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Whoops, I misread before my coffee and thought they were talking about capitalism generally.

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One critique of capitalism for housing, is that private housing doesn't get built in a bust cycle, or generally when it's no longer profitable to do so. The recent boom can be traced back largely to supply not recovering to pre-2007 levels, and the market being unable to make up for lost time. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

I am not aware of a housing market that is nearly all private that has built its way to affordability, short of massive economic collapse (e.g. '90s Japan) or some other catastrophic event.
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Recalling that a caste case about Cisco [1] has been flipped 180 degrees with no mainstream coverage, i take posts like these with a pinch of Salt. Cant imagine what being wrongly accused by a state agency for 3 years or more must have done to the real victim[2]

A Toronto prof asserting caste based discrimination about IITs is a little rich. 50% + quotas are mandated in admissions in public universities (IITs included) India public policies for affirmative action are on steroids and put even the most woke DEI American to shame.

Also, when did we start saying that educational institutions are about representations? If what he is saying is to be implemented in America, 1% of university students are allowed to be Indian and less than that are allowed to be Jewish.

Also, tiny tidbit, data reported about IIT bombay seems dated to 2005 and needs to be corrected

[1]https://castegate.org/
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCTMrAxSHqA
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Yeah, I think that consensus is part of the reason integrated cables took off in the USA. I think the biggest actual contributor was garage parking. Most drivers in the USA are parking somewhere secure where there's minimal risk of the cable being stolen. Whereas lots of EU drivers have uncovered parking or street parking where it's way easier to steal the cable.
Can you commit that to the looking glass readme.md - having skimmed their GitHub, it was unclear what it actually did.

Out of curiosity, what is the performance like? Presumably good for desktop use, but how about fps sensitive games?
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Thank you, I really needed to hear this.
I had a pretty cushy, 100% WFH job at a big company and was probably getting promoted to senior within the next year. I liked the company, I liked the position, I liked my team, I liked what I did, and I was making pretty good money.

I hated the location though, and I'd been renovating my house to get it ready to rent so I could move. My manager was fully onboard with me working from anywhere within the lower 48.

Then, after nearly three years of fully remote, they called us back into the office with the usual "collaboration is better in person" justification, but no data of course. My manager allowed me to continue to work remotely, but it was a hassle. I could feel that I was now at a disadvantage, and it was painful to deal with meetings where 80% of the team was onsite, in some conference room, speaking through outdated teleconferencing equipment, watching someone draw on a whiteboard through someone else's laptop camera pointed at it (seriously). I started making plans to leave, and lo and behold, they offered a buyout, which I of course accepted.

I firmly believe that remote is the future of work, but rather than adapting onsite processes to remote work, the processes need to be built around remote work. It takes time to do this, but it's clearly possible to achieve similar levels of productivity remotely as onsite, as evidenced by the many companies who were fully remote before the pandemic, and still are.

Employers are pushing back on remote work now, but with the USA's long-term structural skilled labor shortage and climate change bearing down on us, I would be very surprised if remote work doesn't become the norm (where possible) in a decade.

I'm currently working on a master's degree and I have enough money to coast for a while, so I'm being very picky. I'll only consider hybrid or fully onsite in specific geographic areas (west coast), and compensation has to increase significantly to make up for the increased hassle and decreased mobility. 95% of non-remote roles don't make the cut.

I faithfully respond to every recruiter on linkedin who contacts me with an onsite or hybrid position with the same line:

"Thank you for reaching out, but I'm only considering remote work at this time. Please keep me in mind if a fully remote position opens up which fits my skillset. Thanks!"

I would urge everyone who feels as I do about remote work to do the same.
A much more efficient implementation than mine at https://github.com/Futrell/ziplm

Instead of sampling strings character-by-character, this one adds random bytes to the compressed text and then decodes.
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Cold effects on range is more an issue of battery thermal management than efficiency. Cold reduces the cell voltage of the battery, it doesn't "steal" any energy. It's still in the battery, you just have to warm it up to get it out. Teslas in particular (ones built in the last 4 years or so) have pretty effective heat pumps to do this. Mine has taken me skiing more times than I can count, and while for sure range is a little lower (like, 15-20% or so) it's not "buy a separate car" lower.

Frankly I think you're overreacting and should go skiing in a Tesla a few times.
Simple drone that goes boom on contact seems much easier to build that one that can repeatedly attack with a melee weapon.
They really are something, right? My boyfriend had/has an open offer to jump into a career in scientific illustration if he wants to (but he's in love with his museum job). His neighbor has been doing it for decades and her work has been in many of the mass-produced scientific textbooks used at the high-school and college level - it was really cool to see some of her actual sketches and prints when visiting his parents a few years ago
"Only interested in remote only jobs" is a somewhat misleading phrase.

All other things being equal, I'd definitely prefer a remote job, or at least one that afforded some reasonable flexibility.

That said, I'd take a job with less flexible conditions for a significant boost in pay that makes up for the hour commute each way, and extra expenses such as transportation and lunch.
The contracts with cities literally refer to them as "pass-through fees", explaining that they "pass through" to subscribers. People act like this stuff is complicated or unknowable, but you're a Google search away from reading a franchise agreement. Most cities have them, and they're public records.
100% exactly. This is a very smart observation and is actually one of the main approaches I attempted first when tackling the creation of 'endless' mode. There are a few nuances and adjustments that would actually turn what you're suggesting into a somewhat viable approach, but I think in general you're on the right track with both the hypothesis and its limitations.

A lot of the early playtesting I did for 'endless' kept indicating, much to my initial dismay, that the continuity of the carryover white piece is pretty much essential. In hindsight, it kinda makes sense. Imagine playing Tetris or Temple Run but where every 30 sec you essentially start from scratch. I guess maybe that's why people are more likely to binge-watch a whole season of Breaking Bad back-to-back than a full season of Black Mirror?

If we didn't have that constraint for echo chess, we could've easily just saved the crowdsourced pre-labeled solvable levels into a big 'test bank' db, and randomly served one of them any time a player needs a new level to play. Think SAT/GRE questions that are all pre-curated beforehand but that get 'generated' at random for every participant.

Thankfully the ML classification approach I ended up going with completely sidesteps the carryover piece dilemma. It's like you said: you simply "generate [incl. carryover] and test for solvability". Plus it works, with 99%+ accuracy, and in real time. So I think we're good for a bit :)
Seems an appropriate time to mention a very different Cold War intelligence heist, when a KGB agent skipped the trailer entirely and simply smashed an AIM-9 through the back window of his Mercedes, marked it with a red flag as required by law for the drive home, and slowly mailed it in pieces to Moscow.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/fact-the-kgb-ship...
Former?! When did Evan step down?
I think it's actually both. Some people buy bigger cars for looks/status, and then others (esp. parents of small children) feel compelled to buy a larger, safer vehicle in response. In the case of minivans, they are choosing a less cool, but safer, vehicle than smaller alternatives.

Occupants of the largest vehicles on the road experience less than 1/10 of the fatalities than those in the smallest. We desperately need new regulations/legislation to address the vehicle size arms race.

https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf...
IMO the least-bad way to keep "objectionable material" out of the hands of minors is to focus on positive signals from devices, ex:

__________

1. Parents control what hardware the kids have access to. Perhaps not perfectly, but at least it is something the average person can see in meat-space and interact with without requiring special knowledge.

2. They buy devices for their kids that support a parental-lock feature, which (if enabled) causes the device to always send metadata outwards, such as HTTP headers. This metadata encodes some standard like "I'm a minor in Jurisdiction X" or even "I am currently approximately Y months old in jurisdiction X."

3. Online sites/services can comply simply by recognizing these signals and throwing up "denied" pages, without any kind of authentication and no need to build profiles of users or track activity.

__________

Sure, it's not perfect (kid borrows adult device, non-compliant sites, proxy sites that subvert the rstrictions) but it's better than nothing while avoiding massive rating-bureaucracies or forcing shitty backdoors into software. Also, the costs will tend to fall on the same people who want the feature.

Some pain-points will remain like whether to support a country where people under 28.75 years are not allowed to see ankle skin, but that's unavoidable complexity from the problem-domain--bad laws as opposed to bad software.
> As for your second sentence, the entire point of this article was that that's not true.

1. It was not my claim, I was just clarifying OP's claim.

2. "That's not true" is an oversimplification. The article is basically saying that the software vehicles have to prevent damage from fast charging generally seems to work and minimal damage is occurred. But it still cautions against fast charging in high temperatures for example
An AI quadcopter has beaten human champions at drone racing
Aren't assassinations targeted by definition? And surely this kind of thing is already doable if you're motivated enough, e.g. every smart phone is both an identity mechanism and a signal (thanks to all of the tracking/location systems) that could probably be used to guide a weapon system to an intended target. Hell, there was a kiwi engineer who built a cruise missile in his garage almost 20 years ago. I don't know that a killbot system offers much of an improvement over existing methods for the difficulty of execution, with the probable exception of, say, air superiority where the capability of autonomous systems will far surpass human ability. But even there we're probably two generations away from fully autonomous systems; the next generation seems to be robotic wingmen.

What really stops the average person from building these systems isn't necessarily the difficulty of the system itself, but rather the impossibility of getting the components. The drone is just a delivery mechanism for the ordinance, and good luck getting your hands on that.

Also, for said killbots to be anything other than a trivial threat (just jam the signal) they would need pretty decent onboard AI to function independently, which I guess is the point they're trying to make. But there are almost certainly far easier and more cost effective ways to get the same effect that don't rely on currently non-existent technology.
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Great point, thanks. Will update.
I think I get this. Some people just aren't tattoo people and don't understand the motivations of people with tattoos. I can relate to that. Which is why if I'm being smart, I'd be cautious trying to talk about tattoos.

Commenter is probably just a fish out of water, no judgement.
When China got very into environmentalism I became very cynical of it.
It seems like Chinese elites are just corrupting Western officials. Like the Soviets did in my parents time.
It's take-out pizza, shouldn't have a tip anyway.
Nice!!! Do you mind if I ask which pump you’re using? We’re already using the G6 cgm which she seems to like.
Lack of ability to configure a monitors behaviour has long been a pet hate.

- automatic display switching when an input is off (bad if you’re attempting to troubleshoot a non posting machine)

- LED flashing when the monitor is soft-powered off, barely noticeable during the day but blinding in a dark room - good luck sleeping

- OSD behaviour where it disappears to quickly, particularly in a soft-off status
- no ability to know what the firmware behaviour is until you buy it and test for yourself
> previous-gen A6000 GPUs

Just in case anyone hasn't surveyed the landscape lately, the distinction being made here is between "RTX A6000" (Ampere architecture; GeForce 30-series equivalent) and "RTX 6000 Ada Generation" (Ada architecture; GeForce 40-series equivalent) products. Nvidia is apparently convinced that it can get away with being almost as terrible at naming technology generations as the USB Implementers Forum.
> E.g. expanding "t" to "the" seems like a no-brainer, just like "st" to "something". Is there a minimal set of, say, 200-500 of these that could simply be turned into a "standard keyboard" that everyone could learn?

Take a look at Evans Basic English Code, a shorthand system based off of Phillips Code (for telegraphs). It's a little dated, but the most common words are quite useful for writing or typing.

https://archive.org/details/evansbasicenglis00evan

(use the pdf, the txt file is a bad OCR and practically useless)

Also useful:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
> Their setup is downright silly (never exceeding 60 miles an hour? I live very close to a highway with an 85 mph speed limit)

It was designed to emulate the median highway mile traveled for the purposes of gasoline consumption estimates, not to guess at what customers understand "a highway" to be, semantically. And it actually does a pretty good job. To first approximation, the kind of open-freeway-wind-in-your-hair kind of travel is noise. Most "highway" miles are on urban commutes.
Just to pile on, I have a 2017 Model X 100D that I've driven nearly 50K miles. EPA rating is 390wh/mi, and my lifetime average is 340wh/mi.

If anything, my dashboard range is overly conservative. I normally arrive at superchargers with ~5% more range than estimated, and I don't drive slow either. Typically 75-80mph on road trips.

The one point I'll give them is that when its below freezing, my range suffers (400wh/mi or so, which is still not much worse than the EPA estimate).
I personally would wait to show it until it's usable. The self-hosting docs say "forthcoming". I'm quite interested to learn more, whenever that might be.
A google search leads me to think Page 47 is a reference to the National Treasure franchise https://nationaltreasure.fandom.com/wiki/Page_47
I am one of the few people, it seems, that actually prefers on-site to remote work. I’ve never felt more isolated and commoditized than I have when working fully remotely.
My ICE has a 22/29 EPA mpg rating and a 15.3 gallon tank.

15.3 x 22 = 336.6

The car range starts at 260 and the light asking for gas usually comes on around there.

Can we just admit that EPA ratings are bullshit and we're just more accustomed to it on ICE cars?
Let me know how it goes!

It works without it, but it will struggle with those tasks (https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-procedures/tree/main/pr...) because of GPT-4's training data cutoff.

If you give it the right info (e.g "use Selenium without web package manager") it works without it. Sometimes it experiments and figures it out anyway.

As I use it, do I find lots of tasks it fails at just because of the training data cutoff, so that db is just meant to provide it with up-to-date documentation.

Running OI in `--local` mode will disable it though!
Since there is no code in this post, it explains the lack of any technical questions or responses to this research here despite the extreme hype in AI.

It only takes several experiments to re-implement the findings in this paper and find a special use case for them to get an edge over the current state of today's inefficiencies with deep neural networks.

But obviously, no-code means little to no interest here or reading this post.
Is this a venture capital fund donating money to nvidia in order to support open source? It seems like some wires have got crossed along the way here
You're doing it wrong. What you need is a good exhaust on that mini pc; then you can use Figma as an inefficient heater during that dead winter.
I don’t know what kind of ‘rug pull’ you think this is. Microsoft has built a lot of good tools for cross platform (e.g., VS Code), and this seems like more of a culling the herd type of move.

Visual Studio on Mac was mostly inherited and never was as good as Visual Studio (Windows). I was enthusiastic when they released it, but it didn’t live up to standards. There are better options out there.
My next job will be in an office. I like getting out of the house into the world, and I've never had as little engagement with a job as I do now.

I'll just make sure I don't choose anything with a bad commute, same as before the pandemic.
That's where the used market comes in: if you really, really need 200 mile range, when it drops below that there will be a market of buyers who only need 150 miles. That has the added benefit of making EVs affordable for more people.

ICE cars don't really lose range, but they do degrade faster in ways that EVs don't.
Privacy.com works like it does, giving consumer protections, because the consumer with the bank account is the customer. Plaid works like it does, letting companies take your money with no restrictions, because the company is the customer, and the consumer with the bank account is the product.

If a company offers you a service and that service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
> It's a tax that the municipality requires the ISP to collect.

Really? How does this requirement supposedly work to your understanding? What exactly would happen if Comcast charged the wrong amount of tax to some customers. Do the customers get a receipt so that they know they've paid the correct local taxes?

The reality is that your village taxes Comcast via this "franchise agreement". Comcast have no obligation to "pass through" that cost to their customers in your village, they choose to charge opaque and vague extra "fees" which may or may not be adjusted according to the tax, and you are (presumably inadvertently) now here arguing that a giant corporation is the victim because they have to pay taxes like everybody else.
How I know this is false is that NCTA's compromise offer was to quote customers the maximum possible fee (nonbinding) in lieu of tracking down the specific fee from the customer's zip code, which would allow them to pre-label retail SKUs, which is the problem they are trying to solve. I know "shitgibbon" is fun to write and Comcast is a convenient punching bag (I don't like them either), but they're not as straightforwardly the villain in this story as articles like these want to pretend.
Nobody's talking about Tesla's death (they're the most heavily subsidized US company today outside of military contractors/weapons manufacturers). But Tesla specifically has consistently ranked as one the least reliable brands of any automobile manufacturers. Even if you only look at EV manufacturers

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-repor...
I meant it in a more prosaic sense, for example the receptionist could put those who refuse in the bucket of 'potentially troublesome patients'. And receptionists talk a lot with other staff.

Or various other scenarios.
Sounds like either processes are waiting on each other, or the OS sucks.
We would sue them, and collect in state court. The contract literally stipulates the fees as "passed through" to subscribers. You've writing very confidently here, but, again: this is one of the rare instances where I have strong opinions about things because I've had to work with them. I have the impression that I've read a franchise contract, and you haven't. Am I wrong?
Given the limitations described, what accommodations or "grace" do you propose?
I'd be loathe to give up the extra bits of protection that a CC gives me against fraudulent charges over a straight debit account, myself.
You have to do 2-3 clicks to select “verbatim.” And there’s no way to set this as a preference or setting.

It’s weird. I suspect it’s more expensive to search this way or something because it’s such a basic feature that they haven’t done for a decade.
"I cofounded Figma in 2012 with Dylan Field and worked on Figma as CTO for the better part of a decade, leaving in 2021"

From https://madebyevan.com/figma/
You develop an intuition and general understanding. It’s like a carpenter sees a chair and can understand how it was built. He doesn’t have to remember every combination of pieces. With chemistry it’s the same. You just see it.
this was my take as well. about 3/4 of the way through, i was wondering when they'd make the point, or if there was a second page to the article.
Any charge of discrimination requires one of making normative moral assumptions: everyone ought to be equal, everyone ought be to be same, etc. Without such moral assumptions, it becomes a mere choice.
What else did you have in mind? Onerous rules against charming, delightful Nazi imagery?
Define better? Should it be the last 15 miles of downhill driving into Baker, CA? The last 20 miles of 85+ along a high speed interstate? The last 20 miles of city driving?

TBH, other cars tend to do some mystical formula that is some approximation of the above. There's a reason that they get called guess-o-meters.

I 100% understand that quite a few people prefer that, but it does come with some interesting downsides too.
Sure, but then VPN might be just as problematic unless it's a one that's not provided by a known VPN company. My point is that VPN is just a way to proxy your traffic to somewhere else and hide the content (but not its existence!) from your ISP. Anything else shouldn't ever be taken for granted.
Not to mention the bizarre comic book that the CEO paid for that was basically an insane dystopian vision of schools filled with taser drones and replacing warfare with kidnap-bots...
>If people are replacing their batteries every 8 years, we _REALLY_ need to optimize our grid and figure out a real solution to recycling EV batteries ASAP

We already have both figured out and have for quite some time, at this point it's just a combination of scaling up (for recycling), and political will for rapid expansion of renewables and bringing new nuclear plants online.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/redwood-materials-raises-1...
Doesn’t matter what they’re ranked, they sell every car built at margins higher than any competing automaker. All that matters is the balance sheet, opinions can be ignored unless materially impacting volume.

“This one weird trick.”