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> This geometric picture works well for units such as length and volume that have a spatial geometric interpretation, but it is less clear how to apply it for more general units. For instance, it does not seem geometrically natural (or, for that matter, conceptually helpful) to envision the equation {E=mc^2} as the assertion that the energy {E} is the volume of a rectangular box whose height is the mass {m} and whose length and width is given by the speed of light {c}.

I wish I could tell a friend that I've had the exact same thought, but I'm sure no one would believe me. And I have no friends anyway.
How much data do I need to download before I can do a protobuf request ?
RLHF is a popular candidate, but the focus is more on "helpfulness" and "safety" -- I don't think it necessarily improves LLMs on reasoning benchmarks
From my own experience, keep it. Maybe replace paracord with nice chain.

It prevents from losing the wallet in the first place, once it is lost it's a much bigger problem...
Unity is my favorite developer tool. I think it is fantastic for both prototyping and production. I am (used to be) a VERY strong advocate for the platform. My current product won't be affected by these changes.

I'm still absolutely and 100% against these changes and am lobbying internally for us to explore different 3d engines not because of the price changes but because Unity has announced, loudly, they do not respect their own user agreement and may change it retroactively(!!!!!) at anytime.
Epic will never have a monopoly as long as Steam exists. They aren't complete fools here, they realize this but are aware that even having a slice of that massive pie is enough to fuel numerous positions in the future.
Twitter threads already were difficult to read. Now it seems I don't get to read anything without an account at all?
Beneath the veil of binary territories, in a subtle symphony of stillness, sevenfold zeros rise and conjure a calm masterpiece. As if celestial beacons in an ethereal night sky, they materialize in the form of an arcanum with heptadic serenity, with divine grace.
Or in Canada, BC. Things like meat can be priced in $/lb or $/100g in the same cabinet. Makes the mental math tricky and you can think something is cheap when it is not.
> While Google is not admitting any fault as part of the settlement, the company did agree to several other terms in addition to paying $93m. Those conditions include being more transparent about its location tracking practices; notifying users before location information is used to build ad profiles to target specific people; and getting approval from Google’s internal privacy working group before making any material changes to privacy.

That last line is oddly reminiscent of the government delegating safety audits to the airplane manufacturers themselves.
In my experience shrinkflated products already use inferior ingredients, so it's a very useful signal that should be boosted, not eliminated. So putting a warning is a good thing, but shaming is not.

To develop the idea further, most grocery shopping should move online, so I could trivially filter out products with shrinkflated packaging, containing palm oil, nestle brands, etc.
I got a 4A recently (2 yrs ago now?) since it is supported by grapheneOS. My previous phone lasted 13 years, I intend to use this almost as long, or until there is a major hardware failure(failure with mainboard - not battery or screen or fixable issue). Next one might be a pinephone or fairphone if it is any good by then.
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It works fine for years (maybe even decades); however, eventually you end up as a has been wondering where it all went wrong. It happens to every company at some point. They still exists, but they are no longer the dominate force they once were.

Bezos has even said it will happen to Amazon at some point. Jobs said it happens when a company starts to be ran by sales/marketing instead of product.
They should ship parquet, supports predicate pushdown and is dramatically more compact, while you can't get row level data, it's great for analytical queries.
I don't think you get it yet.

If I pour water into a cup and the line says 100 ML there's 100 ML of water. That measurement of 100 ML is a descriptor of how much water that is.

Inflation is a descriptor of how much prices have increased.

If we measure the line a second time and it says 120 ML then the water level has increased (i.e. inflation occurred). But why inflation occurred is not know _just_ by measuring the water level.

If firms increase their prices by 10% then the firm is causing inflation (prices have increased). If said firm also gets a 10% increase in their profits then we people would say inflation is entirely driven by profits (although probably strictly inaccurate). However at no point does "inflation" cause something. Inflation is _just_ a measurement.

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Sticking with the incorrect math, if your prices go up 10% and your profits go up 10% you are the cause of inflation.

If your suppliers increased their prices by 10% so you increased your prices 10% then your profit goes up 0% and if your suppliers profit went up 10% then they're the cause of inflation.

This second example is why people are getting upset. Companies are all complaining they need to raise prices "due to inflation" but since their profit margins are just getting better people are suspicious of how much of the price increase is dictated by their supplier's price increases versus greed (value pricing).
This why Bloomberg and friends make money. They're a cartel but they at least do both making all this data work together and also transcribe stuff that is written in English into structured data etc (hence their interest in AI)
Yes. Truth be told for any engine you'll be more limited by the size of your art team then anything else.
>Everything you said is true but it is also true for every other industry. Do you not think companies selling computer RAM for example not have the same motivations? How is that industry much less frustration to deal with than what we are discussing here?

The main difference between RAM sticks and the travel industry is that I don't get to travel around with the electrons in a RAM stick and experience the differences in signal quality and speed, but when traveling, we spend time inhabiting the products we are paying for, and we can feel the differences in quality and speed of our travel experiences.

The subtle differences between RAM sticks have real effects on the performance and longevity of a computer system, but are much harder for a human to perceive, so we don't typically don't focus on them.

>If we can solve the issue with lack of clarity of what is being offered then we can build a mapping of competitor A offering to competitor B offering but this is why I say its easier to send people to Mars.

The bigger idea I was trying to get across is that a competitive market system is not going going to be conducive to solving the problems that arise inside a competitive market system. You already intuitively know this, as you elaborate on, but since this system is as ubiquitous as the very air that we are breathing, it is not so obvious that it could be the root cause of the dysfunction we are talking about.
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Pixel 4 or Pixel 3? Your comment mentions both.
They wouldn't even notice 100'000 Euros and so the fine would be useless as a tool of discouragement. The laws have been specified so that they scale with the size of a company. Tiktok it's a big company. They make a lot of money. They can afford the 345 million. They will notice that.

So the fine seems appropriate to me.
I've mostly used open source by ripping out the actual IP from whatever assumptions and encapsulations they've got it welded to. In the end I have something different from what they had. I'm not interested in aiding and abetting the conflation of the actual value of the project with the glick it's embedded in. And I don't think they want to switch their project to accomodate my needs and interpretation.

I write a lot of embedded code so I need everything short and simple. And 'borrow' mostly format interpreting code, protocol generators etc. Not a lot of applications, certainly not in their entirety.
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I used to think this, but then I talked to a doctor friend and they explained that most of the dog bites they see in their hospital come from pit bulls with good owners. The dogs had never acted out in the past and were loving family dogs, until something snapped and out of seemingly nowhere the dog attacked someone.

The statistics on dog bites in many countries are also pretty clear that some breeds, like pit bulls and German shepherds are responsible for a disproportionate amount of attacks on humans.

So while the great majority of pit bulls are loving dogs without any aggression, I would never take the risk of owning one.
Unreal is technically orders of magnitude ahead of Unity, and they have around 4000 employees spread across multiple continents. And I'm referring to the entirety of Epic, so that's also the Fortnite teams and everybody else. Unity, by contrast, has about 8000 employees. Many companies seem to be hiring far more employees than they realistically need - often to the point of their own detriment, and I don't entirely understand why. Even for successful companies like Google, it seems unlikely that they need anywhere remotely near 180k employees.
There's a simple trick to encode it: if there are less than 32 pieces, invert the bitboard (easily decoded since boards can't have more than 32), while if there are 32 pieces flip the board vertically (easily decoded because white pawns can't be after black pawns with no captures).
I like the bitboard inversion idea. (Requires flipping logic as well from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37526484, since 32 is a special case.) Note that the en-passantable pawns and castle-able rooks came from options that were unused in my first pass (linked comment). I could use 0x1 as "castleable rook or en-passantable pawn, determined from where it is" and then store 32 integers with 13 options in 119 bits[1], saving 9 bits. But I'm kinda attached to the simplicity here.

(The 16->32 was edited as you wrote this comment.)

[1] log(13^32)/log(2) = 118.4
Target rates aren't published very frequently but interest rates themselves are typically daily or better.
> provide financial and logistical support to worker organizing efforts

When looking at American unions, the UPS negotiators look reasonable compared with the writers’ guild or UAW. The latter (mostly the writers’ guild) seem to be killing their hosts, cannibalising long-term economics for short-term gains.

Do you see a path forward for American labour that is less adversarial? Or is this endemic to labour unions and shareholder management?
> if there are 32 or fewer bits set, then it is white's turn; if there are 33 or more bits set, then it is black's turn and you can negate the bitboard prior to determining which squares are occupied.

This doesn't quite work because if there are exactly 32 bits set, inverting it leaves 32 bits set. You could fix this by marking all pawns belonging to the player who's turn it is as capturable via en-passant (if a player has no pawns left, at least 1 piece has been captured, so inverting the bitboard works).
Agreed that this is pretty terse. The sequences they're talking about are called Cauchy sequences [0]. A sequence a_i is Cauchy if for any epsilon, there exists an N such that if m and n are both greater than N, then |a_m - a_n| < epsilon. A classic example, suppose your space is the set of rational numbers, and consider the sequence a0 = 1, a_1 = 1.4, a_2 = 1.41, ... a_n = sqrt(2) up to n digits after the decimal place. You can verify that this is a Cauchy sequence, successive points get arbitrarily close to each other. This means the rational numbers are incomplete, because this Cauchy sequence of rationals doesn't converge to a rational number. It's the real numbers that forms a complete space.

Completeness is required for nice results like the spectral theorem for self-adjoint operators [1] to hold, which is pretty essential for Quantum Mechanics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_sequence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_theorem
Yet if society allowed heinous acts, it still makes sense to blame those who commit them. Just because the punishments are removed, or even the acts encouraged, does that give individuals the right to defer the moral obligation to act correctly. Even when governments FORCE you to do heinous acts, we still hold individuals accountable for having done them (Nuremberg trials).
Ah, well, the UK. The UK is special.
garmins are ok now too. Imo, their button offering like forerunner 245 is superior to touch interface of samsung/apple, gives some vibes of pebble
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Wasn't the USB4 controller on the newer Pro models on die? Should be the same used by Apple Silicon Macs
>Why would this benefit society?

To put factual and open information out there of how companies consistently just fuck with all of us and get away with every little thing they can because "profits!" and "their duty to investors!". e.g., the biggest lies our societies ever came up with
Widespread availability of private and service-based self-driving vehicles is the wild card in all of this. By making long-distance transportation much cheaper (both in dollars and time), it effectively shrinks the distance between remote and desirable areas. The impacts of remote work, widespread use of delivery services, and self-driving cars are still actively working their way through the housing situation.
> One could make a case for splitting the data collection activities from the ad sales business as part of an anti trust case. Or pass regulations and laws to that effect.

That would be a net negative for privacy, because it would mean more parties having access to your data (without your consent or even knowledge). And given the state of security in ad-tech aside from Google, that means the chances of your data getting breached and leaked would increase exponentially.
I needed a new mounting plate for my Nest Protect Smoke + CO Monitor. I was out of warranty and Google support gave me a run around saying they don't sell that part and I would need to buy a whole new Nest Protect. After complaining a bit they caved and sent me.... a whole new Nest Protect. How can you be so against providing spare parts? There are only a few required for the whole product.
> Been this way since the 60s

Market share for unionised automakers is falling. (Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla.)
More recently Tim Thompson has been creating interactive art installations. I got to work with him at some installation shows in the bay area https://timthompson.com
Geez, how long do electronics last?

Only 3 years?
> but it does work

Only on some gzip implementations, e.g. the one shipping with many Linux distributions. It doesn't work on macOS, for example.
Despite USB 2 being universal once upon a time, it didn't stop tech improvements at all.
Now with 20% more**

** than a box with 20%less no change in package size required. This was on a thing of Oldspice antiperspirants.
> I hope nobody would ever write something like that into an app...

I have got some bad news for you...

Not directly API related, but I remember supporting some land management application, and a new version of their software came out. Before that point it was working fine on our slow satellite offices that may have been on something like ISDN at the time. New version didn't work at all. The company said to run it on an RDP server.

I thought their answer was bullshit and investigated what they were doing. One particular call, for no particular reason was doing a 'SELECT * FROM sometable' for no particular reason. There were many other calls that were using proper SQL select clauses in the same execution.

I brought this up with the vendor and at first they were confused as hell how we could even figure this out. Eventually they pushed out a new version with a fixed call that was usable over slow speed lines, but for hells sake, how could they not figure that out in their own testing and instead pushed customers to expensive solutions?
If this is his favorite API, he should check out patent office gazettes
Any scheme that does not make allowance for illegal moves or invalid positions is not suitable for purpose, IMO. In OTB situations players can make mistakes that no one catches. These illegalities become part of the official record of the game.
let's recall that lightning came out before usb-c, because vendors within the USB-IF didn't want to upgrade their devices to replace micro-b with something more expensive and were stalling the acceptance of the standard.

for everything you can say about apple, they have at least been consistent on connectors, some would say to a fault. when they deprecated the 30-pin they promised that iphone (not ipad, not laptop) would remain on lightning for 10 years.
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I live out in the sticks, and the whole reason I invested in a GPS/LTE collar for my dog is because there are broad swaths where he'd only be in range of an apple device if he had line-of-sight to it. Considering his favorite exploring path is the creek bed set 8 feet below grade, that means he'll just disappear.

I'd love to own the data from that collar, but I also looked into the BOM of doing this, and (considering what my time is worth doing the full-stack embedded electronics thing) it was absolutely cheaper to buy it and lose access to the data. It's a lot cheaper than fully fencing 2.5 acres out in the country.
> For the affected people it makes sense because now they can drink water

Only the rich people. It does nothing for everyone else.
Mine is a Pixel 4a. The Google comment from the article was talking about Pixel 3. Both phones had the same 3 year support, so it applied to my case too.

This is the article:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxpx/google-is-forcing-me-...
okay, but why post that as a reply to a complaint about how GPUs can't be used and how an "i7" is not one specific CPU? You almost certainly wanted to just post that as its own comment instead of a reply to anyone.
Something about micro-needles sampling cellular interstitial fluid in the epidermis, and correlating measurements there with blood sugar (and other things).

The hangup was developing the manufacturing hardware (i.e. chemistry robots) to make the things. Which has nothing to do with the IP, but it's all the effort surrounding the actual invention that kills a startup very often.
> There’s no personal obligation on what you believe, just don’t be a jerk and tell people that they can’t exist.

Can you clarify on this? This seems contradictory to me.
Because it is a recreation of classic 0.30 that used to be on the minecraft website, which did not have survival
It doesn't have every engine on the planet [0] but it's a pretty good place to start.

[0] It's missing lots of engines that are popular in the Python and Rust communities.
> The iPad Pro used a separate USB controller

The iPad Pro has used M series SOCs with an integrated USB controller for years now.
There is never a pawn at the 8th row, one might "insert" an en-passant row into the board.
It's a ZIP file, so you'll want to use unzip, not gunzip.

Ubuntu's version of g(un)zip actually does tolerate ZIP inputs though; for that usage, just omit the '-d'.
A carbon embodiment tax is way easier.

The reason we don't have one is the embodied carbon tax would have to be 100,000x higher for a Rivian EV than it would be for a smartwatch, while superficial 20th century environmentalist doctrine concentrates on the relatively negligible portion of "e-waste".
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I've never stopped to question the absurdity of the gov data shopping cart thing. WHY!?!? Is there some justification for that?
It's simple - most developers aren't using libraries for their personal benefit, but as a part of job, where the company benefits from the library.

We can use truck drivers as an analogy. Those who work a job (i.e. aren't owners-operators) aren't paying for toll roads and bridges out of their salary. Rather, it's the company which covers the cost of using the infrastructure.
Loading into a new world takes a long time, but once I'm in there, I get great performance.

That said I'm in the "dozens of hours" bracket and not the "thousands of hours" one, so maybe I just haven't hit that yet.
Ashrae is there to give management cover for poorly=cheaply ventilated buildings.

Some decades ago I worked in a Bell Canada data center which had Ashrae minimum air quality. I found another job.

Employer owned buildings are vulnerable to ventilation penny pinching. Employee productivity does not enter the equation.

Schools are also problematic, especially with more bodies/ft². With Covid, some parents equipped their kids with CO2 monitors. Some cash strapped boards tried to ban them.

Commercial landlords with multiple tenants are less inclined to cheap out on ventilation if they want to retain tenants.
It is already open information that pretty much every seller of everything in the whole world tries to sell for as high of a price that they think can get.

And that purchasing power of currencies will go down over time.
Good historical overview of vim and its origin. I remember using vi for the first time at my university because emacs would slow down to a crawl on our unix clone system especially just before our computer science homework was due, and I was forced to switch from Emacs to vi. During that time, Amiga was my home computer, but I don't remember seeing it on Amiga. Most of my time was spent at school on a Wyse VT-220 clone terminal. Since then, I've tried Elvis, nvi, and few other clones until settling with vim much later in life when Ruby on Rails came onto scene.
> Ultimately there's no alternative to Unity right now as an engine.

Depends on the game - the majority of Unity games can be done in Godot, as far as I can tell, because they're simple indie games with fire-sale assets (or even free assets) from itch.

Unity is not making the revenue they need, because their "popularity" is on free-as-in-beer games which no one is going to pay for anyway. It's just an added sword into their side that the majority of devs who use unity can switch to Godot with almost no difference to their (devs) revenue.
> Google has extended security updates to 5 years for the newer Pixels. That's fairly decent, given that each one is only on the market for ~1 year.

Apple has been supporting iPhone models for 6 years without any fanfare about it. iOS 15 supported the iPhone 6S, which was 6 years old at the time. iOS 17 that just got announced will only now drop support for the iPhone 8 released in 2017, 6 years ago. At certain points 7-year old phones have received all updates.

Google's excuse about driver and firmware support does not and should not apply to the Pixel, which is a first-party device. I applaud Google for getting better here, but the linked article and the general reality of the Android ecosystem continuing to be a shitshow is really inexcusable in the face of their primary competitor doing the right thing for over a decade, quietly and competently.