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For this, I would consider UniFi Protect. Their doorbell cam is nice, their other cameras are nice, their software isn't the worst by a mile.

With some simple detours, you can set up a Protect system -- cameras and "console" (NVR) -- to operate completely independent of the cloud, or altogether isolated if you like. Attractive devices and family-friendly. Homekit compatible via an excellent Homebridge plugin.

Not necessarily the cheapest, but, again, there are no recurring fees, either, as there would be for much equipment of similar quality.
Good point, another common reason that slipped my mind. Dogs can get snake-bit or horribly mauled by any number of things, for farmers who don't even deal in livestock but do have dogs. Horses, obviously (though you don't necessarily shoot one just because it broke a leg, like in Hollywood westerns). Cows can get up to some really stupid shit. Wild animals can get hurt by machines, and getting close to them may be dangerous. Yeah, that's another big reason.
Yeah but we can serialize the world to numbers and already have.

I asked GPT3.5turbo "Pretend you are a character called Samatha and you're in your house. You go up to the thermostat and select a comfortable temperature and explained your reasoning"

> Next, I take into account my personal preferences and comfort levels. Everyone has their own ideal temperature range, and it's essential to find the sweet spot that makes me feel most comfortable. For me, it's usually between 22 to 24 degrees Celsius (72 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit). This range allows me to feel neither too cold nor too warm, striking the perfect balance.

It also goes on about how the humidity could effect the desired temperature, etc.

It doesn't need the ability to feel temperature (which could also be a single floating number using kelvin), but it can already describe a "comfortable temperature" and what factors would effect it.

Side note: It doesn't "know" anything, it can only make a "best guess" which is now fairly reliable enough to be useful. It doesn't need the ability to test things to learn, we did it already for it, and it's using that to predict the results. You could make a recursive system to allow it to test data if you'd like though.
> You think Boeing didn't already have all those processes and shops in place?

For parts likely not manufactured in decades? No. They likely didn't have current paperwork for that. Boeing wasn't sitting around just waiting to replace some trash cans just in case the Pentagon was going to order some.

Trash cans for a plane whose commercial counterpart has been out of service for decades is literally not an economy of scale. An order for replacement trash cans at this point is a specialty boutique order.
This is a site populated by a group of people that society massively overestimates the intelligence and competence of, and it very often goes to their head. The amount of software developers that actually have any real idea of what rigorous engineering actually is is vanishingly small and those that do usually only "get it" because they worked adjacent to disciplines that take it more seriously.

Not to say the average user here is an idiot, but it's pretty clear that cribbing together code in extremely low-risk environments doesn't impart any understanding of how designing, manufacturing, and supporting critical products over a 5+ decade lifespan is actually done.
Thanks again for your thoughtful responses.
It's common enough in seccomp filters; I've personally used them there. Sometimes you trap into a user space dameon via seccomp_unotify to do relatively unbounded brain surgery on the unprivileged process, but that's pretty expensive to trap out and back to a daemon and it's much better if possible to make the decision in the filter program if you can get away with it.

Edit: Perhaps you'd be happy with another example that isn't a string processing function, but follows the same core idea I'm trying to get across of compute offload from the verified program to create useful verifiable programs: bpf_l3_csum_replace. It's not too hard to hit an mtu where you'd run out of instructions just recomputing the checksum because of the complexity of per byte computation required if it were to happen in regular bpf. This helper is not exposing a specific of the network stack or kernel really (other than who else needs one's complement?), but is instead really a unit of computation not super amenable to bpf verification that's still required of the use cases expected of bpf.
UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI – Jakob Nielsen on UX
It's not legal by chance. Coffee is good for the heart and possibly slightly extends life. It can help you get stuff done. Not all drugs are bad for you.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/947300?
In JS every function is a variadic function, though. The problem is that many people ignore that fact for whatever reason.

function fn() { }

is semantically the exact same as

function fn(a, b, c) { }

in JS.
Coconut and palm oils are the least healthy of all the vegetable oils. In terms of saturated fat, they're almost as bad as beef fat.
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It isn't at all clear yet that their open cycle engine is dated. Raptor has yet to prove reliable. Perhaps it will be, perhaps it will not. It is fundamentally harder to start the full flow staged combustion cycle, so time will tell if they can make this work as reliably as they have the merlin.

SpaceX still makes all of their money with a simple open cycle rocket engine, and it burns RP1 which is expensive to clean up. Prometheus would be better in that regard.
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And then came WASM...
> Where's the humans?

I don't think we should be feeding humans to mice. People these days tend to be 30% fat or more - that's just too unhealthy for our little furry friends.
it depends what you mean when you say “we”.

The USA tends to assume everything is legal until there is evidence of harm. The EU tends to take a more precautionary stance and is more likely to claim harm with a lower barrier of proof.

Testing does happen, but the majority of it is done by the same corporations that have a financial interest in minimizing the negative results.
> Slotmap uses unsafe everywhere, it's a memory usage pattern not supported by the borrow checker. Is disabling the borrow checker really a common pattern in Rust?

Wrapping "unsafe" code in a safe interface is a common pattern in Rust, yes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using "unsafe" so long as you are diligent about checking invariants, and keep it contained as much as possible. Obviously the standard library uses some "unsafe" as well, for instance.

"unsafe" just means "safe but the compiler cannot verify it".

Unsafe does not disable the borrow checker, though. All of the restrictions of safe Rust still apply. All "unsafe" does is unlock the ability to use raw pointers and a few other constructs.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#unsa...
Like ribs in an airplane wing, which provides the bulk of compression strength and transfers loads to spars.
pretty popular, and growing, in big city Canada, too.

ngl, I occasionally ponder one
TIL that "chicken salt" is a thing that exists! Thanks!
Those things are bigger than an old F-250, and they only have a 4.5' bed.

They're also not really pickup trucks, underneath they have the same SUV unibody as the Bronco (yikes) and the Escape.
And I'm saying a 100% hit rate is not possible. Your ability to determine an accurate numerical hit rate is also very difficult to impossible.

If we treat this kind of thing as an oracle rather than admit that it's a flawed heuristic, even a good heuristic being ultimately flawed, I think that's pretty dangerous. One has to be extremely humble at the task of evaluating people, because it's difficult and error-prone.
Mearsheimer is not liked, but he predicted this tragedy.

Mearsheimer: Russia Sees ‘Existential Threat,’ Must Win

https://peaceworker.org/2022/04/mearsheimer-russia-sees-exis...
Instead of subsidizing agricultural production which causes weirdly imbalanced incentives we might try subsidizing the practice of keeping 1% of the land in a wild state to encourage ecological diversity. That would keep a small channel open for any big land holders which in many areas is mostly farmers. It would also help with the problems caused by large areas with monoculture agriculture and no wild places for animals to seek refuge.

Considering farming critical and having some kind of census like information gathering interface could be a way to indirectly offer mental health care services without the stigma.
The article may be needlessly framing forest fire management as a racial issue. But it shouldn’t surprise or offend anyone that the people who are from here and have a deep respect for nature as part of their culture would have a better understanding of how to maintain the forest. That professor has valuable knowledge to share and for a long time, people weren’t willing to listen.
Rather sad to me that none of these price drops seem to trickle down. Hurray for more solar farms but it would nice if the price of a backpack solar panel was a dollar less than it was a decade ago.
> same as why rural areas have high rates of ownership and access to firearms, but don't experience the violent crime rates found in cities. It's not the guns, it's who has the guns.

You may be surprised about that, actually. Cities often make headlines or rankings under things like "Xth most violent US city" with some implicit assumption behind it that larger cities are more violent than rural areas, towns, or smaller cities under whatever threshold is being used in that analysis, but that's not actually true. Absolute numbers are high in big cities (they're denser—duh) but rates may surprise you.

[EDIT] This is a shitty site, but it's the general kind of thing you can expect to find, if you dig into this:

https://www.police1.com/ambush/articles/10-us-counties-with-...

Highest-murder-rate counties yields about 60/40 small cities or rural, and the usual suspects for violent big cities (Baltimore, DC, STL, New Orleans—notably absent: Chicago, NYC, LA)

You'll see similar results for crime in general. Most big US cities aren't remarkably-horrible dens of crime—not relative to small cities and rural counties, anyway, and not when looking at the per-capita rate and including those lower-pop areas. The safer half or so of large US cities are safer than large swaths of rural and small-town/city America. Big-city doesn't necessarily equal higher crime, violence, or murder rate than small cities and rural counties. It only seems that way because, for some reason, crime in cities is usually highlighted and presented in ways that suggest that's true.
Short answer: Yes I feel that definitely, not really for me anymore. We took things way too far and it's pulling us apart at the seams.

Longer answer: We're leaving the early(ish) days of the industry. Tech is well established and solidly mainstream now, and it's even viewed as a prestigious path for young, intelligent people who have it together to pursue. Apps and sites are targeted at the average non-power user. I suppose you can say software has shifted from a creative medium to a mostly consumptive medium.

I do miss some of the old hacker style crowd. People that didn't care where you were from or if you went to school or where you worked, just that you cared to write code and do cool stuff for the sake of it. The feeling of exploring new ideas and doing things just because they were interesting. I feel like if you are caught using vim or emacs now people will raise eyebrows that it's not Intellij lol. Text interfaces are great, the command line is great, love that stuff.

You can also attribute some of this feeling to the centralization of the internet, mass adoption via smartphones, and shift from textual media to image/video media.

It's a different era for sure, but don't lose hope. The barrier to entry for making things is still super low, and there are tons of people out there doing weird experimental stuff. You can also contribute to this too, or not. The old net and community is still around just harder to find. Many of them are also just "logging off" as they raise families or pursue offline hobbies.
Worse, sometimes the people who do it are completely unaware they are making a dark pattern, because they see the result of A/B test and convince themselves it's superior to what they think.
Crotch scan doesn't happen in the EU, and the rest doesn't matter if you can get there much faster.

>And you travel from city center to city center, rather than middle-of-nowheres named after a city.

When you land you can rent a car... when you arrive on a train you are forced to either pay for a taxi or take pub... pu... public transportation
> this is definitely something SpaceX does right.

To me (european), I don't like how SpaceX shows off. The technology is cool though, but when I see their kind of communication, to me it sounds like "US marketing".

So yeah... cultural thing maybe.
What's the alternative? If a trashcan of that specification is needed to allow the airplane's mission to begin, then it's grounded until the trashcan is in place.

The alternative is to find a less costly supplier that can meet that specification. Now you've (a) held up the missions and (b) more than likely used up any cost savings in your procurement & supplier evaluation process.

At some point, the intelligent thing to do is shrug, grumble under your breath, and write the check so you can get on with life.
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It sucks that billionaires like Musk spend their money on vanity stuff like twitter or yachts when instead with their wealth they could be personally funding… a mars… um…
This engine is going into their reusable demonstrator Callisto. Callisto is a copy* of SpaceX's Grasshopper that flew... 11 years ago

* https://satelliteobservation.net/2018/06/02/cnes-director-of...

> Callisto is Grasshopper. The Chinese are also building a similar prototype, I have no problem saying we didn’t invent anything.
I would agree for any other kind of project, except for a GitHub alternative.

How does it look from the potential users' perspective when the product they market is not the product they choose to use for themselves?
Were you using the phone app-based installation, or visiting the local network address from a desktop computer?

Most products like this have some kind of "harder way" to set up without an account, while the smartphone way uses an account. For a router usually means that if you want the old-fashioned manual way you need to visit the router's gateway IP and set it up from there.

Sometimes "the smartphone way" even has a way around having to make an account, it's just that it's hard to find or discouraged. E.g., I set up my HP printer without an account or any ink subscriptions (and I even think it's a great printer, shocking, I know).

(I had a Nighthawk device relatively recently and it had no need for an account, but I don't actually know if this has changed recently)
It's essentially a "user-space" memory allocator with it's own use-after-free and double-free checks, apparently because the language implementation isn't adequate. If anything it just reinforces the articles point that "borrow checking is incompatible with some useful patterns and optimizations."
Dopamine agonists like cabergoline suppress prolactin levels and are sometimes prescribed for orgasm disorders in men. I’ve never heard of them being used recreationally, however.
The real reason people moved to the infinite ones is that the determinate progress bar is almost never accurate or representative, hence useless.

Like beyond truly "dumb" tasks like downloading a file it's basically a guessing game how long it will take anyway, right? Say you split the whole loading bar into percentages based on the number of subtasks, suddenly you end up with a progress bar stuck on 89% for 90% of the total loading time.

Obviously you could post-hoc measure things and adjust it so each task was roughly "worth" as much as the time it took, but people rarely did that back in the day and my boss would get mad at me for wasting time with it today. Hence, spinners.
Yep, and from the looks of it, I’ll be out of it sooner or later whether I want to or not. I came to the realization not too long ago that this is not the field for me.

Not that I’ll miss it, it’s just that there’s no where else to go.
Regulation exists for a reason and is not always a bad thing; sadly OceanGate is providing one of those periodic reminders.
If you say "Transformer" and "Megatron" in the same sentence, you have my full-attention for at least enough time to start making a serious observation about ML, or frankly, anything.
Sure okay, your own world view must be the only way people live and anyone who claims to live differently is lying yeah?
No, it's a computer. It's not a healthy replacement for human interaction. It's good for some kicks or laughs and that's it. Past that it veers into unhealthy. More and more we complain about feeling alone and on an island, socially deserted, while being surrounded by humans we know or wish we knew more. Let's work on community and not replacing it with a language model.

And I say all of this as a very intense introvert. I get everything I need for social interaction during the day from participating in comments on here or chats during live streams on YouTube or twitch and talking to my girlfriend. I've played around with replika and other chat things and local models and there's no contest.
What the hardware gives, the developer takes away. Developers will get computers 30% faster, then release 30% slower software, in a never ending cycle.

Right now, an M1 is pretty fast, but wait until all developers use it and it starts to become barely adequate.

Rephrasing Wirth's law: It takes slow hardware to develop fast software.
it’s cool. Goals, standards, and raising the bar drive us forward.
It can still be conveniently tested. He is making a statement and should be more clear that is what is happening here.

He didn't do free work for their platform. He did work using their platform which he made freely available to further his own situation. I don't say that in a judgemental way. There is nothing wrong with that, but let's not misrepresent it.
> they seem to use esoteric language in order to create a veneer of importance,

It's kind of true, but also I think the real answer is that you're not the target audience.

A lot of time you use esoteric language because part of the problem being solved for in these conversations are:

1. what are useful and meaningful abstractions?

2. which abstractions are seeing uptake?

3. Who gets credit for the abstraction?

This mean papers are very often introducing new terminology as part of an exploratory conversation. Communication is optimized for the people engaging in that process.

As time passes most of these terms fall into disuse and the field circles around a few winners which then pass into the wider world. This stage is much more approachable and this content is what most of us are used to consuming.
> Almost impossible to buy your way into farming as an individual business strategy (10k/acre in the midwest, need ~500 acres to support a family).

Can anyone explain to me why farmland in developed countries is so expensive? It sounds like a terrible investment to buy it at such prices, and yet somebody's doing it.
what is project 92 ?
Boeing pays at least on business I know to essentially have a complete label printing line with staff available to run it. Each label must be hellaciously expensive when they need one but my understanding was that some(all?) are part of the certification for airworthiness. So a missing or damaged label can ground the plane, which is far more expensive than the label.
The point is more that a nuke is unnecessary in any case.
> Given that these new cameras that need accounts sure aren’t showing ads on the feeds either

You haven't noticed many of the companion apps for IoT(of Shit) have those "store"/"discover'/"savvy user center" sections where they try their best to get you to buy more of their devices? Plus a barrage of notifications, in-app banners or emails how you're eligible for a "discount" or "promo"?

This - plus online services (re-broadcasting outside of home network, recording storage, face/object/sound recognition and notifications, etc - any software features that can be pay-gated, especially those that can't be done on-device because the device is ultra-cheap) is how they make money.

> I can only conclude that they must be selling access to feeds

I'm skeptical. Who's the buyer and what are they going to do with those feeds to make them useful? And if it's for something remotely legal - how they're going to untaint this data?

This works in cyberpunk novels - cameras sweeping data, AIs detecting that a neighborhood is $brand turf, classifying all the individuals, ..., massive profit! But reality is messier and way less logical than any fiction (and we don't have any AIs yet, while fiction has them abundant and dirt-cheap). Out of curiosity, I've just had a long session with GPT-4 (which is a really uneconomical way to do advertising, but maybe in 5-10 years?), telling it all I see in my room in extreme detail, down to all the scuff marks and pet hairs. It wasn't exactly bad - it managed to realize the obvious (which is much cheaper to deduce from my search and purchase history, huh), but let's say I haven't made any new records on my purchase list.
The disciples were upset by the waste because Jesus had a pretty clear and consistent message on wealth. Jesus didn't tell them they were wrong about his message either, seems like he just didn't like that they were being dicks to the woman, didn't want her turned into a villain, and he went out of his way to say she would be remembered for her actions which were directly serving him.

> While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor." Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

Hearing the story as a kid though, I kind of suspected it was really just Jesus saying:
"I'm literally about to die for you assholes ffs, can you guys lay off for 5 minutes and just let me have this one nice thing!"
the "natural scroll direction" is shared for mice and the trackpad, so you can't have mice and the trackpad scroll different without third party software
And they doubled down on dumb and lazy when the judge first raised the flag that something was wrong with what they submitted.
This is another Aluminium Air battery, same concept different metal. None of them considers splitting water is energy intensive and inefficient. Another hydrogen fool cell category fuel imo.
arguably, big trucks in the US are part of that niche; they offer a lot of high-end trims for something that was, a couple generations ago, strictly a work vehicle.
I feel like I have a schematic understanding of how transformer models process text. But I struggle to understand how the same concept could be used with images or other less linear data types. I understand that such data can be vectorized so it’s represented as a point or series of points in a higher dimensional space, but how does such a process capture the essential high level perceptual aspects well enough to be able to replicate large scale features? Or equivalently, how are the dimensions chosen? I have to imagine that simply looking at an image as an RGB pixel sequence would largely miss the point of what it “is” and represents.