, not an internet forum.
This is one reason why I watch esports. The game makers see it as advertisement for their game so they pay for the leagues and shows.

I can watch all of it on YouTube or Twitch for free.
Pedants and akshuallies and firm believers in the sanctity of useless rules should also be encouraged to take a bong toke from time to time.

It's very good for clearing those conditions right up.
Are you saying you don't think it's likely for the test to be designed to make a certain group perform worse than another as long as some groups outside either of those score better than the group that designed the test? Or that if it was actively designed to make one group perform worse than the one who designed the test, it's not racist because some third group scored even better? Neither of those claims sound particularly persuasive to me
If two people are in a car, 50% of them are driving.

If 100 people are on a train, 1% of them are driving.

My point here is that even trains with drivers can be considered close to driver less vs people driving cars.
Yes they provide the service of flashing GrapheneOS onto a Pixel for people who are not confident enough to do it themselves. I think they kick back some of the revenue to the GrapheneOS project. It is a needed service for people who want the most secure, private, yet functional phone but not the hassle of setting it up.
There have been self-driving busses that use such painted guides on fixed routes; here's a story where Las Vegas was testing such a system using the tech of 22 years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/26/technology/what-s-next-it...

But, I doubt they'd be much help for passenger cars on diverse urban per-trip routes:

* roads are constantly wearing & being trenched or resurfaced; the lines would often be broken or need refreshing, necessitating an effective 'lineless' mode

* cars often need to improvise (including briefly into oncoming lanes) to get around temporary blockages, and need to pull away from the major maintained lanes – again requiring confident off-line operation

* after car sensors/decisionmaking can handle all the other challenges & collisions/traps to avoid, merely following lanes (when needed) is not hard at all: guidelines help with an easy, essentially-solved problem but not the actual potential deployment blockers

Full-unattended self-driving cars are working pretty well in SF right now - on a nighttime walk you'll see many, which are behaviorally only a little more cautious/tentative than human drivers. So, it's only the branding & empty driver's seat that distinguishes them.
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Same. Every time I got the EIC, I never understood why, but the IRS sent me a check saying, I should have gotten it.

Even the year that I screwed up massively by not realizing I needed to pay the AMT, they just sen me a bill.

The experiences left me thinking that the people that constantly fear monger about the IRS are just out and out committing massive tax fraud. Probably not a coincidence that these are the same people complain the loudest about tax enforcement.
This article could use big improvements in both its tone and organization.

People don't have a lot of love for greedy sports broadcasters, and tech people are often associated with a kind of "information wants to be free" ethos (for better or worse), so starting out your blog post with:

> identify and take action against soccer pirates and other delinquents who try to stream copyrighted content

comes across as pretty tone-deaf for the intended audience. Delinquents? What's next, are they going to tell me not to copy that floppy, or ask if I'd download a car?

What's crazier is that they actually have good justification but don't put it until the end of the article -- that pirates are using the service to broadcast streams that become super-popular (racking up charges) and then don't pay their bills for bandwidth and processing, losing near a million dollars in a year. Talk about burying the lead.

This article is a great example of what not to do. But it's a great learning opportunity for the rest of us. Always start your article with why the article subject matters. Don't wait until the end, don't just assume the reader is on your side.

...And also maybe don't call people delinquents when a decent proportion of your readership probably watches some of these same pirated streams...
I don't think 10x is worth the small amount of $ I'd be comfortable putting into it.
Hackintoshes these days border on impossible.

I quit trying to get a T480 to become a Hackintosh due to freezing caused by an incompatibility with the SSD. M1 Max is so damn fast.
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Hmm have they not corrected the arm issue ? Won't the technology evolve to tackle it's shortcomings as it always has ? I don't think we complain about digital projection vs film the same way we did 20 years ago ?
I was at a conference in Germany where Faugère presented his work. The room was stunned, but didn't understand. Hendrik Lenstra asked me to spend several days with Faugère, then give an expository talk. My marching orders: Assume nothing: groups, rings, fields.

I ended up lecturing on Gröbner Bases and Faugère's algorithm to an audience that included Buchberger and Faugère. Faugère appreciated my efforts. Buchberger was like a shook up soda bottle; he made a twenty minute speech during the question period.

I coauthored the computer algebra system Macaulay, that first introduced Gröbner Bases to algebraic geometry, opening up the field to applications. At the time there was a separate community in France studying "standard bases", from which I learned a lot. Their focus was on power series not polynomials, but the translation is easy.

Algebraic geometry is a great subject, and computerizing it was a noble cause, but it thrust me into a backwater where the difference between polynomials and power series is considering significant. I got out.
You'd need to steal a lot more than 106 clocks to control the UTC timescale, (un)fortunately.

Only then could you say that your clock is "right" -- and only a month in arrears (https://www.bipm.org/en/time-ftp/circular-t).
Improving our chances of surviving as a species into future millennia and beyond by giving the human race every edge I can within my wheelhouse while I'm still breathing.

I've had to hold down a full time job, so I've only managed small things like crash reporting, emulation, metalanguage syntax, and a generalized data format. But I have more ambitious projects to greatly improve the energy-efficiency, openness, and robustness of our communications systems, which I plan to leverage into some of my real-world projects going forward (once nice feature is that it will become harder for autocratic regimes to "shut down the internet").
The fact that Europeans "specifically designed" a racist test to make all other races look dumb, but then failed when Asians took it, may in-and-of-itself be an indicator of the relative intelligence of the races.
Tunnel everything on your phone over Wireguard back to a trusted location, and don’t use phone or SMS; stick to VoIP over the VPN tunnel. Any kind of stingray is effectively rendered useless in this scenario.
I wish CSS tools had unique names

https://neat.bourbon.io/
...but rather that we must develop these places to support the crowds that come.

The thing about Everest in particular is it's appeal is that it can't be made safe, that climb it is an inherently dangerous activity - the top of Everest is an area known officially as "the death zone" [1] because just being there kills you (and makes you stupid and torpid).

The final ascent to Everest is paved with trash and corpses because just cleaning up an area of that sort is at least as challenging as reaching a summit. And dying in the death zone is as easy stumbling and no one being able to pick you up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_zone
If I told you that, I'd break my NDA and lose my job. If you're so curious, go fund your own start up ;-)

I have no idea. One movie suggested H3. Others think mining water ice would be an idea. Others think you can use the regolith to 3D print stuff. I'm not the private company launching lunar landers, but I was just making up hypotheticals on why someone might want to practice landing things on the moon.
You could ask the same question about any wiretap. People usually get caught by creating some sort of evidence that they committed the crime. Maybe a recording, maybe they told someone, maybe they acted on the information, etc.
So Self driving is door to door. Train suffers from the same problems as "last mile delivery" (i.e it skips the hard part).
There's definitely a trend of moving back to pirating, just because all the studios and channels are opting for their own service and removing content from Netflix. I don't want to pay for Netflix, Peacock, HBO, Disney+, etc. Not to mention, the tools for finding, downloading, and locally streaming content has become super easy.
>In theory transit is
the optimal solution for the vast
majority of people, not cars.

Not when the train drivers go on strike. In the uk we know all about driverless trains...
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Yeah but even in that case, "reward" is just the thing a NN is trying to predict. The NN itself is not receiving the reward (or any punishment). Instead, it's following gradient signals to improve that estimate of reward, which is then used as a proxy for an optimal policy decision.
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You don't say where you're living or if you rent vs own. All of that can make a difference on what you're allowed to do.

General advice:

Get a doorbell camera and/or a peephole camera. This way you can record who did it and have evidence to go to the police with.

If you really believe this could escalate to a violent physical confrontation, then prepare for that as well. Planning alternate escape paths, and deciding when escape is viable vs having to defend. Because cameras can capture what happened but they won't stop an unstable person.
Thank you thank you for this perspective!!

I've always had trouble finding community in some groups that are so focused on gear. I rarely know enough about gear to carry on a conversation for more than a few minutes, and even if I did I'd be soooo remarkably bored. I’m the kind of person who puts on an ordinary pair of beat-up old shoes past their reasonably serviceable limit and goes on a hike over terrain that really should require spikes.. (shrug)

This "gear as a hobby" carries over to computers too. People who get into custom keyboards, tweaking every detail of their work setup, nerding out about an extra X or Y on some machine. Rarely do these excitements seem to align with important engineering constraints. But it's a collecting/gear hobby. Hmmm, interesting..
I guess you're right [1]:

NORDVIKEN
Table top:
Particleboard, Ash veneer, Stain, Tinted clear acrylic lacquer, Paper foil

Only legs and rails are solid wood.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/nordviken-extendable-table-blac...
Well, don’t leave us hanging
Solvable with a large enough thermal mass. And once we're able to start mining the moon or asteroids for mass to be cheap enough, heat would no longer be a problem in space: use conduction and convection to move heat away quickly, have a holding area for hot matter for radiative cooling to do its thing, then keep adding additional mass until equilibrium temperature of the system is below requirements
Looks great . Will check it out . Is any anything similar for mobile native app ? Perhaps react naive ?
Edit: upon closer review, I see my neighborhood at the edge of town is completely excluded from the new map. I guess “all of San Francisco” only includes about “half of Bayview.” Boo. Some of the people who would benefit most from new forms of transit live around here and I’m more disappointed to see them erased from GM’s stated view of “all SF” than I am to personally miss out for now.

Well, I’m excited. We took our first Cruise this weekend to get between the Richmond and Hayes Valley and it was great. We were immediately saying how much we hoped it would expand to a bigger area with better hours - I’d actually gotten into the beta a few months ago but hadn’t gotten an opportunity to use it at the right time and place.

The biggest flaw, to me, is that I can’t play my own music over Bluetooth. But just being able to select the radio station is a welcome change from the country pop lottery. I think that sort of experience quality improvement will compete hard against human driven alternatives. The Cruise drives a bit like an overcautious grandma, but I’d prefer that any day to the chance of an Uber or Lyft driver that’s aggressive or sloppy on the road. Yes you’re being recorded (I’d assume live monitored right now), but you can talk about whatever you want without potentially being interjected.

Never did get into Waymo - I see them everywhere, and it would have been really convenient for me since I live at the edge of SF without my own car. So woohoo, thanks Cruise!

I’m becoming a true believer in the self driving car vision. Even if they can’t work everywhere til the distant future, they’re already extraordinary in the places they are able to work now. I chuckled to see the headline on HN about self driving cars being a “dead end”, considering how many empty Waymos I see in traffic all the time.
Yale philosophy replaced the grad logic req with a broader “formal methods“ req
> I totally think colleges could teach HTTP.

They do. Anyone who takes a web dev class or takes a Senior Project Course should be familiar with it. I was surprised bootcamp grads didn't know about it since it's most often the first slide of a web-dev class.

> I generally think colleges do a meh to poor job of preparing CS grads for the real world,

Often, an issue I've observed is that students will minor in CS and major in something else, or the way the CS program is structured, you can major in CS with mostly math classes. Which is the way to go if a student is aiming at grad school, but not the best in industry.

> They're probably right that someone could do a bootcamp and be on-par with actual engineers.

I'm very skeptical of that claim. I've never seen it play out. Cramming a 4 years degree into 12 weeks?

> I hate them because I feel like they're selling an expensive, unrealistic dream to people who have no way to know better.

I've interviewed someone from a bootcamp who, after 50 minutes, could not come up with a function to count the words in a string. I use it as a warmup question for freshmen who have completed one semester or CS and it usually takes them about 10 minutes.

So yeah, I completely agree if someone paid 12k for that, they got scammed.
> This is merely being used for illustrative purposes.

Stated more cynically, it's being used to craft a narrative in support of an agenda.
Not a game but I once worked on a Miro clone. We used canvas for the... canvas part... but plain old HTML for all the UI elements as those don't need to be redrawn every time you blink.
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The leagues did. I was never disputing that fact.

There's a common misconception that blackouts are in place to protect attendance, but that is (typically) not the case. The Chicago Blackhawks did that for a while (under ownership of Bill Wirtz who explicitly thought that showing local games would hurt attendance) but when Rocky Wirtz took over the team in 2007, he reversed that policy.

Blackouts exist to protect local media rights, which you correctly pointed out were sold to them by the league/teams.

You'll see though that many local sports networks are in financial trouble, and leagues are looking for ways to reacquire the rights to stream directly to fans.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35668388/rob-manfred-mlb...
I haven't used it myself, but haven't Tesla/Waymo/Cruise all definitely validated it is not "impossible" (like BYD are claiming). They are all working on making it more reliable, not "validating if it's possible".

Also, Didn't Tesla Autopilot originate from factory automation/self QAing car in factory? (Maybe I misread that, and I can't find reference now).

This feels like a very big "We are giving up on that" call from BYD.
Isn't that line of thinking why the Linux kernel will never be GPLv3?
I'm not any kind of proponent of hard drugs, but yes, I do think legalization and control of fentanyl would be much less costly then what we have going on now.

Not like we have done with cannabis though, that obviously would be a disaster.

But I do think some wise well regulated control and dosage with some form of monitoring or limitation would be very much less costly in terms of dollars, lives saved, health and social disruption.
Will the incentives be the same?

Right now the incentive is to keep users on pages to show them ads.

How does the site owner get ad revenue from the AI training on their site?