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> Anonymization is hard. Unless you have very accomplished cryptographers defining and implementing anonymization, I do not trust it. That basically means not trusting anyone but large governments and FAANG companies.

Huh that is pretty solid point, so anonymization is useless to those who are the most interested in privacy?
Misleading title. He didn't "develop" 120-year-old latent images. This was a developed, stable negative from which he made positive prints.

What's interesting is that 120-year-old image formats, in the form of a photographic negative, can still be read today. Can we feel confident that an Apple HEIC sitting inside an iPhone can be read 120 years from now?

That's why every year I take 50 or so photos and get them printed and bound in a photobook. (There are many vendors that do this, and it's not that expensive.)
Turn any situation into a meme – Dumbbe's Memer [video]
EPA range is calculated based on driving very conservatively.

Once you’re behind the wheel, you won’t feel like driving that way.

And superchargers are so plentiful so it’s not a problem on most routes. If it is a problem for your area, stick with gas.
They're cutting off the company's internet connection, which isn't significantly better than a personal connection. The entity doing this is not the web host, it's the ISP. I would be fine with a web host refusing service, but that is not what is happening.
The good news is that basically no one is going to be doing DC fast charging at home.
Google has been fighting against SEO basically from the beginning. For many years, you could see the difference with other search engines that had worse tech. In general, google used to do very well against SEO bots, for well over a decade.

Today, I think they are losing. Quality primary sources are often crushed by unusable websites, which understand google's analytics very well. If I make it hard to find the information, but I make it seem that it's the next paragraph down, my search results will improve!

Google itself is causing the enshitification of third party websites, many of which have paragraphs and paragraphs that are obvious spam. I'd take any videogame guide website from 2005 over the first page of google today
People that throw drinks at cyclists while driving aren't market.

The idea that you can reduce all of society to market forces is preposterous.

If you take you argument about 'social engineering' to it's logical conclusion, it would mean that we should not stop people from starting open pit fires in parks and causing wildfires, we should mandate vaccines, chlorinate water, have food safety standards and other idiosyncratic outcomes.
That’s fair, and you’re right. I apologize for being unclear. Perhaps I should have quoted it to reflect that my issue is with what gets called “agile” rather than what the practice is supposed be (and the former seems unfortunately common).
Yes. She's black.
No this wouldn’t work for exactly the areas where you start to have range anxiety.

You’d want to know if you can drive home or to a charger on the current battery level. So you’d only care about miles.

Whereas electronics it’s different because outlets are everywhere. So it’s mostly interesting and mildly anxiety inducing.
Electrical energy at the battery terminals per mile traveled?
Totally agree uncertainty is a problem - both when taking public transport and when using computer software - but in both cases it's surely better to primarily focus on ensuring operations aren't delayed unnecessarily, and only once you've got to a point that further optimisations become too difficult or expensive, turn to providing more accurate feedback on expected waiting times. I will say though accurately estimating waiting times (and esp. providing continual feedback on them) isn't always significantly less challenging than reducing them in the first place.
A priori the evidence is squarely in the 'zoonosis' favor, because that's how viruses spread before we ever had labs and there are thousands of examples for such spreading and very scant evidence for lab leaks.

But: this doesn't prove or disprove either and just like in the discussion about that superconductor, there is absolutely no need to commit to either hypothesis even if there is a historical pile of evidence, because that's not proof that this case is the same.

So I would advice anybody that really wants to jump to a conclusion to do so with the historical data in mind and for everybody else to just wait until there is conclusive evidence with the caution that such evidence may never be found. Ironically, the Chinese moved with such speed against the market that they may very well have destroyed the evidence that would have proven that they weren't directly involved. At the same time there is some support for the theory that the market itself wasn't the place where 'patient zero' got infected, and that still doesn't prove or disprove a lab leak.

People love to have someone or something to blame when there is a big problem, and with natural disasters we sometimes are in fact able to show how humans are a direct or proximate cause. But biology is super messy and even if there is a human cause at work here we may never know it, likewise we may never know for sure that it was a zoonosis.

If I had to bet I would bet zoonosis because the stats are in favor. But I don't have to bet so I'll just wait. I do hope that anybody that favors one theory over another will come forward to admit that they were wrong to jump to conclusions if there ever is a resolution, and that they will learn something from that. But they won't be much more or less wrong than those that backed the other side. Finally: there are some viruses that are known to have jumped from the animal kingdom to people many times in the past and in spite of hunting them for decades we still haven't found the reservoir. It could happen again tomorrow and there might be a breakthrough, but so far there is nothing. So absence of evidence doesn't prove a thing.
> It is even more complicated for a Tesla owner because the range displayed on the dashboard does not factor in the effects of temperature, driving efficiency or post-sale modifications. It is only when driver requests directions to a destination that the vehicle begins accounting for temperature and driving conditions.

That would be ludicrous. Of course we expect anything from a Musk-led company nowadays, but for some reason I still doubt it. ICE vehicles have been using historical data in their mileage estimates for tens of years (my parents' 2000s lower middle class car has it) and the point of Tesla during the Model S era was to be uniquely good. I can not believe that they would have intentionally included a woefully inaccurate range indicator in a time in which "range anxiety" was still a thing. No way.

Keep in mind that this "article" is pretty much entirely an ad to perpetuate the company's founding premise that EVs' range estimates are bad and you need them to help.

I don't believe it.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Microsoft represented an existential threat to many, many parts of the IT ecosystem every bit as real as dumping toxic waste into salmon breeding grounds.
Also in the US. I suspect there was something happened when the brand was acquired sometime back. I remember BK used to be better.
>It's like there was nobody in the room that had ever played the claw vending machine game and saw the futility of it

The claw games are deliberately designed to hit a certain payout ratio (e.g. only 1:15 or so, configurable by the operator, attempts will have the claw clamp tightly enough to retrieve a prize).

I would assume the CIA did not include this feature on their claw.
Many people, when given a hypothetical scenario, say what they daydream about doing not what they would actually do. It's a subtle brag saying something like "If my boss asked me to do X, I would quit on the spot!" In reality you might have bills to pay or worries about being able to find a new job quickly so you won't be so eager to quit when you have to put your money where your mouth is.

Me? Of course I would love being able to choose where I want to work from. The ideal would be a hybrid arrangement where I can come and go as I please to the office (although going to the office to sit in virtual meetings is silly).
> In some ways we may be trending back towards the days of AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/The Well, where you virtually hang out with "your people", and content that doesn't exist within your group basically doesn't exist at all.

TIL
I once helped migrate data from a 3+ TB Oracle database for a ticketing system. It was supposed to be shut down more than a year prior but the task kept getting passed around like a hot potato.

I can't imagine how much money we were paying in licensing fees and storage costs.
> If there is a "god", we are still nothing special, just more stardust...

How did you arrive at that conclusion? With or without a god, and barring any new evidence, sentient life seems to stand out as mind-blowing special and amazing.

> looking at the sheer size of the universe, supposing that we have any special place in it is sheerest hubris.

I don’t think it logically follows that our physical size relative to the size of the universe can tell us anything meaningful at all.
Meanwhile, Citigroup picked Obama's cabinet before he was sworn in: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/15/wiki-o15.html

Sometimes government efficiency is a symptom of a something worse than government inefficiency.
So: that was too difficult, I guess the original decision was right.
People in China cheat a lot.

Only way to survive under oppression is to get good at breaking rules.

And turns out once you start breaking rules, it’s a lot easier to keep breaking rules.

Also coal.
this paper by the university Waterloo go in similar direction
Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification
Method with Compressors
https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426.pdf

i post also this short video because correct few numbers who where miss calculated in the paper and show little less optimize and simpler implementations who still works well
https://youtu.be/jkdWzvMOPuo?si=K1VRtJ5BtqREa2mz
source code implementations of the video
https://github.com/Sentdex/Simple-kNN-Gzip
We're overdue for another one.
package.json says MIT license but license.txt says GPLv3
Do you have electric heaters too? I have an older car, basically zero difference with long drives, but the car doesnt heat at all until the engine gets warm.

There is a slightly higher fuel consumption in city driving, because it takes longer for the engine to heat up, and the idle rotations are usually higher when the engine is still below optimal temperature.
The headline is based entirely on the two graphs in the center of the article, which show that in most temperatures, observed range in Tesla S/Y is only 50-60% of the dashboard estimate.

The two graphs also show that Tesla pretty much uses the exact EPA estimated mileage for the dashboard estimate, regardless of temperature - it's a straight line. While the two graphs at the bottom show that the Mach-E and Bolt have much more intelligent dashboard estimates that account for temperature.
In the one in the third column of the second row, "Drawing Molecules" [1], the second box shows how to go from a structural representation to a skeletal diagram. The third step of that is to remove all C-H bonds, removing both the H and the bond.

But in the example given it retains a C-H bond. Why is that?

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62185f3b81809a6fd03dd...
In the context of hospitals waivers are not that voluntary, at least in the US and Canada, since doctors and nurses can't be forced to treat people if they really don't want to.

And there is a decent chance in many hospitals that they will at least drag their feet, since they would be exposed to much greater liability.

I know this situation specifically is not quite a waiver, but it will likely have some effect on hospital staff's attitudes.
I live in the twin cities and have routinely made it to Duluth with 50% left (153mi)in the MY LR. The thing that’s not mentioned that has a dramatic effect is air resistance-the difference between 65mph and 75mph is startlingly and not shown in this data. I’ve also gone from duluth out to the middle of red lake in -20 F flying around 80. let me tell you, that was extremely poor efficiency!
the full picture never seems as news worthy as cherry picking sensational data. is narrow analysis intentional? i always wonder.
> IMO Russia had two options

Sounds like a choice to me
How many Gods are there? Which ones truly exist and which ones truly don't? Why is it so? How would you prove both sides of the postulate?
> the longer time that passes without finding a natural source outside the lab the more likely it is that it was created in the lab.

This is not correct. It may well be that the evidence existed but was lost.

The idea that biology will just sit around and wait until we catch up with it is fundamentally mistaken. Some things happen just once and that's that. Some things happen all the time and you can observe them as they happen. Some things leave ample evidence. Biology is not a static system, it isn't a computer program and it isn't a piece of hardware. Your 'bug' may simply not be reproducible even if it in fact did occur just once.
HHS was authorized by statute to make a specific set of rules to address a specific issue. When we refer to "The Rule", we're referring to HHS's rulemaking process, which is governed by the statute, which spells out what the rule is about.
I think I actually paid money for similar printed handouts. I think it was for SAT/ACT concepts or some college course.

How naive I was back then.
Yes Tesla's do adapt to conditions and recent driving. Both the navigation and the energy graph display very accurate predictions of range. They also display a nominal number doesn't vary for conditions. This nominal number is useful for comparison
So 'crypto usecases' summary:

- Avoiding the law.

- American banking is much worse than most of the world's (but not compared to crypto's risks of 'being your own bank'), especially for international transfers.

These are not very great use cases.
> Everybody advertises the EPA numbers, and that's generally what people use when buying new vehicles.

Tesla has been gaming EPA numbers:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-ba....

To be fair, the EPA's rules have basically left the door open for them to do it. In addition, their customers tend to be very tolerant of their product quality issues. Other automakers don't enjoy such latitude.
I've been fully or nearly fully remote for over a decade. My prior role, we traveled for things (pre-covid) and would meet up in the office maybe a week to a week and a half (total) each quarter. We would also work with customers on site at their location maybe a week a quarter. Otherwise, fully remote - team widely distributed.

My current role - classified as and fully remote. I made an effort to go to the office (while on vacation) to meet my boss and a peer (at the time) since I was in the metro area they worked out of. I've also met a few more people for the first group get together in 1.5 years. That was for two days.

Given the teams I work with are distributed, given most open work spaces are NOT friendly to getting engineering work done. Why sit somewhere (not at home/place of choice) if just on slack or google meet and headphones in all day?
I have used Private Internet Access for a number of years. But as I do not see others mentioning it, I worry it might not be as good as I think.
It isn't a service. It's just a SKU in their online store. There is nothing different between buying that and buying things separately besides price.

Unlike iPhone Upgrade Program, where it charges your credit/debit card monthly, they charge a full price of the phone on synchrony account and report that to credit agencies.
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The idea with an electric car is you just plug it in every night automatically in your garage – if you're lucky enough to live in a house - every morning it's ready to go. You never have to think about it. Trip driving is different. Tesla made it easy where you can basically drive virtually anywhere in the US and they'll be a supercharger or two along the way. If you live in an apartment or a condo with no electricity then it's harder. You're also stuck with idiots saying you can't add an electric line because it'll burn the place down or something.
We thought it wasn’t an option until we tried. Just need a long cord and the right parking place. I would agree most don’t have it though, for now.
I'm not quite sure what happened in my brain when I read the title (probably some kind of lost in translation, translating between my mother tongue and back again), but I didn't expect a spinning device.

But when I saw the first picture I immediately understood were this is going. Actually it's quite clever - as is the subliminal self-irony of the authors. The Swivel Chair Attack made me laugh harder than it should (someone here in the comments already rightfully called for an ig nobel price for that). And still this idea might be a unconventional but working solution.

It's kind of a refreshing read.
Precisely. If there was any universe where the headline were accurate (half the EPA range!), this would absolutely not be the first we've heard of it.

But in the real world, most Tesla drivers get within a reasonable error rate of the EPA rated range, and if they don't, they can understand why using the car's very detailed consumption app (e.g., driving fast, lots of quick accelerating, temperature).

Articles like this seem engineered to entice people predisposed with anti-EV or anti-Tesla bias.
Also known as a blueprint.

One of the easiest photographic printing mediums. Generally quite stable too.
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I'm having trouble understanding how they are anything other than taxes. They're called "pass-through fees" because the underlying contracts (or, in some cases, statutes) set the expectation that they'll be passed directly to the consumer. They're fees governments charge to their residents, through service providers, for services the government does not itself provide. They're not even tolls. They're taxes.

I like taxes! I'm a Democrat! But I think these particular taxes are pretty shady.
They spent $8 billion to buy Skype in 2011.
If there is a god, all aliens must be human.

"God made Man in His image", therefore all beings that are aware of a God must be human.

And if Christ died for all men, He must have died for all aliens as well. So ... "Were there all those alien Christs who died for all their respective aliens?"
its really not though. Detection is fundementally different. Neutrinos have no electric charge. the only thing you have to work with is the weak interaction. you have to literally wait for the low probability event of a neutrino-neuclei collision or detect by a second hand effect.
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I don't know where you're getting "a good half of the video", it barely talks at all about his own personal experiences of CCS. It mostly talks about the history of the plugs, discusses Tesla's process of opening up NACS (and his previous reservations on it), describes how automakers are switching to it, talks about the slow roll out of CCS, talks about how Tesla chargers and 800V cars might not play nice for a while, and then talks about V2G. Could you give me some specific timestamps where he's spending half the video talking about these negative experiences? Which few sections are mostly his experiences? I've seen the video a few times before and just re-scrubbed/watched at 1.75x and I didn't see much of his personal experiences at all.

He does briefly touch on charging networks should work on reliability and just having a new connector won't necessarily improve reliability, but I'm not disagreeing with that. I've got no doubts those who do have bad experiences legit had bad experiences, I'm just suggesting it's often regional and not like every non-Tesla station is plagued with non stop problems. And given his own video publications it seems like his area and the places he traveled had reliable chargers. Maybe most of the issues are on the West coast. Either way that's not half the video nor is it really him talking personal experiences.

Also, kind of funny you're suggesting I watch a video when you refuse to watch one that rebuts your own points. You might want to re-watch both videos if you want to understand his experiences with EV charging. He's got a few of them, and they're generally not filled with routinely bad experiences.

Also, go check out Out of Spec Reviews. They've got a number of videos rightfully critical of the charging networks and several videos showing lots of them failing all at once. But notice how in most of his videos with CCS cars, the experience is almost always rolling up to a station with empty ready to use dispensers, plugging in, and getting a charge. And it doesn't get brought up like some "woah, its actually working this time!" No, instead he'll mention " these are some great Delta units" or "these ABB chargers are top notch" if anything gets mentioned at all. So obviously his experiences, which this is a guy that seems like he's practically on the road every day in multiple different EVs, seems like it's mostly that they work but with some big examples of them not.
Every publicly traded company will eventually go through this character arc. They scale as big as possible then the need for share price increases will make them increasingly exploitative and force them to offer lower value to users until they fall into disgrace and are replaced.

Repeat once per generation, to infinity
>stop giving a crap about what other people are doing.

This is only acceptable for things that don't have a network effect. If svn is the universal standard, then that forces me to use svn.
I believe the article states differently,

> Until very recently, autonomous drones took twice as long as those piloted by humans to fly through a racetrack, unless they relied on an external position-tracking system to precisely control their trajectories. Swift, however, reacts in real time to the data collected by an onboard camera, like the one used by human racers. Its integrated inertial measurement unit measures acceleration and speed while an artificial neural network uses data from the camera to localize the drone in space and detect the gates along the racetrack. This information is fed to a control unit, also based on a deep neural network that chooses the best action to finish the circuit as fast as possible.

And here's a video that seems to have been uploaded today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiataDpGIo
Is there a way to combine steno typing w/ a standard keyboard so that you can seamlessly switch?

In the current setup there are too many collisions.
We have both a Model Y (late-2020) and Model 3 (2022), and the 50-60% estimate definitely reflects my experience with the MY. Not so much the M3.

I chalk it up to doing most of my driving (90%) on California freeways going 70+ mph most of the time. Understandable that the range is reduced since the batteries are being expended more, but this issue is definitely the biggest complaint I have with our Teslas so I'm tracking this story closely.