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I could disagree with something you say, in particular about the great life that Messina Denaro lived (in my opinion, I live a better life, and I am not talking about some grandiose "living with clear conscience", like materially I mean), but overall I agree with what you write. I also agree that Messina Denaro, in the end, wanted to be caught.

In fact, in my original comment, I wrote, "Although still present, organized crime in Italy was severely curtailed...". It is still present.

From a cultural point of view, though, blatant extortions, homicides et similia would no longer be accepted either by the citizens and the politicians, even the corrupted ones; times have changed.
I mean, something like the assassination of Mattarella, the President of the Region Sicilia and brother of the current President of the Italian Republic, would be difficult to imagine nowadays. Or the killing of Generale Dalla Chiesa.

Similarly, a new season of terrorism, like the one that in the 70s and 80s terrorized, in fact, Italy, would be difficult to imagine nowadays; the "New Red Brigades" of the early 2000s looked like a group of out-of-shape, ideologically retired "nostalgics", more than a "serious" terrorist group (even if they were able to killed two minor--and I say minor from a political, and not human point of view--semi-political figures)

There is still a lot to do to eradicate organized crime, and as I wrote before, were it for me, I would use the iron fist again, and again. And again.
This seems to be an outcome of cheap energy, or mispriced energy.
The Disturbing Secret Behind the Most Expensive Coffee
Will this mean peace in Africa?
There's a new book coming called LAN Party, funded and in production:

A loving photographic celebration of the energy-drink-fuelled, furniture-rearranging, multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants

https://vol.co/product/lan-party/
My favorite thing about the dollar pizza is how you can see so many people happily walking around holding the distinctive paper plates, for blocks and blocks around each location.
I live in place with mild winters. The hot places with lots of AC tend to have mild winters. But I also have gas furnace that would be backup heat.

It would also make people getting AC think about getting more expensive low-temp heat pump.
I want what I wear to have meaning. The problem with symbolism is that it only matters if someone is paying attention. The longing for clothes is really desire for a social circle that cares what I wear, and events that require meaningful statements of fashion, and that the whole thing retains vital energy. The problem is intractable.
If the DA is known to not charge crime, then people will not report crimes that occur because they believe it to be a waste of time. In the year after a special election to replace a DA for being too soft, I expect the crime rate to go up as people test if the new DA will actually take it seriously this time.

If it stays up for several years then I would see a problem, but all I'm seeing right now is the expected result of a forced regime change.
I’m genuinely disappointed that it’s not done with -moz-element() on Firefox, but still duplicates all the content and just scales it down. Using -moz-element() has the potentially-useful side-effect that things like text selection will be visible in the minimap as well, as well as avoiding the problems of the duplication approach, such as that browser find functionality looks in the minimap too. (The minimap needs `user-select: none` which fixes some of the problems, but not all.)

I still hope that other browsers will eventually implement element(), along with cross-fade() which is also in the CSS Images Module Level 4 draft <https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-images-4/>.
Interesting to hear about refining of Aluminium. It is a very useful metal, and if it is electricity intensive to define, I wonder if it would fit the use of excess renewable electricity. A lot of times, UK has excess wind power than they can pass on to any grids that they idle the windmills. Same with countries like Morocco that gets a lot of sun, but not enough transmission lines to push them into(for a lot of geo political reasons, building out transmission lines seem to be a lot complicated).

If it could be as simple as “we produced this much aluminium from all the excess energy we had last summer! Go use it in residential construction, shelters, tools, whatever, heck even mounts for further more solar panels”
I find that angle very sympathetic, but it isn't clear to me at the moment if those people lack potential altogether; or, whether there are cognitive factors (e.g pertaining to education) which suppress that potential. If we could find the neurological basis for that potential, we could determine whether some people just don't engage it, or whether they lack it altogether and are therefore hopeless cattle. That basis might be the large size of the human pre-frontal cortex, which is shared by all healthy humans, so this is why I'm reluctant to dismiss the lack of potential.
On the one hand, all of the complaints in this article are things I hit and that drove me nuts back in the days of Win 95.

On the other hand, the Finder on my shiny new Mac is worse when measured on every dimension this article brings up. “Can’t find the drive letter without scrolling” turns into “we just display shit in random groupings that don’t match the filesystem and hide / and ~”.

Also, many filenames are intentionally displayed incorrectly.

Don’t get me started on the abomination that is docs.google.com.
I’m building that right now. It’s not great (it requires you to clone the repo and build your site from that) but it does currently support gallery and blog pages. Very alpha but it’s a pet project I’m enjoying. It also handles deploying to an S3 bucket, and purging a cloud front distribution (instructions for setting that up included too).

https://github.com/dclowd9901/posse
I recently found it's due to Cloudflare DNS. Cloudflare uses DNS over HTTPS and for some reason archive.today (russian) rejects it (likely anti-privacy measure).
This wasn't very convincing... it relies on self-reporting of dream content after waking when it's well known the waking mind doesn't have access to all the dream content, the imagery in dreams is ambiguous, and the dark tetrad people are anyway defined as deceptive.

It'd be really interesting if the AI processing of electrode data from the brain gets to the point the dreams of others could be objectively rendered in realtime.
A platform for managing and improving Open AI fine tuning training sets
I was working on another project and found it easy to fine tune, but difficult to manage and improve that training set over a many versions. Would love to hear if this is a problem you've had and if you would find something like this useful.
You actually end up with net negative carbon if you burn natural gas and use the energy to do CO2 capture (albeit just barely). This is because the carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds of a hydrocarbon have more energy in them than the carbon-oxygen bonds in the CO2 that is released from combustion.
Another useful datatype is a rope[0]. It is useful for using immutable/shared pieces that can build up to other longer compositions. In particular, an operation such as concatenation can be O(1) since that's matches the representation of a rope.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
I skip all of that and use a docker image with octane. Much faster and easier to maintain. No separate FPM container too!
>>My neighbour goes to Toronto daily and woof… he leaves at like 5am to avoid the traffic.

And therein lies the rub. The 401 and 403 (heck, even the QEW and most other major highways) were (and still are!) so congested that it was a deciding factor to moving away from Toronto.

The only other place that reminded me of my days in sitting endlessly in stop-and-go traffic on major highways in Toronto was LA, which is a different major North American city famous for its gridlock.
Your example is multidimensional: there's left, right, and forward. And it involves a cycle. :)

"Conservative" vs. "progressive" is a more useful concept than left and right, but still paints a limited picture. The meaning also varies greatly from person to person, making these words inadequate.

If we define conservative as "traditional," there is only one major objective: return to past equilibrium. If we define progressive literally as "progress," there are many directions to go, many paths to follow, many lines to draw. These are not balanced categories.
Jesus.... Visual Basic did this in the 80s and 90s just fine. Flash did it in the early 2000s.

It is doable, but it requires a stable runtime. Just the HTML/CSS ecosystem is too flaky, and HTML/CSSS is a poorly design system for this type of interactive systems/apps.
> In the annals of diplomacy, it would not be strange for Russia to have interpreted the near invitation and late-stage downgrade to a "will join" statement as something far from acquiescence. I think it was taken as quite provocative, just less so than an invitation. By analogy, I think a statement from the USSR that "Cuba will join our nuclear military defense pact" would not have been taken as acquiescence during the Cuban missile crisis.

I think it didn't matter what happened at the NATO conference Russia was looking for an excuse to invade and they were going to find one regardless of what was said.

The reason Russia invaded soon after was because NATO blinked when Russia dared them to, if NATO had given Georgia and Ukraine a MAP I think the situation would be very different today.
I wonder why he hadn't analyzed and mentioned Messi landing in US and how it is impacting Apple TV and MLS subscriptions.

This is could be a game changer because the leverage is on the player brand more than in the specific sport or team.
Scary, though I don't think the AI is the scariest part. It's the micro drones themselves
They go out of their way to make new words rather than borrowing. Or at least they used to. That may have started to change in more recent times.
No, this is incorrect. You can absolutely burn hydrocarbons, use the energy to do carbon capture, and end up with less CO2 in the air than when you started.

Compressed CO2 is still a lower energy state than the hydrocarbons, so you can get net energy out.

You couldn't end up with the same hydrocarbon that you started with, of course - that would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
I'd be interested to see how models behave at different parameter sizes or quantization levels locally with the Ollama integration. For anyone trying promptfoo's local model Ollama provider, Ollama can be found at https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

From some early poking around with a basic coding question using Code Llama locally (`ollama:codellama:7b` `ollama:codellama:13b` etc in promptfoo) it seems like quantization has little effect on the output, but changing the parameter count has pretty dramatic effects. This is quite interesting since the 8-bit quantized 7b model is about the same size as a 4-bit 13b model. Perhaps this is just one test though – will be trying this with more tests!
That depends on your definition I guess. They both do add a lot of nitrogen (and some carbon) to the atmosphere when ‘used’.
Wikipedia has additional context and analysis on the short feature and its impacts: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots>

The project's website is at <https://autonomousweapons.org>

And subsequent developments in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine since the film was released in 2017 show how the concepts illustrated are being realised in real-world conflicts, highlighting both capabilities and limitations of the concept, though I'd strongly suggest that the full potential has yet to be realised.

One interesting distinction is between the nature of precisely targetable weapons as with the slaughterbots, and stochastic ranged weapons, which date back to at least WWII and the long-range but only loosely-targeted attacks via V-1 "buzz bomb" and V-2 rocket bombs, or more recently through cheap and inaccurate rockets such as the Qassam used heavily by Hamas (see: <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/world/middleeast/gaza-roc...>), or the Russian S-8KL (see: <https://www.newsweek.com/russia-cluster-bombs-dumb-rocket-s8...>).

Precision is useful against specific military targets or civilian leadership. Stochastic attacks have long been used against general populations or forces, though the morale effects may well backfire unless the lethality is truly overwhelming.

The questions raised in the video about countermeasures and the consequences for use-of-force are interesting and I'd very much like to see further discussion of those topics if anyone is aware of any.
Am I the only one disappointed that this is just using an off the shelf device and a capture card as opposed to an actual protocol conversion
One ton = 100 gallons of gasoline’s CO2 emissions. Many technologies would be in the $100-200 per ton range if they were scaled.

So, if any of those technologies were operating at scale, we could add a $2 / gallon tax to gasoline (or a similar upfront tax on new ICE engines, based on expected emissions), and then the transportation part of our economy would be carbon negative.

We could add similar taxes to things like concrete, and other greenhouse gas emitters.

This is all eminently doable, but it would hurt oil profits, so politicians and propagandists keep making sure it doesn’t happen. Private entities voluntarily funding actual carbon capture is the only feasible way to break the deadlock at this point (short of overthrowing ~ 100 governments at once).
La Colombe makes a hell of a canned latte if you're looking for something like this stateside.
I don't answer that question anymore because I know the exact response it entails.

All that matters is that I'm happy as a migrant from the west, I go home to visit family/friends regularly and who are always stressed with long commutes and up to their necks in debt in cities that are overflowing with population growth. I truly worry for my nephews and nieces there, we've created a rough world for the kids. There's plenty of good things from my home country that I appreciate but for the average person life isn't that great considering their net worth on global scale.

When suicide rates are on par with Japan it's somewhat comical to see the city I grew up in on the "top ten greatest places to live" stats that come out every year.

If you took the median house price from where I'm from and put it into a basic savings account you could have $60k USD annually. That goes a very long way across most of the planet, is the house actually worth that much or is it a mass delusion? Know plenty who have gotten out while the going is good.
How do the players explain the income? Or is it just not noticed?
The song was actually about loading a ship with bananas.
For that price? I have no words.
The last episode of How To With John Wilson finds a guy who self amputated his penis and testicles in the late 1960s, currently working at one of those cryogenic dead people places.
It's used for monitoring, not the actual trading. The Erlang scheduler is fantastic, but it targets a context switch roughly every 1ms, it's obviously not suitable for HFT where a process must respond to a network event within microseconds.

https://hackernoon.com/successful-companies-use-erlang-and-e...

> Erlang is used as part of the real-time monitoring solution for this distributed trading system.

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-case-of-quant-tradi...

> Implemented a real-time monitoring solution for the distributed trading system using a combination of technologies (SNMP, Erlang/OTP, boost, ACE, TibcoRV, real-time distributed replicated database, etc) to monitor load and health of trading processes in the mother-ship and co-located sites so that trading decisions can be prioritized based on congestion and queuing delays.
>>If you invested in the development of say, Akron Ohio with the goal of tipping the scales and starting flywheel of metropolitan growth and your bet pays off not only will you be filthy filthy rich but you'll create brand new economic activity and real growth.

SF billionaires seem to be thinking along the same lines. If it worked for Las Vegas, perhaps they can make it work for a brand new SF-adjacent town.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-s...
Not about the content of the article, but there are few things as annoying as being hit with multiple popups preventing me from reading the article.

I guess I expect it on shadier parts of the internet. Seeing it on the New Yorker is just embarressing.
In the United States, vehicle fatality rates for pedestrians are lower now than in 1981, but they are increasing, and at a staggering rate. Likely due to a combination of more distracted driving, changes in road design, and larger vehicles with worse visibility.

https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safet...
In default configuration PHP identifies itself in response headers, but you can turn that off. People who know how to set up and administer web back ends generally do that from a security best practice checklist. So if anything PHP runs more sites than the number discovered crawling the web looking for identifying evidence.

Wordpress and similar CMSs, e-commerce platforms, and the Laravel framework give themselves away in other ways that take more work to hide. Likewise non-PHP back-ends have easy to see fingerprints in the headers and page source. There’s no reason to think PHP appears to dominate because crawlers can easily identify PHP but can’t identify other back-ends.

Banks and large companies with large COBOL code bases mainly maintain their legacy code, they don’t write a lot of new code in COBOL or RPG. And you won’t find COBOL powering web sites, which makes the argument irrelevant to the topic. The last time I worked on a big legacy back-end I was putting a web front end on it, using PHP and ColdFusion.
No but many of the other transplants here do, they seem to survive fine. It's very strange to see a 12yo kid who was born in the anglosphere being able to speak 3 languages fluently.
A practical problem with heat pumps is that they keep changing the damn refrigerants.

I've got an old heat pump and the refrigerant it used, R-22, stopped being using new systems about 10 years ago, and production was banned a few years ago. It is still legal to sell existing stock and to use it in existing units, but the price has skyrocketed.

I'd like to replace it, but the refrigerant that replaced R-22, R-410a, is now being phased out. Manufacture and import was banned starting this year. It is being replaced with R-454b. Systems cannot be retrofitted to use R-454b, so getting an R-410a system means getting a system with an already doomed refrigerant.

If I buy a new system in the next year or so, when R-454b systems become available, is that a refrigerant that should remain available new for the lifetime of the unit, or is it too going to get banned in 10 years?
Most industries that deal in refining or other heat-intensive processes are nearly hard to impossible to pause or stop. My understanding is that glassmaking plants, for instance, will literally solidify if they ever stop operation--making it an extremely rare occurrence. I wouldn't be surprised if aluminum refining is the same way--fighting entropy keeping things hot is a losing battle, so not very dispatchable.
There are a couple barriers:

What would you do with the CO2? Even if home CO2 capture was practical, sequestering CO2 gas is really hard.

A lot of the best chemicals for capturing carbon are very corrosive and dangerous to work with.

Your best bet would probably be making charcoal and burying it.
While the 5% number may be presently accurate, it is mainly for tiny Lithium batteries. Those from vehicles are of very large + high value, and will likely end up well above 95% recycling rate whenever it is time for them to be scrapped.

This also ignores the large number of those batteries that will be re-used in grid storage after being removed from a car, and eventually recycled.
I don't really get how this gets made. Instant cameras do not cost $500+
The people working on CO2 capture aren't idiots, they know that plants are a competing technology. People are pursuing CO2 capture because it is orders of times more efficient than plants in terms of space use, water use, etc.
Can completely agree. We went k8s several years ago and we battle the complexity continually.

Want to change the pod spec to alter a variable under Vitess? That will be restarting several thousands of pods.

DNS lookups failing as IPVS tuple collision?

API server memory balooning to OOM due to watch/list cm storm?

It all basically boils down to several FTE servicing K8s instead of building our platform. And on call is a nightmare.
The first page says:

"instead of being stored as bits on a disk the information is displayed as dots on a screen"

But the concept of bits has not been introduced.
A lot of it is sent as partially processed ore, but two major reasons for that are:
1) a lot of these mines are very new and
2) Australia in particular is _very bad_ at secondary industries. We have a long history of just sending our minerals and raw food ingredients overseas to be processed and are lacking in expertise.

Here is a recent article about this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/business/australia-lithiu...
Yes, it is extremely annoying. Since there isn't a lot of competition left in the prosumer space, DJI are shifting their autonomy SDK features upmarket into their "Enterprise" series drones.

But! There are workarounds. You can backdoor upload waypoints in DJI WPML / KMZ format to the Air 3 and Mavic 3 consumer drone series. Here's the waypoint XML format: https://developer.dji.com/doc/cloud-api-tutorial/en/api-refe... . This is actually surprisingly effective and works really well.

https://www.litchiutilities.com/litchiToM3.php offers an interesting workflow for this, creating flight paths using the Litchi app that's generally used for controlling drones that _do_ support the SDK and then importing them. This page also has the best documentation I've seen for the backdoor upload method.
ML is a discipline, like engineering, and AI is a product with certain characteristics, like a spaceship. Our engineering isn't good enough yet to build a spaceship.
Pretty sure I still got that.
Unfortunately they broke the illusion with all of those fancy free condiments.
I skip all of that and use a docker image with swoole. Much faster and easier to maintain. No separate FPM container too!
Ooh this project is among the most impressive ones I've ever seen. I saw it years ago and I still remember it (and want one) from time to time. Well done.
Used to love this living in MN (Gyro pizza with tzatziki sauce!), interesting to hear it's 'a style' at all. It makes perfect sense it's a popular tavern style, the small pieces are great for sharing (and long drinking sessions).
"3d sitemaps" - Wow, I did not know there was a time of the internet where people wanted and invested in 3d sitemaps! Sounds like a an interesting point of research for interesting UI experiments
I just switched to Vivaldi yesterday!

So far so good. The extension support is great.
> After all, LLMs are designed to reason equal to or better than humans.

No.

I doubt you would fully trust a LLM to replace high risk jobs such as lawyers, doctors or pilots such that when something goes wrong as it is used unattended, there is no-one held to account for it to transparently explain its own mistakes and errors.

It is just nonsense to suggest that such systems are capable of ‘reasoning’ when it pretends to do so and repeats itself without understanding their own errors.

Thus, LLMs and other black-box AIs cannot be trusted for those high risk situations over a consensus of human professionals.