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We are absolutely seeing a lot of snowflake clusters in the wild. This is also a hot topic on all cloud native conferences I attended lately.

Platform teams try to create internal developer platforms to further standardize Kubernetes configurations across teams and clusters, where developers can only do minor modifications. From my experience we want to reduce snow flake configurations. This is also a reason why we created Glasskube in the first place.

> - authoring helm charts sucks

Yes, 100% and we are on a mission to change this in future.

> - managing different values per environment

Glasskube packages are still configurable, but come with meaningful default values.

> - connecting values across charts so I don't have to

This is already possible, you can reference package configuration values from other packages easily via Glasskube, not needing to provide the same values multiple times.
I'm typically very skeptical of Tesla's strategy here, but to play devil's advocate for a moment:

Waymo has shown they can make robotaxis work, but the big catch so far is that it takes them a long time to open in a new city. They have several phases before they open fully, from what I've seen it seems to be: safety driver no passenger testing, safety drivers with employee passengers, driverless with employee passengers, limited rollout to paid passengers under NDA, wider rollout but with waitlist, and finally getting rid of the waitlist.

This means that hitting even all the major metro areas in just the US is going to take them a long time, let alone the rest of the world (or at least developed world). That does give Tesla some time to potentially catch up, since they don't seem to be bounded by geography in the same way.

Now, that said, I personally don't think Tesla's strategy is workable except maybe the very long term. Doing this with only vision seems like taking something that was already enormously challenging and making it nearly impossible instead. Their slow progress and inability to get their cars to avoid even basic errors frequently, despite near a decade of development now, I think points to this strategy just being bad.
It would be a good sci-fi plot to find a moon base hiding back there. Populated by aliens/your current enemy/tech billionaire mad scientist/high IQ octopi

It could also be an abandoned base.
>xargs is newline-delimited by default

Even worse, it is whitespace delimited (with its own rules for escaping with quotes and backslashes)
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i don't know much about this specific archive, but in my opinion, this kind of action should be considered criminal damage to human cultural heritage. you shouldn't have to pay to store it yourself, but you should then have to make sure somebody else gets a chance to pay for a copy.

I've seen some YouTube creators delete their past videos when they transition. i understand the desire to distance themselves from their past persona, but again, the content itself doesn't belong to just them anymore - they should be able to profit from it if they want, but they shouldn't be able to destroy it.
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> There is always somebody ready to respond

I mean, this is true for Uber as well.
Maybe. Asking “how could you know?” only goes so far. It exposes that much of what you think you believe is actually based on faith.
> Labor is entitled to all that it produces

I sympathize but must disagree. The guy you paid to paint a wall—does he own the paint (that you presumably had to pay for, too)? Is he entitled to, what?, the paint on the wall or the fact that this particular paint is sticking to this particular wall in a particular way? Or the fact that's now pink? and when you want to change it to blue later, you have to ask them or negotiate a fee with them? What could that person claim, materially or idealistically?

There's some precedence in that at least over here in Germany, architects have come to maintain a copyright of sorts (actually, Urheberrecht I believe, "creator's right") over the physical architecture they designed. Whether it's opt-in, opt-out or mandated by law I do not know, what I do know is that it made some people very angry when they experienced constant leakage in a building by a famous architect whose name I shall not bring forward here, but who is a complete moron and famous for his leaking designs. All the owners (owners!) of the house wanted was to install a frigging rain gutter, but the architect long declined (he finally did cave in and installed the ugliest stainless-steel 'sculpture' that ever hurt your vision). I'm much more of a preserver than I am a friend of the modern BS that too often replaces sound old structures, but I do not understand owners who agree not to own the building they paid for, including the lawful modification or destruction of it, as the case may be. There have actually been cases where existing structures of a public building had to be torn down when an architect fell out with the stakeholders, just because the guy claimed his rights to the already built—wait for it—four elevator shafts for crying out loud. Judging from that perspective, I can understand anyone who pays for work to be done to play the safe game and make sure all rights are waived by the creator.

In the case of a typical programming job—that's often done collectively. Using a version control system like Git you could probably figure out exactly which character sequences a give programmer put into the—finished? intermediate version of?—product, but don't get me started about the bugs that needed several revisions, or the rights of the project manager whose chose to interfere—erm, help out—during development. Does the PM get rights to character sequences?
I don't think compilers consider undefined behavior a license to kill; I think the problem is genuinely hard. The priciple of explosion[1] tells us that any wrong assumption, even the most innocuous looking, can lead to an unboundedly wrong conclusion. The more complex your graph of logical deductions, the worse the problem gets (and good optimizations require a lot of complex logic).

It may be possible to limit the bad effects of faulty assumptions by being very careful about how deductions propogate from unreliable assumptions. However it's certainly not easy, especially without throwing out all optimizations that interact with a potentially undefined operation.

It is possible to design a languge such that a compiler doesn't need to make assumptions to perform optimizations, if programs are required to give enough information to compilers that they can statically prove properties they need to perform optimizations. But C and C++ are not designed that way, and it can't easily be retrofitted on top of them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
A very short list:

* The trick is to set everyone's expectations low, especially your own. E.g.; Even for a relatively small project, make sure management understands that there is no way to guarantee a schedule.

* If you think a step will take x days, schedule 4x days. EXPECT 4x. Generally, EXPECT bizarre failures to fry your so-called "schedule."

* Simple, obvious steps that work initially will suddenly stop working, and likely near the project's end.

* At least one thing not obviously connected to your project will stall everything (e.g., an old switch, a DB update, something somebody band-aided with COBOL 40 years ago**, ad nauseam.)

* You will almost certainly have at least one hair-pulling interaction with the security team. Hopefully, you'll have someone higher up to help you.

**yeah, that happened.
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Would love to hear how did you begin your entrepreneurship journey and what was that turning point which made you believe that I need to do my own thing
"squircles" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
> Does the US government have some special natural right to toy with the lives of Afghans that Assange does not have?

Your argument appears to boil down to the idea that two wrongs make a right.
The post is very meaningful.

You seem to care about developers avoiding UB. Exploring how compilers warn or don't warn for some of these cases is very meaningful - maybe it can lead to new warnings, or better tools so that developers can avoid UB.
> Reliance on HD Mapping gets you to "robotaxis" quicker and easier, but it doesn't and likely cannot scale.

If you can make the unit economics work for a large quantity of individual cars, mapping is a small fixed cost.

I agree that it's not economical to map every city and road in the US, since you need to generate revenue from every mapped road and city. So you can think of HD maps as amounting to building roads. They will be built in lucrative places. Cruise and Waymo won't make money from putting taxis in nowhere Arkansas, so they don't need to map it.

> the current limiting factor is not what the car sees or knows but what it does with that information. It is unclear how or why HD mapping would help them at that point.

That's simply untrue. All the hard stuff continues to be reliability and sensor gated. Cruise and Waymo have amazing sensors and even they struggle with sensor range, sensor reliability, model performance on tail cases, etc. For example, at night these cars typically do not have IR or Thermal sensing. They are relying on the limited dynamic range of their cameras + active illumination + hoping laser gets enough points / your object is reflective enough. Laser perception also hits limits when lasers shine on small objects (think: skinny railroad arm). Cars also have limits with regard to interpreting written signs, which is a big part of driving.

Occlusions are still public enemy #1. Waymo killed a dog. Cruise crashed into a fire truck coming out of a blind intersection even though their sensors saw the truck within 100ms.

LiDAR and HD mapping together are supremely useful, even if you don't drive with it, for enabling you to simulate accurately. You cannot simulate reliably while guessing at distances and locations. HD maps let you use visual odometry to localize, and distance measurements grounded in physics backstop the realism of your simulation at least in terms of the world's shape.

Tesla lacks the ability to resim counterfactuals with confidence since they don't have HD ground truth. There are believers at the company that maybe you could make "good enough" ground truth from imagery alone but that in and of itself is a huge risk, and it's what skipping steps looks like. Most in the industry agree that barring a major change in strategy they just have no way to regression test their software to the level of reliability required for L4 / no human supervision.
Without the need to import fission fuel from Earth, you mean? Where does the energy to liberate that oxygen come from, then?
We've had issues relying on ESXi host/guest time synchronization, depending on the guest OS, and found this to be a better solution.
in a strange way, this almost makes the behavior of hopping onto every new framework rational. The older and less relevant the framework, the more the owner's starry-eyed enthusiasm wears off. The hope that bigcorp will pay $X million for the work starts to fade. The tedium of bug fixes and maintenance wears on, the game theory takes it's toll. The only rational choice for library users is to jump ship once the number of commits and hype starts to fall -- that's when the owner is most vulnerable to the vicissitudes of Moloch.
The only reason I use .env is because it’s dead simple and very obvious as to how it works to anyone.

If now someone has to read docs to figure out how to configure the app, I’d rather have them read docs for some other safer and more powerful configuration scheme.
The timing was too good on this when I saw it today, but:

https://mobilegamer.biz/those-assassins-creed-resident-evil-...
> Sure, it lived inside a soulless corporation that imposed limits & expectations. But please don’t do a disservice to the brilliant artists and creatives who make animation.

Just because people are hard working and skilled does not place them above criticism. In fact they should be criticized even more when the stuff they produce is substandard

We would never say something trite like "don't do a disservice to the brilliant programmers and techies who make software" when we're criticising bad tech industry security practices
I’m bullish on hemp as a replacement for plastics, it can be used for many of the same purposes (textiles, packaging), as paper, is easy to grow, inert, and stable yet biodegradable. Hemp had a shot at becoming mainstream before Henry Anslinger went on his cannabis crusade, and though it was legalized in 2018, plastics have too much momentum for hemp to become a common solution without major regulatory change.
Can they drive over steam yet? https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1dm3cqf/se...
Spreadsheets are the best and most open way to share data because it lets other people analyze it. But they put out plenty of their own research if you want to read that.

I'm really not sure what you mean by "infrequently". They release new raw data every 3 or 6 months or something, and every single accident is trumpeted in the news. What other industry has more publicly accessible safety data?
This is an insightful comment, sadly
Obviously dumb, but also can’t say I even knew this existed until now.

Was it good ?
unfortunately that time seems to have passed, the refurb units I can find now are back up to $650.
> Intergalactic flight would require something more like 0.95c to 0.99c

Why would it require speeds that high? Sure, it's going to take a very long time, but why is that an insurmountable obstacle?

There are enough isolated stars in intergalactic space that one can even imagining making the trip in smaller steps, with colonization in between. At a stellar density nine orders of magnitude lower than our galaxy stars are still within thousands of light years of each other.
> when you're old and quite possibly disabled, you might rethink the whole "walkable cities" thing

Manhattan is incredibly senior friendly.
Yup. Plus, if Waymo can clean its cars with greater efficiency at lower cost than Uber can, then all other things being equal, Waymo will have cleaner cars.
I've helped build https://gptengineer.app/ which works exactly like that. We support Claude 3.5.
How on earth do property taxes increase one's mortgage payment? They don't increase the size of your loan, so should have no effect on either your interest or principal payments.

You might have chosen to pay your property taxes monthly, through escrow, and thus 1/12 of your property tax is sent along with your mortgage principal and interest every month, but your actual mortgage numbers aren't changing.
No worries, at least I'm subscribed to Paramount Plus.

Of course I can watch a classic episode of MTV cribs. Wait what's this, they only have the last three seasons!

What about the legendary episode where Redman shows off his authentic home!

This has to be the biggest tragedy to streaming, I can imagine in 10 years or so BoJack horseman won't be palpable to modern audiences. And since Netflix only officially released the first season on DVD, it will effectively become lost media.
Good. In our small company of two dozen people we use Teams only because of external clients. Otherwise we do away with Google Workspace and self-hosted stuff like GitLab.
OT, but did you get the "license to kill" phrase from me (https://gavinhoward.com/2023/08/the-scourge-of-00ub/) or someone else?

I ask because when I wrote that post, I couldn't remember if I had heard the term before. In other words, I am not sure if I copied someone else or not, and if I did, I want to add attribution.
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As the author of the original Nightingale article that kicked off this (wild) thread, maybe I can clarify a few things:

My fundamental concern with box plots is that no one has ever shown me a single scenario in which a given insight was clearer in a box plot than it would be in a simpler chart type (i.e., strip plot, distribution heatmap, or stacked histograms). If someone can show me even a hand-crafted, cherry-picked scenario with the same data shown as a (well-designed) box plot AND a strip plot, distribution heatmap and stacked histograms, and in which a potentially useful insight is clearer in the box plot than in the other chart types, I’ll happily change my opinion. I’m still waiting for someone to show me such a scenario, though.

In the meantime, I’m not sure why one would use box plots when simpler chart types are available that say the same thing about the data or, in many cases, say more about the data (show gaps, multi-modal distributions, etc.). Even if the audience is very used to reading box plots, they’ll still find strip plots, distribution heatmaps and stacked histograms to be simpler to read (and will actually see gaps, clusters, etc.)

How do I know that other distribution chart types are simpler to read than box plots? Because I’ve taught these chart types to literally thousands of people of all skill levels all over the world. Quartiles are just inherently less intuitive than bins or, in the case of strip plots, no delimiters to understand at all.

Like I said, if someone can show me a scenario like the one that I described above, though, I’ll happily change my mind…

Before people jump all over me, I should clarify what I mean by a “potentially useful insight.” For example, “showing the interquartile range” is not an “insight” in this context, it’s an “observation” because it doesn’t point to any kind of action or conclusion, in and of itself. A potentially useful insight would be something like, “The employee salaries in Company A are generally higher than those in Company B.” or “Most people make close to $80K in Company A, but the salaries are much more spread out in Company B.” Basically, an “insight” in this context is a piece of information that would point directly to some kind of action or conclusion.
> and sites themselves being served off CDNs

Funnily enough I can't set up CDN on Azure at work because it's not approved but I could link whatever random ass CDN I want for external dependencies if I was so inclined.
>> Taxes should focus on points of exchange.

> Yes, increase taxes on the poor for basic necessities rather than taxing people with far more money than they productively use because... ???

Yeah, wealthy don't have any major exchanges... no stock trades, no building purchases, no yachts that would vastly exceed the spending of most poor.
They’re making the wrong strategic play.

They will fail if they go after the highest margin customers. Nvidia has every advantage and every motivation to keep those customers. They would need a trillion dollars in capital to have a chance imho.

It would be like trying to go after Intel in the early 2000s by trying to target server cpus, or going after the desktop operating system market in the 90s against Microsoft. Its aiming for your competition where they are strongest and you are weakest.

Their only chance to disrupt is to try to get some of the customers that Nvidia doesn’t care about, like consumer level inference / academic or hobbyist models. Intel failed when they got beaten in a market they didn’t care about, i.e mobile / small power devices.
I can take in the scene in front of me with my parafoveal and peripheral vision while looking at the mirror with my foveal vision. It doesn't work the other way around, as anyone who has ever driven would know.

That's like asking why I can't read a book while gazing ahead as I'm walking, since I can easily do the reverse (walk while gazing down at a book). Seems like you're just here to stir things up, so I'll leave you alone with your thoughts!
https://waymo.com/blog/2022/02/utilizing-key-point-and-pose-....
> I'd like all articles to carry an obvious date of publishing and/or last update

Definitely, though as others in the comments have suggested, it may be that Google downranks pages like this. Not that I care much for my search ranking.

I've heard the same but I've not seen trustworthy documentation stating that is an issue. It might be plausible that a date older than a certain point will make something be considered out of date, or more so than an article with a newer date, but if you think about it deeper it could be a bad indicator. How do you compare to articles without dates? I'd argue a dated article is better all else being equal, because the extra context makes it potentially more informative, some information doesn't date badly (at least not quickly), and how would the algorithms know what to do with pages containing multiple dates?
> Relying on third-party, un-audited code was acceptable when the majority of contributors were from the West.

No, it wasn’t. It was always a really bad idea, and it’s been exploited repeatedly since the start.
Also see the proposed EU regulation on packaging and packaging waste.[1][2] It aims to "bring clarity to consumers and industry on biobased, compostable and biodegradable plastics".[3] In the US we have companies like BPI and ASTM. :/

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:5...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2022_396

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...
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The way you can tell that a mode of transport is very safe is there are tons of people online whining that they almost got killed by it.
I'm not sure how that "conventional violent response" would work.

One can imagine scenarios of varying effectiveness, but this a separate matter. The point is -- the Biden administration has made it clear to the Russians that there would be a significant response, with strong hints that it would be military in nature and not limited to extra sanctions.

If Russia can use nukes against Ukrainian army entering the Russian territory, then for sure it would use them against NATO troops doing the same.

The response doesn't need to involve NATO troops in Ukraine.

Meanwhile it'd be kind of hard to use nukes against stealth bombers, cruise missiles, drones and SF operations.
The reason I am not using a mac is the OS. If there was a fully working Linux for it the hardware is fantastic. I can only hope snapdragon x will get proper and official support cause many of the laptops with it I've seen tick most of the boxes in my wishlist.
I don’t think every city is a brand new learning experience, there will definitely be takeaways that will speed up deployments in new cities. Plus, a lot of these deployments can happen in parallel so seeing them come online in 20 places at a time simultaneously doesn’t seem extraordinary.
https://github.com/dotenvx/dotenvx
This looks great! I would like to use this tool.

I'm looking through the docs for more info on this line:

> The server supports different storage adapters, such as SQLite

What are the other storage adapters? I may just be blind, so if so please forgive me!
We don't know how often the humans interject. That's my whole point. It's an illusion that the car is operating alone. When I drive a Tesla on FSD i only need to interject periodically, but it's enough that the car cannot be called autonomous IMHO. How many remote human supervisors are needed for Waymo vehicles? How often do they interject? Without that data it is absurd to call Waymo autonomous.