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Don't know which utopia you live in, but are you really happy with the other drivers texting, sleepy, high or just completely incompetent at the wheel?

If anything, FSDs are over-cautious and slow down to well below speed limits if they can't make out conditions. So, yes I'd say other drivers shouldn't complain about a system that still requires a human to constantly pay attention and keep their hands on the wheel.
Sadly, not even intensive.

The thing that nobody talks about is that there is a high rate of failures on this high end equipment. I've heard as high as 20%, in the first month. I'm not even talking about AMD here.

If anyone thinks they can just buy some accelerators and throw them into a rack and expect them to work flawlessly... they've got some hard lessons to learn.

This will be less of an issue as we grow as we will have plenty of stock to pull from, but it is a real bummer as we are starting as a proof of concept first. We started working on this business last August, before anyone knew whether or not AMD would even change course on AI.

The good news is that we onboarded a customer the day that we announced our availability, we passed that PoC challenge with flying colors and closed significant additional funding immediately after that. Onwards and upwards, just have to roll with the punches.
Hello to the list too. How many Bulgarians died in Iraq? That would be 13 soldiers. Unfortunate but that's really not the same as being a tool of an empire.

The American way works the other way around, they usually are for free market until you sell its enemies weapons or help finance the war.

They also do questionable things but IMHO it's a much better deal overall.
That applies to SAE levels 3, 4, and 5, which would ban useful and safe robotaxis like Waymo but not Tesla FSD (Supervised), which is a level 2 driver assist system that requires constant supervision.
There’s a replication crisis in sociology and psychology and these stupid drawing tests are exactly why.

They’re just reusing flawed techniques from flawed research.
They didn't have the expertise nor care to do proper repair back even when they could. I had a friend in ~2006 take a Windows desktop PC to them that wasn't booting; they told her to buy a new (needlessly large capacity) hard drive. I took a look at it, and fixed it... by running CHKDSK.
The recursive neural networks described there are a failed academic project from more than a decade ago, predating modern deep learning. Basically everyone using the phrase recursive nn nowadays is probably just mispeaking for RNN. RNNs also are not linear
Basically nothing is repariable (that is to say, nobody will bother to repair) anything below the "board" level any more.

Your refrigerator could have had a bad relay or a bad capacitor, but they most likely just replaced the whole "control board" because that is just a couple of screws and a couple of cable connections. No diagnosis beyond "something is wrong on the board" and takes the tech about 5 minutes to do.
Let’s keep moving the goalposts…

Unless you own the product and know it has that problem I don’t know why you would invent it out of nowhere.

Can we also acknowledge that this is a general purpose smartphone and not an audiophile playback device? A ton of phones with headphone jacks had/have terrible DACs because they are general purpose devices designed to be good enough for the average person.

Someone who wants an audiophile playback device should buy an audiophile playback device.
Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire
Yeah, and? Being safer than an objectively dangerous behavior doesn't make it safe.
For some reason all the discourse about that book has forgotten that he treated China, India, and Europe together as parts of Eurasia and contrasted them with Oceania and the Americas, not with each other.
Nah, random Youtubers aren't at all a representative sample. Much better to just try it out, since it's now deployed on a large number of cars.

We have it on our Y, we're in suburban America, and its average number of attempted very-obvious moving violations per 15 minute trip seems to be about 2, and 1 attempt at curbing the wheels or something similar.

It doesn't seem to have any concept of things like conditional school zone speed limits (it consistently ignores those), school busses with their stop signs out, or any unusual scenario like that. I'm not willing to try it in anything dicier at the moment, like taking turns at an all-way stop. Even multi-lane left turns are hair raising, because it doesn't seem to consistently stay in its own turn lane, instead drifting toward the car next to us.

This experiment has ended for us for now, it's much too stressful to actually use, like being driven around by a bottom-percentile drivers' ed student. It's an incredibly impressive bit of technology, but simultaneously nowhere near good enough to not be an incredible liability.

I'm biased for them, if anything - I’ve been a shareholder since before the Model S launch - but it's not there.
They get to call it that when it can drive safely on snow covered roads. Before that happens, it's marketing hype that can't be relied on in all scenarios. When they transitioned to radar-only, they sold "FSD" that needed a whitelist to ignore the sensor input in problematic locations. What other half-baked hacks are in the current implementation?
Totality Is Worth It
Musicians put their music on Spotify out of their own will. If they don't like it they can withdraw. Unless they sold the rights to a music label, but that's also their decision.
BCM ECM-ADLN-N97 3.5-Inch Intel N97 SBC with DDR5 RAM and Dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet
A word in support of this
I've also seen a pretty stunning lack of empathy from tech workers who unquestionably have it better than almost any other working class (non-owner/shareholder) groups.

I'm not saying that its great that tech workers are being laid off, but I get the schadenfreude other would have after a decade of being told that the solution to their problems is to "skill up" and learn to code.

The real problem is of course the system that prioritizes wealth flowing from workers to owners and we should all be aligned in this.
Also see “Steve" Shirley, she build a company of coders, women only [0], from the '60s on with remote first :-)

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

[0] She hired all the female IBM coders who couldn't make a career at IBM
Right, that part I largely get. At least, I think I do. Such that if I am saying something that is off in that, please correct me.

My question is basically, as soon as they are exportable across devices, then you are trusting the encryption of every actor involved, no? Such that, if there was a process to share from Google to any other company involved, then that means any company involved could be breached and the key compromised.

You could do time bound shares. But, that is ultimately going to fall back on access to Google being what secures you. Right? (And replace Google with Apple for the same general scenarios.)

Now, Yubikeys worked by never letting you get the private key off the device. As such, if you lose the device, you can no longer use those secrets to authenticate. Solution then, was to have multiple keys all configured such that you would have to lose all of them. If you needed to reestablish a brand new set of keys, you had to do that in another way. At companies, this was largely done by doing it in front of an IT person that should either know you, or validated some other identification. (A bank would similarly require you to be there in person with government ID.)

What is the article's proposed way of letting you share passkeys at will across devices and companies, that doesn't largely compromise the security?
The whole thing is a red herring. How many of these old antennas exist, maybe a dozen? At "25 homes" each, it doesn't meaningfully impact the cited 50 TWh need.

Sure the structure is free so why not, but even that needs maintenance, just ask Arecibo. It's unclear from the article if they plan to use these as sun-tracking panels, but the burden of that would make it rapidly economically unfeasible.
Retiring in your 60s is becoming an impossible goal. Is 75 the new 65?
Now this is an opinion I can get behind.

I'd love to see all cars (including Waymo) compete on a standard set of tests with clear gates as to what conditions they'd be allowed to go to Levels 3, 4 or 5.
There are already safer alternatives.
The problem is that in a sense it is just some random Qt/Gtk window. I have recently written my own PolKit agent. It runs purely in userspace without any special privileges. An attacker could kill your legitimate PolKit agent, register itself as your agent, even act as one, and also steal your password the next time you do actually authenticate something. In that sense a PIN linking the command line to the agent window doesn't save you.

I agree this situation needs improving, the problem just runs much, much deeper.

On the other hand: if an attacker placed a modified sudo that steals your password in ~/.local/bin, it would also be Game Over. Much of the current security model breaks as soon as the attacker has code execution.

EDIT: I'd also like to highlight this:

> or the window should be able to use some restricted window manager feature (like Windows' fullscreen greying out thing) to prove

Your Wayland compositor also runs in userspace. Even if it is supposed to check that some calls come from euid 0, an attacker may be able to circumvent them if the attacker runs in the same context as the compositor. Again, the security problem runs very deep.
The solution to traffic is definitely not self driving cars. If truly self driving cars became available which cost no more than comparable (non self driving) cars, then the total cost of driving would go down. Here in “total cost” I’m including the obvious costs like insurance and gas/electricity as well as the total physical energy required driving. With true self driving (i.e. not Tesla FSD in which many are left stressed wondering if it will work right), the act of driving will be easier. In fact, the cost of sitting in traffic will be lower since you can space out while the car does the work. The natural consequence is that the amount of traffic on roads will _increase_ and overall traffic will increase.

The solution to traffic is the same as it’s always been: increase throughput on fewer vehicles. In other words, you should take the bus or the train or increase carpooling or really anything that gets fewer vehicles out of the transportation network. Most importantly the solution is to be less individualistic and more focused on the problem as a collective. Self driving cars are the opposite of that solution.
Sadly, no. I moved back to the US and then worked on other things, but still maintained it for a few years until the ENEM microdata started to get released super behind schedule, then I gave up on the whole thing. Was called dadosdoenem.org, and you probably may encounter a reference to it here or there somewhere online. Good times... insane to think it was over a decade ago.
Read endurance. This is the most impressive survival feat and example of true leadership, every - single - one of his crew survived... The dude converted a large row boat into a sea going vessel and crossed the worst seas in the world just to get to elephant island (100+ miles? Away) - only to have to mountaineer without gear over a mountain to get to a whaling station. But not just mountaineering, they got up into the mountains only for a terrible snow storm start to stir up... They then used frozen rope as a sled.... Man read the book, it's like jaw dropping... Not based on a true story - shit is a true story
"Add a little randomness to the cadence. People think they want regular cadence, but they’re happier with bounded irregularity."

No. I get periodic updates from my staff, and I receive periodic internal communications. "A little randomness to the cadence" would add nothing. Would a little randomness to a weekly magazine add something - Tuesday one week, Thursday the next? Would a little randomness to the quarterly earnings call - three interceding months one time, four months the next - add anything? No.

"Within reason, deliberately engineer pleasant surprises so you can include them in your updates."

No. Do not waste your time "deliberately engineering" anything in an effort to look good. Do your job.

"For example, start by softly expressing the possibility of a problem to give people time to adjust. The next time, state the problem as fact."

So you're saying there is a problem, but first just "express the possibility" of a problem? That is, lie? No.
I was teaching myself Rust and got tired of doing Project Euler problems. I've always wanted a program that made it easier to parse arguments in shell scripts. Something like Python's ArgParse. So I wrote it.

https://github.com/Shaftway/argparse

Initial implementation took about a weekend. I've tweaked and added features and documentation since then. I've only tested it in Bash and I'd love feature suggestions or a critique of the code from better Rustaceans than me. I've been using it in a couple scripts and have really appreciated the functionality.

My Hello World demo is:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
eval "$(argparse --string name -- "$@")";
echo "Hello $NAME"
Here's recent testing of Windows terminal latencies. It's 66ms in Microsoft's fancy new terminal. https://chadaustin.me/2024/02/windows-terminal-latency/
We were not supposed to have the market consolidation that we've had. The FTC has been asleep at the wheel, probably because it's members are investing in companies that they are hoping to be bought out by Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, etc...
At last, true words. A subscription based economy is ultimately unsustainable. Too many subs chasing too few subscribers with too little cash. Eventually it will crash and burn, and already there's pushback coming from users (e.g. the Adobe extortion). The best way to ensure devs get revenue to keep developing and users get value, is to push the subscription up into the Premium product range, which looks like it's starting to get traction in A.I. software at least.
For the majority of people from non-tech business functions, the ability to ask for insights from data is liberating. Tools like this can unlock their potential to make more informed decisions. Imagine a store manager of a hyperlocal grocery startup managing a dark store. What if they could ask questions like "What is the fulfilment rate of a certain SKU between 12-3 pm in their store for the past 7 days?"
Seeking positive examples of jailbreaking chatbot prompts
I'm writing a story about different creative techniques for chatbot prompts. One of the techniques I am writing about is "Do Anything Now" (DAN) commands. I'm looking for examples where using DAN can produce positive results (ie, not just forcing chatbots to spew racist/awful stuff, like how to destroy the world). How are people using DAN/jailbreaking in positive ways? Thanks.
Mmm.

ChatGPT finds about half of the bugs in the code it creates when the issue is described, which is more than I expected and still low enough for my job security.

Given the history of AI is written in examples of "machines can't ever… oh wait one did that must mean this never needed intelligence", I don't rule out any specific breakthrough on any particular time scale.
Some deflation, at least in basic commodities and energy, would probably be a long-term net positive for the US economy.
It's the cost of doing business for the seller on the platform.

I'm not sure what's the problem here, to be honest. Alternativelly the platform could also charge withdrawal fees, making small withdrawals pointless.

Afaik this minimum withdrawal concept has been the standard way of doing business when reselling digital goods. See e.g. the aforementioned AdSense which has been set up this way for 20 years now. The same goes for Steam, once again you have to sell $100 worth of stuff to get paid.
Of course. Everyone does.
Variance isn't a reason to simply ignore part of the problem.
If it makes you feel any better https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/03/29/more-bodies-mo...
As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about.

Personally I didn’t care about the eclipse until recently. Then I realized then when the next one happens in North America, my son will be in his 20s and I will be in my 60s. I got the idea that it will be cool to (G-d willing) see that one together and remember how we saw this one together 20 years earlier.

It happened to be that we had family we can stay with in the path of totality but even if it cost me an extra few hundred to do this, I would find it a good use of funds.
I have searched the article (and another one that the author linked) for the clarity regarding what, specifically, were the original contributions of von Neumann to the computer science. The best I could gather was that he was a "generalist" and that he popularized the principles developed during the work on ENIAC and EDVAC wider, than the engineers who designed those machines intended (to their displeasure). The specifics of computer architecture do not seem to be his idea. I welcome corrections to the impression that I've formed.

Program stored in the same memory as data, particularly, strikes me as mixed blessing, given that it has proved over the years to be a never-drying wellspring of security vulnerabilities.
From the article:

> Due to the size and design of the porphyrin molecule, and electronic behavior at the edges of the graphene electrodes, electrons don’t move through this single-molecule transistor like simple particles.

The article is about a transistor comprised of a single zinc polyphorin molecule bridging two graphene electrodes. It isn't about one thing or another; your claim that graphene is "just" electrodes is a significant leap of logic. The destructive interference that makes everything work out may very well depend on the specific properties of monomolecular graphene.

While I wouldn't say "never," this transistor technology will depend on a major revolution in semiconductor fabrication; the placement and alignment of graphene, and then zinc polyphorin, must be accurate down to the atomic level. Today, this is only possible with direct manipulation, taking perhaps hours of intensive work per transistor. Want a billion-transistor chip made out of this stuff? Don't bet on it this decade.
Since OP can seemingly already write Italian, cynically, this seems like an effort on Italy's part to keep some foreigners out. Although I can also see how it could have come about with good intentions to protect all parties involved. IANAIL, but by making sure everyone understands a contract right before they sign it, you might save the courts some headache later. It also gives an easy job to a translator.
Like others said, the good advice here is mixed in with not-so-good advice and maybe even bad advice. I think if he stated his confidence on each point, I can calibrate my trust better.

Otherwise, my impression is the author has not questioned his learnings. For example, his other article, https://www.spakhm.com/bullshit-ratio, basically re-describes "cost/benefit" as "bullshit/commit", which could have worked for him, but seems too specific, if not unrealistic, to apply elsewhere. I would have expected more research or review (from others) prior to posting to a wide audience.
My wife is a very good singer, and took singing lessons for years while singing in chorale and other group activities. She used to sing harmony in our church worship bad where I played keys weekly.

She's been learning Irish tin whistle for a few years, and is a big fan of the Dropkick Murphys and other celtic punk bands, along with 90s alternative bands lik Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Weezer. I've been learning guitar / bass / ukulele / mandolin, and it would be great fun if she can play drums and sing while I play something else....
It was inevitable, but also this was a factor - https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/01/21/oil-pric...
> Why "alternative"? Aren't file-based operations good enough?

For some things yes, for other things no. If you're just making a basic config, yeah writing to a text file can be sufficient. Though, that requires defining a protocol/standard and following that. You could use a socket, but similarly that requires a protocol, possibly at multiple levels in the stack. Besides adding unnecessary overhead, that also loses all the OS-level information such as which user/privilege level is the caller running as? Now suppose you need it to be highly and quickly reactive (or what we used to call "event driven"). Suppose you also need to impose authentication and access controls. You could use the built-in file stuff for authn/authz, but not really event driven and most solutions to that are slow and bolted-on, and there's no pre-defined schema (so back to protocol defining). You could use socket but no built-in authn/authz.

I rejoice in simplicity, and strongly prefer it when possible. But limiting only to simple solutions means there's a lot of stuff you can't do, and when you need to do those things, this is not great.

And if you have to learn and use multiple solutions based on the level of complexity of the use case, then it may be simple from the dev's point of view, but it's certainly not from the operator's point of view.
Many of the costs aren’t actually fixed. There’s all those extra workers you’ll need to pay, and training will have to be ongoing to account for turnover. Oh, and this is fairly specialized work, meaning if someone decides to specialize in it they may not have a ton of job opportunities outside of Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls. To even get people to apply you’ll need to increase wages. Even the fixed costs like building some new dry docks and factories could be in the billions. Oh, and you can’t forget everything here has multi-year lead times. Virginia class submarines take 5+ years to build. There are 9 under construction right now per Wikipedia.
This italian company https://www.trienergia.com/ [Trienergia] produces (in Italy!) triangular panels.
Sadly only less banding.
I mean you're not far off, I have clients who are pretty much all in MS surface + peripherals as their primary workstation for their employees. Similar thing with some clients and chromebooks/google workspace, not quite phones, but the idea of a portable device docked into a station is pretty much the norm. I've seen huge portions of different businesses barely rely on computers to be much more than a vessel for a different flavor of enterprise related apps
> There isn't much repair to be done anymore.

I want to to qualify that as: "There isn't much repair to be done anymore at geek squad." Computer/cellphone repair is still alive. For example, pretty much anyone with some time on their hands and access to youtube can do cellphone screen replacements. I've personally replaced the screen on my phones 4 times, and the battery once, all without any training or past experience. Laptops are even easier since you don't have to pry a screen off.
> how can things like "stutters during music playing" happen?

Good question.

It's nice that streaming works at all, but a lot of things have to be working underneath. I wonder how a DJ would set things up, even if that's not my use case. What MP3 player did your colleague get?
I agree: but given that, it's hard to imagine what would bend the market towards selling.
Well, on the App Store side some companies do generally charge more if you are using something like an iPhone without including the payment processing fees as an extra factor.

On the web some companies will alter their pricing if your browser profile is Safari for example. I think there is a clearer case here for not allowing discrimination based on web browser in pricing online.

I don't on the face disagree with your assessment on Amazon pricing, though the App Store is a little bit different and we should clearly separate it out here.
indeed :) - Another honeypot would be an article about Heroes of Might and Magic III