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The problem with that “1960s vision” is thinking to literally about having robots do exactly what humans do now. Likely there is a creative way to solve the need for humans to do those tasks via automation, but it’s not likely to look like a humanoid robot folding laundry.
If this is not a scam, then they must be betting heavily on going beyond class 2 for the laser so it will be usable outdoors. 1mW is very low, and my back of the envelope calculation says that it's equivalent to a display to around 120 nits, with the generous assumptions of

1. It's a green laser (it isn't)

2. It's projected onto a white surface, (again, it isn't)

3. 9cm^2 of projected surface area (3cm x 3cm)

Maybe they can modulate the brightness by the amount of stuff present on the projected screen, and maybe even have an outdoor mode, where they use light fonts, that are displayed on a higher brightness, so the overall energy emitted still classifies the device to be class 2. Still, 1mW must be very very limiting here, a 120 nits display is nowhere near usable outdoors, let alone a 120 nits display that reflects the outdoor light just as well as the projector's.

Why on earth they aren't using a green laser if they are limited to class 2 is beyond me though.
And the proliferation of ballot questions in US states has been a rather mixed bag. And in many locales in the US, there are direct votes on many local matters.
You're a terrible developer if some project manager tells you to disable paste... and you listen to. I know it's easier to pick jira task, implement them feeling you're making the world a better place.
It depends on the product. If it's a site that you're directly making payments on, customers usually want to see something something that looks modern and recently updated. I don't have the wording for the survey question, but the result boiled down to old looking sites/creaky clunky sites are seen as less trustworthy to ecommerce buyers, at least the ones one of my former clients surveyed.
The VCs said "don't be afraid," AI wasn't going to be Skynet. Rather it would a tool that would bring about a utopia of human flourishing.

But it was always going to be Skynet.

I bet the next version will have teeth.
I'm still not sure what point your trying to make. Are you arguing that the US is a republic but not a democracy? That it's controlled by corporations and therefore shouldn't be called a democracy? That first past the post voting and the two party system prevent a "true" democracy from flourishing?

You made a very contrarian statement (totally fine!) but left all the work to figure out what you meant up to the reader. Your response is full of as hominem (ironically what you're complaining about), and it still doesn't explain anything about your position
By definition, it isn't "piling on" for this blog to have been written, last December, before the CES AI gadget hype. Anticipating, long before launch, issues that are being discussed now, when reviewers have the device in their hands. Nor, in any way, shape or form is it unusual for a bad/imperfect product to receive poor reviews. That is not piling on--it is normal and expected.

No one is literally saying that an individual contributor at Humane is a "scammer" just because they happened to have worked on a project that arguably takes perfectly good sand and subtracts value from it. That happens. A lot. Sometimes you intend to make a product, and you end up working on an empty product-shaped object. Heck, sometimes, say in healthcare, the drug or device you hoped would help people not only does nothing, but actually causes harm. That doesn't mean you were foolish to have started work, but simply because you started with "good intentions" doesn't mean a product belongs on the market.

Humane is charging $700 for a device with $24 monthly subscriptions. If someone thinks that such an offering is worthless, or nearly so, it is hardly surprising if they use "aggressive" language to warn people away.

If there is anything unusual or unsettling it is that some people in tech seem to feel that it is "unethical" to treat tech companies as anything less than bold innovators, irrespective of what that they ship. If someone is despairing over past week's discourse, one only can imagine how they'd deal with something like Apple's "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" commercials.
I'm thinking the humanoid approach to robotics is now a gimmick. In most--if not all--cases, a robot in human form is not necessary at all if the approach is to get work done.
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I hate iOS shortcuts as well, I think they're one of the worst designed features on the phone and they have put some idiot PM's definition of "safety" as a direct obstacle to every user experience with them imaginable. I could see how if my job required them I might use android. But I don't think we could take that data point and extrapolate out that I "prefer" android.
Still orders of magnitude slower than a B-Tree Map.
The EU Commission do not dictate policy.

This is a convenient fiction that the EU Council (i.e. the national governments) are very keen to retain, as it insulates them from the consequences of their decisions.

If you really wanted to be tactical about it, one should vote for a disjoint set of parties in the EU vs the national elections, as this would be more likely to lead to effective supervision and assessment of decisions.
To me the gist of the review was that it's sluggish and lacking in features/integrations. Both extremely common attributes of 1st-gen products, and not particularly dramatic.
thanks! I didn't know about the special German capitalization. I'll fix this.
BD is done with hydraulics. I wonder how good this new robot will be at powerful, dynamic movements such as leaps and flips.
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> But they'd all die and then alcohol would be back at number one.

agree.

Being a "slow killer" makes alcohol much more appealing to the general population.

And, of course, less dangerous in general.

Let's put it this way: if alcohol killed at the same rate of heavy drugs, we would not encounter many old people abusing it.
I think we very much do. Robots are currently very expensive, so where do you want to send a robot that you can't use a worker? Probably somewhere at least potentially dangerous.

You want to use the robot to inspect a tunnel in danger of collapse, or a factory that may be leaking a poisonous chemical out of a pipe.

And in such cases you very much want something that can navigate obstacles about as well as a human. You can't count on the area being devoid of rubble, and rebuilding a factory to make it wheeled robot friendly could be an enormously expensive and impractical proposition.

Now humanoids? We already designed everything for us. A good enough humanoid robot can go anywhere a person can, and manipulate anything a human was intended to touch.
> You have outdated info about how EU works. Since the Lisbon Treaty it is actually evolving towards single super-country, trying to strip member countries from their sovereignty (and mostly succeeding at that, unfortunately).

Can you point me to the parts of the Lisbon treaty that facilitate this please?
> It taxes gasoline cars older than 2006 (so 18+ years old) and diesel cars older than 2018 (so 6 years old).

Well, very few people drive such old gasoline cars (outside of historic car collectors)... but a 6-12 year old diesel? Many people drive these.
I feel like the elephant in the room on student loans, that I rarely hear talked about, is bankruptcy.

When I graduated I dumped every penny I had into my student loans against the advice of my parents, peers, and financial advisors. Why? Because I was income rich and had a class of debt with variable rate interest that couldn’t be discharged in bankruptcy.

There is a large % of Americans that can not afford to pay the accumulated interest on their loans every month. Every month the balance of their loan increases.

They are bankrupt.

I don’t think further subsidizing education is going to do anything. We don’t need to pay these loans off for them. We just need to let them declare bankruptcy again and discharge the debt.

Right now, lenders have no incentive to minimize the balance of a loan. They’re nearly guaranteed a return, since the borrower will owe the debt for life. With access to unlimited credit by proxy of student debt, universities have little incentive to reduce tuition.

If you allow borrowers to declare bankruptcy, I’m fairly confident the financial system will properly price in the true value of each degree program over night. They’ll have data on which degree programs from which universities have what placement rates at what salaries. They’ll weigh the expected lifetime return on that loan against the probability of it being discharged in bankruptcy.

For many degree programs, I suspect students won’t be able to find a lender to cover the cost and universities will be forced to get costs back inline with the true expected return on the degree.

I’m not in favor of student loan forgiveness. I just want to bring bank bankruptcy.
hey, it should automatically move to the next word when you finish typing correctly
There are hands-on reviews out there of this thing (The Verge and others) and they all say the projector is next to useless in outdoor light.
> It was pitched to most kids as a panacea for poverty.

Late high school years in the mid 90s, I remember looking into job placement rates that were part of the pitch from higher ed schools. We knew that the purpose was to get a job, not just to go and get any degree and hope for the best. I recall the phrase "a degree in basket weaving" was common. We figured there are degrees that are just garbage. So maybe I was more fortunate in my circumstances. Then again, some people did go for those basket weaving degrees even though they knew they were garbage. I think there was a lot of pressure to do anything but work toward a trade skill and get a job.
How is the US not a democracy? We vote for representatives who govern on our behalf.
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I think this is the right take. It's really easy to nitpick the decision making in retrospect, but I think people need perspective. Are we expecting all 18 year olds to be good financial planners now?

I certainly wasn't educated on the long term consequences of debt when I was that age and I was relatively well off. We are, after all, discussing education. So the person who is striving for an education is being criticized for not being financially educated enough from the start?

I know that somebody is going to get on my case for defending ignorance. But maybe we shouldn't have systems in place that allow millions of people to make the same wrong decision? Fault can lie on both sides.

Maybe the difference here is that she chose to pay for a masters, which is a graduate degree. I think the personal responsibility argument carries more weight at that point.
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I think it's when you said "the victims of bad parents are no different than the victims of any other crime"
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There is some difference. Education (in a worthwhile degree) is an asset that should pay a return. A Ferrari isn't.

An education in a worthless degree is more like the Ferrari - except you can at least drive the Ferrari.
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I totally agree...
I feel the same way. I wish they offered a second factor for SSH auth — when I last looked, they didn’t.

I also send myself notifications any time a failed or successful SSH login attempt occurs by tailing the ssh service with journalctl. When I last tried Tailscale SSH, it didn’t log anything to journalctl and so my self-notification via journalctl method did not work.
You can easily inform the end user, so the conversation is transparent and the victim is giving implicit, informed consent.

"NOTICE: The user appears to be in XXX, Nigeria. The User's hometown and usual IP is XXX , USA. Beware of scams or impersonations by people hijacking your friend's accounts"

But Social media companies would never do this because it would destroy their so called "brand-trust"
True, but note that the national governments (i.e. the Council) also have a veto.

But I do agree that Parliament should be given law making powers, and the Commission should just be enforcement and implementation of said laws.
In my opinion your argument assumes there would be a single form factor for robots that will be used everywhere. This assumption has generally been false for most technology, look at the different cars or personal computer. In my opinion, we will have as many kinds of robots as there are breeds of dogs, some of which will be bipedal, but most of them will make do with wheels.
A lot of people will click OK to anything though.
There is this raft of people out their completely divorced from any kind of level headed discussion, who live in a world entirely composed of mega-corps and influencers trying to sell them stuff. A steadfast diet of tik-tok materialism channels and whatever garbage streaming TV series.
Hi, the line about "failed" attacks pertains to the attack on AMD, Nvidia worked fine ;)
> "You also don't do anything illegal in your mail and email, so the government can also read those, right? And you never speed so the government can get a black box in your car, right? And you never download anything illegal so the government can monitor all activity on your PC, right? And you never do anything wrong against your company so your company can also monitor all your activity, right?"

I know a lot of people who would just go “yes?”. The same people would freak out if there was a camera in their Airbnb. Or if they thought two steps ahead and realized their sexy photos or pictures of their kids would be viewed by some 20 year old moderator-reviewer type. Or would want to make revenge porn criminal, or even deepfake porn. Let alone any type of concern for journalists and their sources.

People for some reason don’t think these laws apply to them, that they would just be ignored by any snooping eyes because of course they look only for real criminals like terrorists and pedos. These proposals should ideally cause the same type of worry as being stopped by a cop even if you didn’t do anything wrong.
(For context, I was triggered since I know the likes of Grammarly, NordVPN and similar are absolute beasts in getting plugs from people with any sort of following in any niche)
I think that second retort that everyone says is so weak. People are trading their privacy for services not for nothing. Think how many people would actually give you their phone if you said you'd give them $20 or cleaned their house or something.
On second thought, of course there is plenty of trauma you can give a two yr old, my brain happily didn't go there during my earlier reply. I meant by actions of a parent with good intentions.
Using `code` here is pure ineptitude. It represents the physical position of a key, and is only useful for things like games using WASD movement; the same physical key routinely maps to different inputs under different languages and layouts. And `code` might not be set at all for on-screen (e.g. phone) keyboards. And IMEs don't necessarily send key events at all.
I was using chatgpt to help me with the translation. If you see any error, please feel free to update the words list here > https://github.com/agencyenterprise/term-typer-words

OR let me know and I update it. Thanks!
> Especially if backed up by a fast SSD

Ooh, relying on swap to your limited write cycle irreplaceable mass storage seems like a bridge too far to me. I know they do it, but I worry it will shorten the device lifespan if it’s relied on too much.

I am not a fan of the idea that we’d engineer a device to consume a limited resource like that in normal operation.
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It’s the source of all main narratives and archetypes used over and over in every second fiction book, movie you see.

Speaking of modern western civilization.

Im sure eastern has its own sources and ideas, just not familiar with it.
I wanted to like this but turned it off as I found it too distracting.

As a competent programmer I've already got an idea of what I'm about to write in my head, yet having an immediate prompt suggest a "do you mean this?" turns that train of thought away from what I'm writing and instead to "is the suggestion correct and what I want?" before accepting or ignoring it.

It's not for me, I just want to get my brain waves into the IDE as quickly as I can.

That said I can certainly see how it'd be useful when working with a language you're not super familiar with, perhaps one you just dabble in occasionally, or where you're learning programming in general, or a new language, where these hints could save you a quick search for "for loop syntax in $LANG".

It's very exciting to see what will come out of AI. There's a lot of stuff not relevant to me, but in time far smarter people than I will conjure up ways to make my life easier.
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If you were gonna elect Commissioners/President etc directly, you'd probably end up with something like the US electoral college system.

In fact, given that Ireland (a very small country) would have to have a referendum on it, then I can almost guarantee that such a system would over-weight small countries.
There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)
They have tons of great documentation — https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works
That was a rather insensitive comment. People are not disposable and people with schizophrenia need help.
wizardcoder didn't seem that hot to me

and i expected better from microsoft than piggy backing off of llama

they can keep it
And misunderstandings about "human remains" somewhere in some complicated cross jurisdictional chain of command could end up with you in handcuffs, or shot.

Or the media could run some poorly researched human interest story about you that makes you sound like Jeffrey Dahmer.
I used to use CPA for years when I had decent freelancing clients. The CPA was great as I can email him any tax question anytime and he usually answered in details for free.

But as for saving time, I would not consider that a benefit. It still takes me hours to gather all the forms from various websites, take photos of other forms that were mailed, receipts, and other expense stuff. The benefit was that I had an expert available to make sure it was done right.

You will still need to proactively tell CPA about any changes in your life.

I stopped using my CPA when I missed a deduction for buying a new car. But later I asked him how do I know what are important tax related things to avoid missing any deductions and breaks. He started sending me a giant pdf to fill out. That was more work and less user-friendly than simply using TurboTax.
It is a YouTube problem. They can suspend and remove creators who have ads in their videos. They just don't care and want people to pay for premium.
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What I find funny is just like with generative AI, this was under the Google banner first until it got struck with office politics related to Andy Rubin. I still don’t understand why someone else at Google didn’t take it over. They really lost their way a long time ago.
liberal as in leftist, yes.
liberal as in anti-authoritarian, pluralistic, pro-democracy and freedom of speech? Not so much anymore.
Ah, the Robots movie meets the Exorcist.
For sure. I totally agree with you about what's happening from a business perspective, but I'm just pointing out that it's innately not completely rational and it's not necessarily a good guide to how we should think about risks as a customer. You see this in the cycle of "OMG, GCP had a big security issue, move to AWS!" and then in 6 months it's "AWS has a big security issue, move to Azure!" and then later it's "Azure has a big issue, move to... ???".

It's not that you shouldn't pay attention to the incidents, just that when you're evaluating risks, it's important to not just assume that the most recent and high profile problem is indicative of higher risk in that system, as opposed to it being that system's chance to have its 0.01% failure case hit. As they say in finance, past performance is not indicative of future outcomes.
Really scary feelings watching the clip.
I think we need to make robots either neutral, or somewhat cute. Otherwise society will distrust these entities. This is the opinion of someone strongly rooting for the success of AI/ML and its symbiotic integration with actuators, either on an isolated basis or as a large hive mind.
My point is that it depends what you are optimizing for.

Your system is fantastic if you want to make sure that people who have invested the most money in the past get priority over those willing to pay the most for a future game. It still works against fans who can't afford season tickets. With your system a corporate lawyer that buys season tickets to hand out as perks to clients will get priority over a "true" fan who can only afford to go to three or four games a year.

As I said, EVERY system has its tradeoffs.
Well it is "out" and now everyone has it

As one of those people, it's pretty bad, especially at navigation which Navigate on Autopilot was very good at

Can't wait for his BS about record number of activations this quarter after he force activated it on the fleet

That said, if it weren't for all the lies and hype, we'd probably all be blown away by what it can do
The origin of all wealth is labour, there are no exceptions. Somebody needs to work to create the resources and do the services that others purchase. There are no exceptions and this is the most fundamental fact of economics.

You are arguing as if workers receive their wages as a gift or some kind of welfare. They receive their wages in exchange for their labour.

If you think that wealth actually comes from the monetary supply, then you'll have to go down the Zimbabwe route and print trillion dollar bills.
The reactance of those against vaccines had completely different sources. It wasn't China or Russia that are responsible here, far from it.

They of course noticed and certainly tried to reinforce that message, because they indeed became aware of the split. But the initial reason was a lack of trust in media and domestic politics and not some external propaganda channel.

And expect this to get much worse if you now increase surveillance. That said, NPR just suspended a journalist that did notice some form of propaganda from domestic sources, which might explain why people were distrustful in the first place.

In fact, you might be a victim of propaganda. Maybe read up on it.
That's true of stock performance, but Tesla sales are slowing too. That's not part of any reality check on the stock price, it's because of competition.
Hacker tip:

I had one of these FW900s I got for free from work. The screen was extremely dim and it was assumed the flyback had gone bad. Since I am a card carrying member of "program the damn VCR" generation I knew that it was probably a bad capacitor. Throwing complete caution to the wind I removed the case and shields around the multiple circuit boards. And with nothing more than a multimeter and a few cans of Redbull (gives you wings, and you're going to need them) I found the offending cap on the back of the tube (IIRC, the D-board).

With nothing more than time, a 10c capacitor, and the immortality of a young, 20yo I was able to inline a working capacitor and got a free 150lb, $2000 monitor for my effort.

If you're comfortable with working on HV electronics and know how to solder and use a multimeter getting one of these for cheap is completely doable.
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