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> 99% or "practically zero" are hugely overexaggerated claims but yes it's an improvement

A lot of cars support "one-pedal driving" where only regenerative braking is used. The brake pedal is literally just used in case of emergencies. As this becomes the default on more models, yes, I fully expect we will achieve that "practically zero".

I'm wondering what can be done for the tires (not just for EVs, also for ICEs and especially for heavier vehicles), where I think tire manufacturers ultimately have the opposite incentive (if your tires shed more material, they have to be replaced sooner, which increases their recurring revenues, so maybe they didn't spend too much R&D in that direction....)

> That's an awful reason to not talk about something. Yes it's an improvement but switching to EVs won't magically eliminate car related pollution in cities (not even remotely close to that) which is something some people seem to believe (and they really shouldn't)

I really have to disagree here. EVs are silent (so silent they had to be fitted with a noisemaker to make them more detectable by pedestrians), they don't pollute the air with combustion products make the air terrible (some of this pollution is happening elsewhere when fossil fuels are used - that's on a downward trend and I want to argue it's still a net win, not happening right next to where a lot of people breathe), they produce "practically zero" (yeah I insist) PM2.5 - PM1.0 particles from braking, there is almost only tire wear pollution.

It may not be perfect, but it's a pretty strong improvement in quality of life compared to the actual situation - have you "tasted" the air in Paris on a busy winter evening while walking through the city? It's awful. In the future we will look at this stuff like we are finally starting to look at cigarette smoke. And the noise... just terrible.

Do you have a better proposal which can be realistically (yeah banning all cars ain't gonna cut it, people won't, and will vote out politicians who try) applied to the situation, with results available on the same timescale of the EV transition - which is already happening by itself? If yes, let us know, and let's discussing moving all the EV incentives towards your better solution.
This quote always struck me as a weird anti competitive flex, in the "we can crush you anytime" way.

And Apple later released the whole iCloud suite that made Dropbox a second class citizen in the OS, even as to this day Dropbox works better than iCloud in many ways. We more and more hear the "services revenue" drum at every Apple earning call, so Jobs was not wrong either.
In 'proof of concept,' CRISPR-engineered chickens shrug off flu
Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I have met 4 vets now, all in different walks of life (yoga class, my rock climbing buddies, an ex-colleague who did a career change, and a cousin), and all of them have at least experimented with animal drugs...

Hard to believe it isn't widespread in the industry.
> Replacing parts of curl with Rust will not be possible.

It's not just possible, it's been done. You can compile curl with rustls, you could for a time compile it with quiche, and work is ongoing to compile it with hyper. Curl is remarkably modular, none of those are mandatory.

> And Rust supports a tiny subset of possible C targets.

Gross overstatement. Rust supports the vast majority of devices that people buy today. Even if you ignore platform popularity and just count platforms supported by gcc vs rustc/llvm, there's only a handful missing from the later. And if you're talking about vendor-specific compilers, a lot of them don't support modern C or C++ either.
No children of felons for one. No children of illegal substance (drugs) users is another example. Parents must be literate to join the military is another, etc.
France is like this. Massive amount of toll roads.
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These weird in-between self-hosted and cloud companies. RudderStack too is guilty. Is Sentry fully, truly self hosted? What about PostHog? IMO, the test is, "is there a Kubernetes operator for it?" But a Kubernetes operator for X is the entirety of the business.
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I agree, there is a rather vocal crowd of people who don't sound much different from evangelically-minded religious folk.
If you have to loudly proclaim you're still important...
Also consuming enormous amounts of power and water
US seems to be an exception in the developed world with such high distrust of the government.

It's probably a self-fulfilling expectation: the government can't be effective without trust. Without support, it can't pass strong regulations that make a difference. So you get an ineffective government, and watered-down lobbied laws that easily fall to regulatory capture, and you can say "told you so!"
I think a lot of people in the US see the communal spaces as a lost cause.
Composting has value too -- I'm a fan of permaculture. But as noted elsewhere, this scales well and becomes one tool of many.
Are you able to give some examples? I'd like to know what it looks like w r.t. LLMs.
At 170M development cost for 1,000 residents, a break-even point of $170k per resident seems quite high for Phoenix. This unfortunately looks like a luxury product. Hopefully future costs come way down as they figure out the formula and can make this accessible to more people, as it’s definitely a much more human-scale, healthy, and pleasant way to live.
truly dystopian to live in a VC backed neighborhood where you don't own anything... Maybe if you were recent graduate for a few years. The whole idea of not needing a car is also not even that exciting. You don't exist in a vacuum in your tiny neighborhood in a larger city, you still probably need to get to work, US does not build good enough public transportation especially in these less dense cities. If you want to get out anywhere else in city or leave you'd probably want or need a car. Most people who live in NYC live close to people and surprise also do not need cars.
I'd be impressed if the percentage of vets that do drugs is higher than any other similar profession.

A lot of people do hard drugs - I've seen conservative estimates at ~12% of the of the adult and teenage population.
I don't understand your shock at the question? The military most definitely does not just let anyone in.
The title should really say ammonia fertilizer.

Of course compost is also fertilizer, and farms have been producing that on site for a long, long time.

That said, huge win!
Not SDL2, but GLFW has something like that under the tests/ directory:

https://github.com/glfw/glfw/blob/master/tests/triangle-vulk...

(yes it's over 2kloc for a triangle - that's Vulkan for you ;) but at least it's all in one file readable from top to bottom instead of being spread over a dozen obscure "helper classes")
You kind of have to ...

The land for your business is at least in a country that isn't ran by you if not also just owned by a landlord that isn't you.

The materials you use to run your business are almost certain sourced from not you.

The lesson isn't "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms" it's make sure you have contingencies for your suppliers.
If you built a complex series of gears that took input, revolved through different sets of millions of gears, and produced meaningful output, I would consider that a form of intelligence.
I was wrong, just required a restart of Firefox.

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Mike?

So did they follow up?
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I used to give feedback regardless, and I found that at least 80% of the time candidates weren't able to accept it -- they wanted to argue that I came to the wrong conclusion, that my assessment was flawed, that they knew the topic and just didn't perform well and can they please have another chance, etc.

I eventually had to stop after I received a death threat from one particularly upset individual. After I reverted to noncommittal HR-ese, I never had a single candidate push back on their rejections.

I still strongly believe that companies have a responsibility to at least let candidates know when they've been rejected; the increasing prevalence of "ghosting" in hiring is unjustifiable.
In the USA we used to just spray sludge, but that's largely been banned. A shame because it works really well and scales with population.
I don't think OpenGL and vulkan are interchangeable in this case. I wouldn't really recommend a beginner to start with vulkan. Yes, OpenGL might have some "outdated" concepts compared to vulkan but I don't think throwing someone directly to vulkan is more productive!

Plus, tutorials and in depth guides are much much more common on OpenGL, but that's probably a chicken/egg type of situation.
Not really. In a lot of industries, +20 years old tech and even +20 years old equipment are normal and competitive.

In tech, yes, 20 years is a lot, but that's more of an exception.

And imho, it's slowing down: A 20 years old computer, like an Athlon 64, today, could probably run most of the usual basic workloads (mail, text, word processing, browsing) with up to date software. It would be slow, but it would work. An 1983 years old computer in 2003 was just obsolete and completely unfit to run any of the usual 2003 software.
Golf carts?
Lots of good stuff coming in .NET 8 and C# 12

- Primary constructors to simplify class declarations
- Collection expressions to simplify initialization and make it more like JS/TS
- Finally ahead-of-time (AOT) compile support for Web APIs which should improve cold starts for microservices
- Lots of performance improvements
- EF Core still possibly the best ORM out there; super productive. Now with better JSON column type support.

C# and .NET is probably the stack that most teams should evaluate first when moving on from TypeScript and Node.
A database could pass the LSAT if you put the answers in it.
Sometimes it works out. This guy but someone in frustration and ended up running the BBC

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/mar/24/broadcasting.b...
I had opposite experience: not owning a car and only on occasion renting a car, using a taxi etc. made my life in big cities much easier.
This seems bit vague. Can you address specific thing from the article?
Does it matter? Kraków is doing its own thing without much fanfare and I think it's great.

I went there a few weeks ago for the first time in 6 years or so and could easily identify positive changes that make living there more pleasant.

Also while driving was a little slow (as usual), I had no problem finding (paid) parking close to the old town.
>We don't know what "intelligence" means, but we know it isn't matrix multiplication, or brute force algorithms, otherwise gears could be called intelligent.

We know no such thing. The simplicity of the basic operations do not necessarily constrain the complexity of the whole system composed of those operations. We compose simple operations into complex units all the time.
As much as that sucks it might be possible to play. I use the Hero Launcher to play the games from Epic through Proton. IDK if anticheat might mess you up, but you might try that
It sounds like it would create podcasts that are either uninteresting, full of lies, or both.

What's the benefit you see of creating AI podcasts?
Google options with near expiries have 100s of thousands of contracts of open interest[1]. Unless you found the person some other way (and then could prove that they had also gone long a short-dated put to try to profit) there's literally no way you find anything interesting by doing that.

[1] Add up the "Open int" numbers here https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/goog/option-ch...
Sounds like they were getting in the way of Cypress.io's attempts to monetise, which that company considers "bad" for obvious reasons.

Whether there's actual intellectual property (of the legal definition) being abused is anyone's guess.
Some nearly 15 years ago, one of my elders told me to do this. I was later told this was the reason they picked me over someone else. That's the story of how I got a job at a megacorp. In massive companies, HR people can feel really undervalued. In a sea of a dozen of equally qualified juniors, a hand written card can tip the scale. At least then. It wouldn't have moved me and I don't know when the last time an HR person got to be the final decision maker on a hire, but that's some context.
Sorry, but what happened to PHP?
I cud almost tell this would be the case when the title of the paper was simply Mistral 7B.
A little more info would be useful!
Note that wgpu, while mostly mirroring WebGPU (and being used to implement WebGPU in Firefox), doesn't have an identical API; WebGPU being the lowest common denominator* of the underlying low-level APIs, while wgpu offering some minor platform-dependent features on top of that. For exaple wgpu's PrimitiveState has an additional polygon_mode field (that can be used to easily draw wireframes) that doesn't have a WebGPU equivalent.

(* meaning, while simplified, it's also missing some convenience features sprinkled in the lower-level APIs. For example, from what I've seen, pipeline explosion is much harder to deal with here.)
I agree with you.

It is an emotional decision. Politics is all about emotionalism.
Now everybody that like or work there will need to have buy a te$la or pole$tar.
It's four blocks, you could drive to where you can park and then walk.
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> I'm not 100% what those words mean, but if I'm understanding you correctly, this 11 million was if I could sell it for in a perfect universe. It wasn't the actual price I could sell it for ... obviously, that was about $700.

That's right. So you may have accumulated 11m HN coins, but the market for them is dead except for 1 exchange where a pump n dumper is the only person offering to buy any. They are currently paying 1 USD for each of them, but they are only willing to buy up 700 HN coins at most. MTM is 11 million USD but liquidity is only 700 USD.

So your story is perfectly possible, but without stating liquidity it's unclear which number you meant when you said $11m unless people are familiar with the markets in which case it's obvious you meant MTM. Most people would expect min(MTM, liquidity over reasonable time frame), though.
2) Essentially means that distribution of 'objectionable material' should be proportionate to the public's interest in such material.

Eg. spreading state secrets would be illegal, but if such secrets would show things like war crimes, publication may be okay (whistleblowing) given the public's interest in knowing those crimes.

Imagery of gore / killings etc follows those same lines. Traditional media tend to be conservative there, and self-censor on the side of caution. Social media... not so much. Likes!

On a side note, I suspect many a politician would like to blur the line between graphic imagery & misinformation. That's intellectually dishonest imho:

Imagery can be extremely graphic, yet simply show what happened. And sometimes, it may be appropriate for the public to view such content. I rarely have any objection there as long as viewers are warned what they're about to see. Whether you'd want to distribute such material, is a matter of (bad) taste.

And otoh, one could have harmless-looking content that is 100% bs / misinformation. Possibly dangerous too. Removal of such material brings a host of issues concerning grey areas, who's to decide what's true, whether material is fake or not (and how to determine), what sources are 'trustworthy', etc etc. Flagging (but leaving available) seems a better approach there.

Leaving the remove option for things like copyright violations, calls to violence, etc.

2 Orthogonal subjects. Treat separately.
If I haven’t posted this RFC to a new group I am working with, the collaboration is still new and we haven’t fully bonded. This RFC will be true and useful long after TCP is a historical relic.
Why human distinguishes so little flavours? I thought that tongue is like a chemical laboratory detecting hundreds of different substances. Also, why detect sweet or sour taste? Wouldn't it be better to detect energy-rich and useful components (like meat or fat) and poisonous/harmful (like mushrooms)?
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> car-free neighborhood built from scratch

I am not sure the "building from scratch" approach can really move the needle in terms of livable and sustainable urban environments. Like, how many centuries before natural replacement rates would achieve a transition?

The key challenge much of the world is facing (certainly the most polluting part of the world) is to rehabilitate the vast numbers of existing housing stock, and reinvent better uses of the existing urban layouts as people are stuck with them.

An exception where such green-field ideas could have impact would be in the context of developing world urbanization (i.e., how not to do the same mistakes others did) but there other considerations (cost) enter the discussion.
> hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet's life while being braced for "I guess we should put them down..."

I'm sorry, but vet costs are completely out of whack with reality these days. The truth of the matter is that most people cannot justify spending thousands of dollars on a pet, no matter how much they are loved, and that DOES NOT make them bad or unfit owners. The story quoted $10k to remove a skewer a puppy swallowed, and then pressured the owner give the pup up when they couldn't afford that. Can you not see how that would be viewed as insanely predatory? For profit companies should not be involved in human or animal medicine. Once that cash cow is gone maybe vet school prices will come down to earth.
I have worked with it. It was just stating, very little useful code in it. Going back to the source code, I see they added a bit more.
A quick look around suggest that only one algorithm uses an indexing structure. Clipping seems limited between a convex polygon and a concave one.
Yeah both options are bad for beginners, at least for cross-platform 3D APIs (e.g. D3D11 and Metal are both nicely balanced and well-designed 3D APIs, but restricted to Windows or macOS).

As other have said, WebGPU is probably the best cross-platform option right now.

(also IME the tricky thing with GL information on the web is that there's a lot of really outdated and sometimes conflicting information around - e.g. worst case is you end up with code that mixes old and new GL concepts without realizing what's what)
The solution to this is a car sharing programme. You pay your membership and get access to a fleet of cars and vans that you can pickup whenever you like. Tax, insurance, and petrol is all covered in the price (usually) and you can pick the right vehicle size for the trip you're making (no need to own a truck for the rare occasions you need to move large items).

Obviously not a solution for every situation, but if you only need a car occasionally then it would likely work out well.

The "Not Just Bikes" video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OObwqreAJ48

Personally I only drive once a week at most, but there isn't a car share scheme locally. If one started up that was cost effective and convinient enough then I'd consider it.
Nonsense. The blame falls on the people being dishonest and malicious. Full stop.
Modern patents are a joke, though.

They could really just stick in a "time travel" module into the AirPod patent and then just wait for somebody else to invent it.
Ezra Klein spent 80 minutes or so talking to Ghodsee back in June 2023. As I recall, it was a good conversation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kriste...

There's a transcript there if you prefer to read.
OpenGL is not dying only in the sense that vendors and Linux want to keep support around for legacy reasons and applications which don't need to be all that carefully optimized. It is pretty much dead otherwise, as it hasn't received any meaningful updates and extensions in a while exposing the myriad of features that newer GPUs have made available in Vulkan.
Prehistoric solar storm is warning for Earth, researchers say
"In a study released Monday, researchers identified what appears to be the largest solar storm to hit Earth, estimated to be larger than the Carrington Event by an order of magnitude. The storm occurred 14,300 years ago, but is evidence of a yet unknown dimension of the sun’s extreme behavior and hazards to Earth."
The car free idea is great, but this looks like it's inevitably gonna turn into a dystopian nightmare since it's actually cut off from the rest of the city.

The great thing about good cities is that they make it easy to meet people, but they're also decently large so there are enough sub communities that you aren't forced to conform entirely because you might otherwise get kicked out of the only community available to you. This is a village problem (although villages being far less dense make it easier to hide the non conformist stuff you might be up to).

This development combines the worst of both worlds. It's too small and cut off from the rest of Phoenix to give residents access to a large set of sub communities, and it's too dense to keep your stuff to yourself.
If I'm talking to a non-educated (in the subject matter) audience, I'll often aim for "correct enough" and people saying "well actually" is super annoying and confusing to everyone involved. There is always more to learn, and you can always go deeper into a subject, that doesn't mean everyone around you wants to go down that rabbit hole too; like 'cool flex bro.'
> not really. it's freedom of expression, but with major caveats:

So... just like in the US ?

> In the United States, freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and by precedents set in various legal cases. There are several common-law exceptions, including obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot or imminent lawless action,fighting words, fraud, speech covered by copyright, and speech integral to criminal conduct

Americans and their "muh freedom of speech" comments are the funniest thing ever, yours isn't absolute, like everywhere else, it's been proven times and times over
I also don't understand why the backups are done the way they are. Why not just copy the current file to the backup, and not break hardlinks?
Same here! Remembering that I used to fall asleep like this as a kid is what inspired me try it again.
This is fun to test as a native English speaker from New England. It doesn't seem to be a fan of my accent on certain words.
Culdesac seems like just an apartment complex. Of course i'm happy too being able to walk from my bedroom to the kitchen instead of taking the car.

What happens when someone needs to go get groceries at a walmart? Or go to a la fitness? (i'm using brand names on purpose instead of grocery or gym since a "local bodega" that could be able to fit in the complex would unlikely have what i need). Merely having a checkbox saying that thing exists within the 15 min radius isn't enough.

tbh i just don't see high quality of life coupled with car-free happening in the USA due to how big it is.