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Regulations have existed in Chicago for over 50 years. The building predates it, and has been adding mitigations such as changing lighting and applying stickers for some time now.

This is not a common occurrence for the building in question.
You might enjoy this short story: http://hubski.com/pub/78001

Published in 1990, by the way.
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I often wonder if the pursuit of AGI is going to require a greater focus on new hardware architecture.

All the sci-fi seems think this. I have seen Intel chips from the 80s that implemented neuron like behavior on a chip.

We are still waiting on a practical memristor.
Why are so many WordPress sites I've seen in such a mess though?

Proprietary plugins, open source plugins, half broken themes, conflicts, security holes ..

These things seem par for the course?

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Drupal has a huge ecosystem too, and it's truly open source and built on a solid extensible framework (Symfony). D10 is a completely different beast to D7 .. and actual uses good development practices.

Is WordPress closer technically to the bad days of D7?
Worth mentioning there are pricier but even more invisible, similar idea solutions. I've got stickers I put on my house and have suggested to clients that are translucent in the visible spectrum but strongly reflect UV. Lots of birds (and in particular songbirds, these are on rural residential buildings with no more than 3 stories so raptors aren't going into them) have receptors for ultraviolet, so to them the stickers look opaque glowing white. They're effective and may be more aesthetic, though again more expensive (they need to be replaced every 6-9 months, the chemical that reflects UV breaks down). Another approach I've used is a sticker that simulates a golden spider web. While not translucent, the thin web look is very subtle, but apparently a lot of birds have evolved to be very hard wired to avoid flying through heavy spider webs so it triggers an avoidance response well.

Finally, there are bug screens that have gotten very subtle too (high density thin weave with low visibility materials used in their construction). As well as reducing external reflection, those will just plain act as a softer shock absorber if a bird runs into one. And of course keep out insects, so doing their job anyway.

I'll add that I still do have (far fewer) bird hits once in awhile, but the big change seems to be outcome. Before a lot of birds died. Afterwards what seems to happen is the hits still see it at the last moment, and the hits have 99% turned into bellyflops. Not fun for the bird no doubt, but it also isn't lethal, they just fly away. Bird death in my experience is generally caused by broken necks, they fly in head first and their neck snaps and that's it. So even if they swerve as the very last moment, it's still a huge boost in survivability. On a big building it might help to have some nets out of sight below windows though so that birds which are temporarily stunned don't fall all the way to the ground.
Yes, I'm rate-limiting by using fail2ban to drop traffic that I don't want.
I’m probably outing myself as an old fart, but I continue to be frustrated that we can’t have web sites that don’t rely so much on JavaScript. Beyond what used to be known as AJAX, I really don’t see the utility for the majority of the javascript that companies want me to run in my browser.

I really hope HTMX gives us a new opportunity to reduce our reliance on arbitrary code running in the browser. Maybe it’s time for “HTML 6” to standardize what HTMX is capable of and move control back to the user.
A naive top of my head explanation: joy seems like something that’s been developed from a friendship that could’ve been roughly labeled by one/multiple of author’s categories. Basically, you feel joy only because you’ve spent time gossiping, confiding, having fun together (etc.) in the past, and at those stages, the relationship would be frameable by some of these categories

Another argument to be made is that, let’s say after having a positive shrooms trip, many people feel joy being with other people even strangers. But that kind of joy doesn’t seem to be a significant sociological force in the western society, which is here being examined
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I don’t like stickers on my windows, ruins the aesthetic. Instead we should have some kind of spray that transmits a wavelength of light only birds could see but is invisible to humans.
Near as I can tell they were selling this stuff for $2 a liter, which probably should have tipped people off but some people just have no sense for these things ("It's one banana Michael, how much could it cost? $10?")

I would be doubly skeptical of anything like this coming from Whole Foods, the grocery store that has an entire aisle dedicated to fraudulent quackery "medicine" aka homeopathic nonsense. It's not illegal, but it should be, and they shouldn't be selling it even though it's legal, but they proudly do. Fuck whole foods.
Thank you, glad you like it. :)
Git is hard because it has the most confusing, inconsistent, and atrocious CLI of all the programs that I use.
ChromeOS lets you run Android apps which integrate nicely enough (eg opening links in the app), and also there's the virtual Debian (by default) part that doesn't integrate as well but is more flexible. So yes, you can run other browsers although last I checked it was a little bumpy.
Well, yes it does.

The USA is still the biggest polluter, even with 1/5 the population of China.

Also, making the technology viable and proving it so is the only solution.
Carmack is on it now! WHEW, great, we'll have robot butlers within 5 years. Was looking dicey there for awhile!
On later chromebooks you can run Linux apps and android apps.

If you need to test in a lot of browsers it's not a terrible idea as you can run both desktop and module browsers.
Well, considering the majority of corporations are on Windows, that is an obvious choice.
This is incorrect. The Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) expressly forbid operating in IFR conditions (or an IFR flight) with cell phones on.
> [Kemp] said that the person who developed the water treatment process for Real Water bought the titanium tubes "from some Russian guy in the 80s" and spent four to five months making alkaline waters in his garage, working until he had a formula that didn't make him vomit or have diarrhea.

Ha… wow.
It’s not. They are saying that they want to make it (appear) urgent.
On that tangent, there's been a large amount of R&D into finding alternative monopropellants, because this one's so infamously hazardous to work with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Propellant_Infusion_Miss...

- "When compared to the present high-thrust and high-performance industry standard for orbital maneuvering systems, which for decades, have exclusively been reliant upon toxic hydrazine based propellant formulations, the "greener" hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN) monopropellant offers many advantages..."

And: Starlink eschews chemical thrusters entirely, and only flies with electric Hall-effect thrusters (harmless krypton or argon gas). Might be an underappreciated engineering choice: no hazmats at integration should simplify a lot of things for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Satellite_hardware
> Based on what are you expecting bug fixes for free from Mozilla?

Because they want people to use the browser? Seems pretty straightforward.

Anyway they're not a charity; stop treating them like one. Mozilla is a company with a product and should act accordingly.
It has stickers
A Git repo is a DAG of commits, and each commit is a snapshot of your files, along with some metadata. Commits are immutable and point to their own parents. Branches and tags are pointers or labels on commits. Everything follows from that.
You're misquoting with your explicit subsidies. Undercharging is an implicit, not explicit. The vast majority of these subsidies are implicit subsidies. "Getting rid of" these subsidies means taxing an extra trillion dollars not scaling back something handing the oil companies a trillion dollars.

If you want to argue we should levy a trillion dollar tax on fossil fuels that's fine but let's at least be direct about it instead of the somewhat misleading statement that it's a subsidy, like it's some giant pile of cash the state is handing to the oil companies. It's not even that it's giving tax breaks (that would be an explicit subsidy), it's that these taxes didn't exist at all.

You're essentially arguing not being taxed to oblivion as being directly supported by the government.
I have no opinion on Tesla or their autopilot system, but this is a poorly researched article even for wapo. It's focusing on the wrong thing in this particular case.

Even normal collision avoidance systems cannot easily detect a semi truck sideways, because semi trucks and trailers in NA aren't required to have side skirts and protection bars. This won't happen in EU because all their trucks have mandated side skirts and bars. So when the car hits it the occupants are protected through the air bags and crumple zones.

The objective should be to prevent severe bodily harm or loss of life to the occupants in the event of a collision, with/without an avoidance system.

Find out why trucks in NA don't have mandated side skirts. Who's lobbying against it ?

If they really want to talk about lack of proper safeguards in autopilot they could've investigated many other reported scenarios like Teslas suddenly steering into the opposing lane, dividers. There are also reports of their system behaving erratically when the road slopes up into the horizon.
Is that sufficient reason to abandon the entire project?
And when Apple started the PowerPC partnership, they deliberately made sure they had two sources (Motorola and IBM) competing on the same architecture so they wouldn't be beholden to Motorola again (otherwise they were also considering the Motorola 88k)
It really says so much that we allow these systems on our public roads.
That's not the most reliable way to make sure it rebooted. https://blog.zecops.com/research/persistence-without-persist...
Ask HN: API-Enabled Email?
My email is filled up with great newsletters. But I don’t have time to read them all.

Can anyone suggest an email provider that offers programmatic access to emails?

I would like to extract the body content.

I am fine with a paid solution if it is reasonable.
I would have to experiment, but googling and also playing around a bit, I came up with: arms crossed; hand in one pocket leaning slightly back; hands on hips

Hands behind my back also does not feel natural for me, so I wouldn’t do it

I think in this particular photo, arms crossed would have looked good for Carmack since he’s in the middle

For you, I’d say play around a bit. I think the thing that matters most is that you find it comfortable and you feel relaxed
We aren't going to see browser competition unless and until we fundamentally rethink what the internet should be.

The specifications are simply too complex to foster any meaningful competition. There's too much ground to cover playing catchup and Google has such a large market share that, combined with their data and ad monopoly, allows them to create new specs and features that focus entirely on growing their business model.

Web sepcifications should be simple enough that it's pheasible for small teams to actually maintain a quality open source browser with modest funding. We've ended up falling into the same trap as many other big systems, we lost sight of what the goals and limitations for the web were and instead chased convenience and shiny new features above all else.
Use it for food consumption.
I don't know, man.

On one hand, ChatGPT provides a hell of a quick start template for getting going with a new app. This can be super useful if you're seasoned and don't want to boilerplate, or you're not as seasoned but still know things and want to get started quickly.

On the other hand, writing tons of code while not understanding what's happening at all is a huge liability.

What happens when Slack changes OAuth scopes for those endpoints, or Google pulls a Google and changes their Search API endpoints, and ChatGPT doesn't know about it due to the knowledge cutoff? What happens when you run into a runtime error and GPT keeps feeding you wrong answers? What happens when you run this in the cloud as a serverless function and get a huge bill after your first scaling event?

We've seen this today with devs who copypasta stackoverflow answers into their codebase and leave little traces of tech debt that result in massive outages that require Herculean efforts to solve. It's a huge problem, IMO, and GPT is making it worse.

My last thought on this. It is absolutely bonkers that so many of us are gung ho for using GPT to code. It is absolutely crystal clear to me that this will decimate programming as a career for future generations, and we're...letting it happen? We're (labor) the most expensive expense for most companies; founders/executives are obviously going to use this stuff to justify offshoring SWE dev to cheaper markets.
Note that Berry is used by Tasmota: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Berry/
The guy would still be alive if he chose a different car manufacturer
Sharing the memory of a loaded library is not a problem though. Every major operating system has done that for decades. That is just a consequence of copy-on-write pages though and doesn’t affect process isolation. Unless you meant something different than that?

There is also fork on posix systems, which is incompatible with using atomics in the child process for basically this reason though of accidentally partially sharing a loaded library between two processes. Most libc documentation will state that only async-safe calls are permitted after fork until exec for this reason.
Analyzing OOMs in IntelliJ with Bazel
Do you mean like IMAP?
I like this take. Already you see specialization of dating apps toward different relationship styles, with Hinge more focused on Monogamy, Tinder on the casual/singles crowd, and Feeld for the nonmonogamous.

I agree this is decidedly positive for the monogamous folks. There is now less risk of them connecting with and falling in love with someone who isn’t a good match.
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If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, not outside access allowed.
I have a weekend project to make SimH runnable as a Docker Swarm service like I did with some Hercules images. I need to figure out how to make SimH consoles and terminals appear as listening sockets.

BTW, just released a new version at https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370
There's a big difference between a model and almost every other form of compilation of human knowledge, which is when the human intervention occurs. A dictionary is a collection of definitions from humans that is derived from their experience reading texts. Human knowledge and experience moderates the flow from the text the human reads to the text in the dictionary. LLM training has no such moderation, and that is a significant factor in whether something is a derived work or not.

This is really all up to the courts, and I don't think anyone is confident about how it will shake out. However, the fact that OpenAI isn't even trying to make the argument that an LLM isn't a derived work of the training set (they are going straight to fair use, which is an acknowledgement of infringement) suggests that this is not actually contentious.
If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, no outside access allowed.
It's a large language model. I've seen similar branding from big fashion brands. I'm a GPT skeptic in general but I'm going to give it this one.
Great foresight! Thank you for checking it out.

That's right, the usage was something beyond what we expected. It looks like API keys or capping are the way to do it.

Any suggestions to keep the service live and useful for non-spammers / abusers?
UV reflective stickers
>the project strikes a great balance of stability (zero issues over two years now)....

>I’ve killed my instance twice now and had to restore from backup, which is also surprisingly pleasant to do

Stable, but murderable?
This place is much more for pedantic gotchas and devs showing really cool stuff off.

The only jokes tolerated are the humans who post really stupid stuff.

Actual jokes like from the ad campaign from Chick-Fil-A aren't really funny, either.
Adding those rules in the US has been tired more than once.

https://www.truckinginfo.com/10138132/underride-legislation-...
Absolutely! Anyone from the past who succeeded at marketing and building a business empire would today be using whatever gets results.
In the US, entering a PIN at the terminal is only prompted for debit cards, not credit, and even then you can usually opt to run the debit card as if it were a credit card and just scribble a fake signature.
Viability is a given. But palatability? That's like giving up and saying there are no solutions to hard problems.
Like I said she acknowledges them but I don’t feel she really addresses them sufficiently to make different claims. It’s just not possible in a group this niche.

Frankly I don’t believe that fetishes are anything but learned associations so it’s kind of silly to imagine the findings will generalize.

She gets close to this idea in her survey design but I feel like she doesn’t acknowledge this overall. Like, cake sitting. Dumb as hell. But sure I can see how it would lead people to shame or sensory triggers that they have learned on a second order to be arousing. And that after this they’ve become dependent on that specific thing even.

But it’s definitely not an intrinsic association.
No one in power is trying to design and put in place comprehensive plans to solve any particular problem. It’s all isolated one-offs, mostly involving dumping money instead of regulation, intended to improve a politician’s or party’s political standing.

The ACA and Dodd-Frank, whatever you think of them, were the last counter examples. That was more than a dozen years ago.
Theoretically sure, remotely probably, no. This is how interacting with sufficiently complex systems works, eventually you just need to accept that it cannot be fully quantified and rationalized.

Also you presented it as 'we could just strip mine the world' lol, not exactly a nuanced take
Hell,LLMs can and do output strings of "I'm AGI", so in some sense we're long past that. The problem is as humans we've never defined what it means for a system to be AGI.
Your privacy may not matter to you. For most of us here, though, our privacy matters to us. So "privacy doesn't matter" seems like a rather incorrect generalization.
There is a (bro science, so you will love it or hate it) theory I recently heard from Carnivore Aurelius that unlike fruits which evolved to be eaten, many vegetables have natural “pesticides” (believe he was using this term much more broadly than things you may have heard of like caffeine, nicotine etc) and pro-inflammatory compounds that cause our guts a lot of heartache when you eat them, because they don’t want to be eaten
if you're still upset about climate change you're probably 30 years late to the party.
I think he just wanted some political bonus points.
That's what they believe. Same for a lot of things sold there. That's what happens in everything that has no controls. Food items, dietary supplements all of those have close to 0 controls, nobody checks what's in them. And it is the same (or worse) in all the kratom and synthetic thc products found everywhere in grocery stores and gas stations around the country. The agencies supposed to check for that are not doing anything for various reasons (they get dismantled, rendered inefficient through bureaucracy or plainy incompetent). This should tell you how much politics (both sides) really value the human lifes they make you believe they defend.
Well sure. Christianity invented thoughtcrime. Before Christianity, the essence of religion was observing the appropriate rituals at the appropriate times, with Christianity it became what you truly believe in your heart of hearts.
You seem to be conflating impact mitigation with obstacle detection
From a user story perspective you skipped the most important “so that” part that describes your needs separate from the functional spec masquerading as a user story.

Although I think I agree with you, if your “so that” is so you can visit a particular website, those features you are specifying may demonetize and eliminate the website you want to go to causing it not to exist.
You'll never get what you need for EVs without child labor or extremely unhealthy work conditions. Roughnecks and engineers happily go to work to drill for the oil that runs society
I'm quite paranoid about throwing stuff away so for me it's at least partly a mentality thing. I probably save a lot more than I need but it gives me piece of mind to know that it's all there. There are some things that it is very helpful to have easy access to, like utility bills and bank statements (which I occasionally need for KYC stuff) or ID documents.
I looked out the window yesterday for a few minutes. I think I heard a chirp faraway among the natural traffic stream.

The silent spring is coming.
Not to be negative, but what value would Servo exactly bring to users and the web after all the engineering effort? I'm sure it was technically impressive.

Chrome, when it came, was stupidly faster than any other competitor, including Mozilla Firefox.

What would Servo bring to make web a big jump forward for us users, beyond ideology and fun work for its developers? (Ideology doesn't sell software, as opensource efforts have proven repeatedly over last 3 decades).
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or perhaps it's "I'm tired of the incessant climate change propaganda"
What happened to “May the best player win”?

The US can throw a fit, but technology is inherently human and RISC-V is an open instruction format.

Sooner or later China will get a powerful working chip. Not in the best interest of US to be an enemy of a billion person nation. Esp the nation that is the world’s factory.

When China couldn’t supply PPP gear in Covid, 100s of thousands died.

I’d rather wish our Senators work on bringing manufacturing back to US instead of playing no-trade games.
Asian countries have low SIDS despite infants commonly sleeping with their mothers.
This is a rwlaly defeatist attitude thats all to common in tech circles. Somehow techies are able to both say 'technology progress is great and needs to be embraced' but when a bad tech or aspect is pointed out they switch to 'its inevitable, the ships already sailed'

Its both not true and shows a deep misunderstanding of technological development
I watched this one, and yeah, a lot of these edgie kids are little pricks, but whether or not they're going to Bring About the Coming Race, I frankly don't think the blockchain kids have the balls. The whole shebang is a little weak, but I am open to the idea that they're feeding the Thiel/Palantir/Literal Nazi Vampire complex. I just need some data, not association.

If you're gonna blow an hour or two on NFT YT docs, I'm still recommending Dan Olson's "Line Goes Up" as the go-to. I guess everyone's probably seen that by now, but it's a far less "this guy painted a picture that looks like this other thing" and much more of "yes, Powered By The Blockchain is an awful lot like saying your ship is powered by an anchor chain that gets longer every port and which can't be reeled up.". Dan also does a pretty good job of dialing in the villains, who are, surprise surprise, the same class of fintech a-holes who have driven America into a gulch.
Michael Lewis' "Big Short" was a decent account, but after that he's gone mad, if he's simply not on the payroll of Big Crypto.