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> When you think hard about 1&2 and come up with solutions, congratulations, you just reinvented the blockchain. If not, I am happy to hear how would you solve.

Well, I've been thinking about it some, and I don't see how blockchain is even a solution to #1 in the first place, much less presumably the only solution. For data collection concerns, the most natural solution is of course to simply see that data is never collected in the first place, and this can happen via legal means (e.g., GDPR) or technological means (don't include unnecessary sensors).
If we consider that the deepest submersibles in the US Navy "only" went 1.5 km deep (not talking about experimental craft, only deployed, actively deployed equipment), I'd be really cautious before embarking on this ship.

This was a guy in a Marina nonchalantly going where the fucking US Navy, the most powerful navy in the whole history of the world doesn't dare to tread.
> I think the idea is that more money and resources should lead to more investments in workplace safety.

Thing is, they have made more investments.

It should come as no surprise that trucking is one of the most dangerous jobs in America. All of the shipping companies with available injury data show up equally dangerous. Sanders hasn't revealed anything shocking. It is well understood that driving is just plain dangerous.

We can clearly see heavy investment in things like self-driving technology has been made at Amazon; something which could improve workplace conditions – maybe even eliminate the workplace entirely, removing all possible danger to the ultimate degree. They have invested unsuccessfully, perhaps, but that is the nature of investment. Investment does not guarantee yield. Many (most?) investments will fail.

I'm guessing Sanders thinks the audience believes in magic?
You said best selling in NA, but the source says best selling in the world.

In NA I believe it's F150 first and model Y second.
I always encouraged my son to follow his own interests, but exposed him to what I was into. Once he got to high school and started taking "computer science" he really opened up to it and became passionate about it on his own terms. This was amazing to watch unfold and really morphed our relationship into something even more special. Unfortunately the universe decided it was his time to and he passed away a few weeks ago, a week after his 18th birthday and high school graduation. I know he would've gone on to do marvellous things to help our world become a better place, miss ya bud.
* After observing 1000 human-controlled demonstrations, collected in just hours, RoboCat could direct this new arm dexterously enough to pick up gears successfully 86% of the time. *

Interesting, but this doesn’t sound like something that can be useful. For practical industry applications, you need high success rates. Assume you are running operations where dropping/flips/damages to the items that a robot handles are costly and not acceptable.

Its only for a hobbyist pick-and-place, dropping a Lego block or wasting some components is not a big deal.
One side says "Bitcoin good!"

I assume they all still hold bitcoin or dream of doing so.

One side says "Bitcoin bad!"

I assume they don't hold bitcoin.

I think the idea is sexy, and it definitely harkens back to the earlier hacker/counterculture days of the interwebs.

But I guess I will just sit on the sidelines. I don't even lament selling bitcoin at $300 any more. :)
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The controller itself is probably reliable enough, like any cheap keyboard on amazon. I wouldn't want my life to rely on bluetooth though.
Not intentional. I'm not familiar with the latter two. I'll take a look- thanks
4 Reasons China can't reset the world
FWIW, I'd estimate that Microsoft has sold something like 200 million Xbox controllers.
Didn't know about the Taleb part, but you're obviously right. Just because someone has "skin in the game" doesn't tell us anything.

We need to know more about said someone, their risk aversion profile and history, and what part of their area of expertise matches the "game" -- if any.
New number, whodis
Look they announced it publicly posted right in the back of the file cabinet in the basement behind the warning rabid tigers sign.

Here's a question for Gitlab: "Why did you require me to give you an email address to sign up?"

The answer to that question means there is no explaining why they didn't use it first, and followed up with at least a couple updates along the way. This is exactly what the address exists on thier db for.
My numbers come from a far better source, with 1,475 data points, that includes the actual total compensation software eng receive:

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/san-fra...

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/tampa-s...

This is much more realistic to what software eng here can expect to make. And that COL index is laughable, when it's housing is 3.5x SF to Tampa. As median rents, 3.3k to 1.9k show, your actual net cost of housing is nothing like 3.5x. Buying a $1.5m SF home vs. $500k Tampa is as much an investment as it is just a housing cost. Remember, that if real estate appreciation/inflation equals your interest cost, you are effectively only paying 1.25% property taxes, equivalent maintenance, and negligible insurance.
This is usually done with a plug hatch and it's not that complex. The Alvin submersible has one and it's from 1964.
How? Do you blame an intelligence agency working for its country’s interests? How’s this different from the FBI/CIA working together to extradite/persecute person outside of their jurisdictions?! Do you blame them too or do you blame the country that person in that allowed such overseas extradition? Why is it ok to have Julian Assange for example facing extradition by the US and charged overseas?

Exactly, suddenly these are ok, and it’s legal, and it’s due to “security/intelligence alliance”, you can come up with all excuses but at the end it’s the same, just the old mentality:”it’s ok of we do it, not ok if they do it”, and replace “they” with whatever nation/country the narrative is against at that time.
> > as a store of value

Bitcoin failed as a store of value, it's up some 20,000% since 2010 and basically infinty since the day of its first trade (back when the first bitcoin was traded for some trivial amount of electricity)

Store of value is a very specific term
Would something like opt-in sharing of pages between processes that oracle has been trying to get into kernel be the correct option: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/cover.1682453344.git.khalid....

Postmaster would just share the already shared memory between processes (containing also the locks). That explicit part of memory would opt-in to thread -like sharing and thus get faster/less tlb switching and lower memory usage. While all the rest of the state would still be per-process and safe.

tl;dr super share the existing shared memory area with kernel patch

All operating systems not supporting it would keep working as is.
Chemistry used to be a scientific spin on the Jackass franchise. Although to be fair often it was the assistants doing the taste tests - not the chief chemist at the lab.
Even if that is the case, the ethos of the company was to dismiss safety concerns, use inappropriate hardware, stonewall and then fire the only person who cared.

People died. I do hope the CEO isn't one of them, because he needs to be thrown in front of a court. Same with the other senior executives and HR.
Do you not go to national parks and other similar places where you wouldn't be able to get an Uber?
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I suspect the name "goodwill" doesn't really help, either. It's just that accounting wants both sides of the ledger to balance, and this is the bucket that was chosen a long time ago to balance the difference between traditional assets and intangibles.

I will say that while I don't think goodwill is sus in and of itself, your intuition that people doing things with the goodwill value can be sus. If I buy a company with $10m in assets and $5m in goodwill, and a year later announce I'm writing down the goodwill to $1m, something is definitely up! I may have mis-managed the company into the ground. It may be that the premium I paid was based on fraudulent assessment of the intangibles (e.g. a bunch of future sales that never existed), things like that.
+1 to that.

Not because of the (non-existent) rule, but because "depth" is a stronger word than "to." It's almost always better for the last word to have some punch.
I'm not sure what you're doing on the home page (and I won't go in again to find out) but it single-handedly killed my entire browser session. My machine completely froze for more than a few seconds.
Yes, if one had the budget to do all those things, from scratch, better than an existing component manufacturer.

Not many companies have NASA levels of "throw money at it until it works, and every part has been signed off on five times."

Absent that, I'm having trouble seeing how custom > COTS.

In all probability, anything in-house would have been worse and added new failure modes.

Better to buy, analyze, and adapt as needed.

And if it turns out you don't need to adapt, because failure modes aren't safety-critical or components are viable in the environment, then spend your time on something more useful.
Domain spoofing, a fraudulent practice where attackers impersonate a domain they don't own to send misleading emails, often with nefarious intentions like phishing or spreading malware, is a significant problem for domain owners. Domain authentication measures like DMARC, DKIM, and SPF work well in tandem to protect domains from spoofing on the open internet. Unfortunately, a weakness in DMARC leaves domain owners vulnerable to spoofing attacks if their SPF record authorizes a large shared IP address space to send emails from the domain, such as the Microsoft 365 service, the Google Workspace service, or a transactional email-sending service like MailChannels.

This problem is so acute that the working group preparing the next version of DMARC is debating whether to remove SPF from the next iteration of the DMARC standard. As an example of the severity of the problem, UPS recently fell victim to an impersonation attack in which a phishing gang could get Gmail to render the official UPS logo next to messages sent by the attacker, even though DMARC would normally prevent this. The Gmail team had to scramble a priority 1 response, changing how it interprets SPF record lookups when authorizing the display of logos for major brands within Gmail. “It passed DMARC because UPS use Microsoft for email (and it’s in their SPF record), so you just need to send it from any Microsoft account.”

To fight this problem, MailChannels has created a DNS-based solution it is calling Domain Lockdown, allowing domain owners to lock their domains to specific MailChannels accounts and sender-ids to prevent others from spoofing them in the service from different accounts.
I don't doubt you would have more confidence, but human estimations of risk tend to be very poor. So it would still be useful to see whether that sort of belief holds true: that is, whether people who "have skin in the game" really do take fewer risks.

And even if that were the case, it's still quite a complex calculation to make. Let's say there are two architects building a tower block with the knowledge that they will be living in the top floor when it's built. One of them has little appetite for risk and builds their skyscraper very safely, without any real deviation from classic proven standards. Meanwhile, the other architect is much more open to risk and designs their skyscraper using brand new ideas and techniques. Both of them are equally happy to stay in the top floors of their buildings, but are the two buildings equally safe and risk free?
No. Pretty obviously they are not as mature as 18 years old which is why they should not make these decisions. They are more naive easier to manipulate and more of kids the adults.

10 years old understand joining army means joining army. And still don't get to make those decisions.
If you're looking for a performant no-code database, you might want to try Baserow. It's made to scale, and can handle 1M+ rows with 15+ fields. More information about this topic can be found in our 1.17 release blog post here https://baserow.io/blog/1-17-release-of-baserow. Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Baserow.
What good is it at the sea floor?

It needs to be raised, and placed on Wall Street for all to see.
Yep and they are maintainable. I replaced the foams on the drivers and the tweeters when they gave out, $30 worth of parts and easy to do
Correction: these people were smarter than you, and they may have at some point recently come to understand that they couldn't make a safe tourism business out of this sub.
IRC was originally an alternative to a BBS… You can keep piling this to no end.
> Where you go, how fast, with who..

Where you go can not be inferred from the charging sessions. You can kinda infer the speed, by looking at the state of charger between two sessions. You can't infer with whom you're travelling.

Honestly, people always overinflate the usefulness of "data".
>I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

- John Adams

I do soulless and artless crap like programming so my kids maybe don't have to. I'm doing it to acquire "fuck you money" so my kids can come out of the womb saying "fuck you" and then they can go pursue more virtuous, noble, artful things.
This is definitely an option. But isn't colmena just a nice wrapper on top of the same things nixos-rebuild uses (nix-build, nix-copy, etc) plus some nice-to-haves for easier eval REPL?

I mean, yes, I suppose I can use `nixos-rebuild --fast --build-host foo --target-host foo --flake ".#foo" switch` and maybe even wrap that in a the flake itself (`flake run .#deploy-foo`), but why should I reinvent this wheel, if I can just `colmena apply --on foo` and let it do what I mean?

I definitely will consider nixos-rebuild if colmena won't support something I want. Just like I'm currently considering trying out colmena because deploy-rs can't do `activate test` and messes up `/boot/loader/loader.conf`, which I don't fancy as I want to eventually have a "one-shot reboot into a new generation and if something fails too badly, watchdog will eventually panic (or I'll ask someone to cycle the power) and reboot back to a good generation" ultimate magic rollback. Worst that would happen is that I'll learn a new tool (aka learn what it can't do for me) and won't use it.

No cloud infra here, all bare metal and one tiny auxiliary VPS.
Eh, depends on what protections you’re referring to. Merely being on US soil (regardless of citizenship) guarantees pretty much all legal protections enjoyed by American citizens.

It certainly protects you from harassment by the CCP.
I guess we aren't aware of any Electron alternatives built with JVM. We started out as a web app so we need something that would bundle web based technology. Besides electron Tauri seemed like it was the next best bet.
This doesn't tell us whether new submersibles were ever built.
The most interesting part of this test would be for the bot to avoid getting sued out of existence by IP lawyers. The bots you're referring to -- the Twitter "where can I get this on a t-shirt?" bots come to mind -- are easily baited by people posting copyrighted content that trigger cease-and-desist letters from the law firms that police copyright infringement on the web.
There is zero reason to demand that drinking age is same as joining army age or voting age or owning gun age. It is absurd to demand same age for all these.
CEOs sniff their own abysmally stupid farts all the time. When trying to sell something, the first person you have to trick is yourself, but that does NOT indemnify them for harming others. Getting people killed because you are too stupid to understand basic risk concepts shouldn't be acceptable.

Power should come with responsibility and accountability ESPECIALLY if you are not responsible or accountable.
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, it is a big enough concern to recommend safety equipment in exposure at or above 0.1 ppm. So most of the activities / sources on that diagram don't warrant too much concern, other than cigarette smoking and fresh pain fumes.

Although benzene exposure from cosmetics probably depends highly on what you are using. As per another reply here, those spray on sunscreens are are pretty terrible (likely due to using butane, propane, etc as propellants). Exposure can get as high as 6 ppm in some cases.
To be fair, this is all extremely cynical while we don't actually know what happened.
To be fair, Microsoft also sold a lot of Xboxes that were misdesigned from a thermal perspective, and thus red ringed themselves.
I have tough question for you: how good your service in understanding convoluted metadata and non-traditional formats?

I have about 2.5Tb of Music, and I can not import it to any media management / streaming self-hosted service (including Subsonic and all other DLNA servers & Ko).

Problem is... Metadata. Messy metadata.

Typical solution imports 1/2 of my collection Ok, 1/4 with mangled metadata and 1/4 without metadata at all or can not import completely.

Typical pain points:

(1) Metadata contains "Unknown Artist - Track01", but filenames are Ok and all information can be extracted from file names.

(2) It is FLAC, one file per Album, internal CUE and additional CUE file which references (absent) WAV file in same folder. Typical software duplicate such albums and one copy works, and other is "Not found" - and you must try to play to distinguish two. Some software can not understand embedded CUE at all, and show this as one big track + not-working album (because it can not find WAV referenced by CUE).

(3) FLAC, file per track, with per-track metadata, and CUE which reference all these files to add proper between-track pauses. Typical result: two identical albums. Often such CUE is rejected as "invalid" (because such CUE are "non-standard" extension invented by Exact Audio Copy software), and then it is Ok, but - see next item.

(4) FLAC, flile per track, files doesn't contain any metadata, but there is CUE which reference all these files. It works Ok, if CUE is not rejected as invalid, and, again becomes "Unknown Author - Unknown Album - Track N" if CUE was rejected (often).

(5) Same as 2-4 with APE, WavePack or TTA (do you know this format?) instead of FLAC.

(6) Such monstrosity as ISO9660 image which contains WavePack file (one, whole album), CUE, LOG, some JPEGs. With extension ".iso.wv". Looks like only foobar2000 on Windows can show such container properly, as one album packed with WavePack.

(7) ID3v1 with some non-latin characters in some 8 bit codepage (typically Win-1251 Cyrillic, but not always).

(8) ID3v1 with UTF-8 characters.

(9) ID3v2 with non-UTF-8 national characters.

(10) CUE files in single-byte codepages and not UTF-8 / CUE files in UTF-8. Different variants cause problems for different software.

I'm really struggle to "publish" my collection to listen to it on-the-go...
> how everyone is in this mad quantization rush but nobody's putting up benchmarks to show that it works (tinybox is resolutely supporting non quantized LLaMA)

I don't think this is true. llama.cpp has historically been very conscientious about benchmarking perplexity. Here's a detailed chart of baseline FP16 vs the new k-quants: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684

While most evals aren't currently evaluating performance between quantized models, there are two evals that are:

* Gotzmann LLM Score: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikqqIaptv2P4_15Ytzro...

* llm-jeopardy: https://github.com/aigoopy/llm-jeopardy - You can see that the same Airoboros 65B model goes from a score of 81.62% to 80.00% going from an 8_0 to 5_1 quant, and 5_1 solidly beats out the 33B 8_0, as expected.

Also, GPTQ, SPQR, AWQ, SqueezeLLM all have arXiv papers and every single team is running their own perplexity tests.

Now, that being said, every code base seems to be calculating perplexity slightly differently. I recently have been working on trying to decode them all for apples-to-apples comparisons between implementations.
Agreed, but on the other hand it also saves a lot of complexity and possible headaches down the line. It's kind of a matter of choosing which headache you want. Especially if your table gets larger all those extra bytes in text columns can cost you dozens of GB of disk space, makes indexing slower, etc.

I MySQL/MariaDB enums are just "aliases" for ints, and that works much nicer IMHO, and adding a new value is cheap because it doesn't recheck all the rows (removing values is still expensive, as it needs to check it's not actually used by any row).
Just out of curiosity, is the server-side self-hostable? I want to just try it out.
Incidentally I believe you should be able to use `openssl asn1parse -inform PEM` to read that block and print out the DER-encoded ASN.1 structure, which can be used to help identify what's in there.
Some of the QR codes are visually insane: https://share.cleanshot.com/ztQYr4t5
Problem is there are far far far more cases of an employee reporting irrelevant 'safety' problems just to try to win a settlement from a company.

How do you separate the legit concerns from someone complaining that they can't go to work because their yellow safety vest is slightly dirty and therefore not safe anymore?
They're going 4,000 meters/ 2.5 miles under the sea. Roughly 400 atmospheres of pressure. A quick google shows the longest commercial tether is 1,100 meters and is meant for undersea drones for power/ data.

Aside from the massive tether and engine that would need to pull it, I'd imagine it would rip the submersible to shreds at those depths
Maybe. Others have made that argument before. So far, it's been proven wrong. The rewards are already pretty small, and things are still working. Maybe it could happen after block rewards go to zero? I don't know. But we'll find out if you're right over the next six years!
Yes, it works well for transferring enormous amounts of wealth into a few hands. As seen ever since the introduction of fiat money, for thousands of years of history.
I talk to people every day that are essentially "lying flat" in the US. I can assure you that it's a global movement.

There are incels on 4chan that discuss how to maintain their "NEET" lifestyle, and those are hardly the only people that want to circumvent the system of wage slavery that they were born into.
Chromium or Tauri, you are still building platform specific binaries either way.
I think these people are more likely to be habituated to any risk than people who are forced to keep a professional distance and imagine what might happen with less personal experience.
> This was a case of a CEO putting his own life on the line for profits he will likely never see...

At least he put his money where his mouth was. Or rather didn’t put his money, but you know what I mean.
The load is spread out in a completely different way than gas, because 100% of gas cars get gas at a station, while 80% of people with EVs slow-charge at home (or work or whatever). Fast chargers are for road-trips only.

Obviously, if we're going to move to cleaner energy we will need infrastructure investment. Worrying that it's not already there makes no sense. The demand for improved electrical infrastructure will be a forcing function. There's no need to wait for it. But again, most charging isn't fast charging and likely never will be.

(Charging for apartments and stuff still has a bit of a way to go, so sometimes those people use fast chargers as part of their regular routine, but the solution to that is easy and underway: just put chargers in the apartment parking lot and/or on the streets.)
Stanislaw Lem fan! Thanks for the recommendation, I haven't read that one yet.