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For most of my life, people use "common sense" as an insult, "XYZ has no common sense" or similar — therefore I think it is, in practice, the overton window of the person saying it.

Others define it as "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument", which LLMs absolutely do demonstrate.

What you ask for, "getting through the next 30 seconds of life without a major screwup", would usually, 99.7% of the time, be passed by the Waymo autopilot.
Lots of chopping trees seems to come from a laziness of thinking, where certain people in the city adminsitration are just used to the idea "trees cause costs". They never think any further about benefits beyond finances.
Why not? (I don’t know this field)
Rotors. https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
I think the department in charge of maintaining roads should also be put in charge of maintaining trees. Any time a road needs to be widened, make provisions for planting (or better) transplanting trees, including watering infrastructure.
Has nothing to do with trust.

I trust that you will give me the money. I also trust that you counted the right amount. But I still want to make sure you did not make a mistake.
Actually I expect that eventually we will have such scenario.

Instead of LLM => some language generated output => its compiler => executable

We will get LLM => magic pixie dust => executable

The dream of many corporate overlords.
that's more to do with a toxic work culture than anything, but as someone who regularly gets the DB between Frankfurt and Basel maybe a bit of toxicity might do some good...
That would be a win, but then the hideous code becomes the spec, and it becomes a project ten times the size to reverse engineer the "spec" into an actual spec.
There are a number of really good internal tools for ML model management. It'd be really weird to rely on Piper to manage production ML models since this does not provide critical functionalities (monitoring, deployment, dependency management etc etc)
Try being in 200+ rooms / spaces and using Element Web on an i7-2640M

Hint: It's not a fun experience.
Unfortunately the decision is often made based on costs, and chopping them down is cheaper than employing an arborist (?) to make sure the tree is reinforced properly.

Please don't get me wrong, I agree with you. In many historic cities, there are trees that are hundreds of years old. There are trees that have been around since before the invention of the telegraph, lived through 2 world wars and are still going strong! There are efforts to keep these alive, but I feel newly planted trees won't get the chance to live that long :(
I recently visited Tbilisi in Georgia which is also almost a city within a forest. It is very nice and something I would wish upon any city.

However, it does take it toll on buildings and infrastructure.

I wonder what Johannesburg spends per tree in not just cutting and leaf collection but also in addition road and pavement repairs and I’m sure there is more than one foundation that has been damaged by roots.
Simpler/better to plant a new tree.
They withdrew.

https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/27951404269204...

"Effective June 28, 2024: Due to a court order in France issued under Article L.333-10 of the French Sport code and a court order in Portugal issued under Article 210-G(3) of the Portuguese Copyright Code, the OpenDNS service is not currently available to users in France and certain French territories and in Portugal. We apologize for the inconvenience."
It was never actually open-source: it was only source-available. So when they stopped making it available there was no legal basis for continuing. (this is why the definition of open source matters!)
Attention and final logit soft-capping, update scaling factor to Gemma2
> I suppose it would be interesting to have an online space to discuss where things are headed on a logical level, without emotion and ideals and the ridiculous idea that humanity must persevere.

Absolutely. Happy to be part of it if you are able to set it up.
Patch out for FreeBSD. Not clear if affected (it has only known to be exploitable with glibc, which we don't use) but best to be safe.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:04...
i would assume all the distros have patches ready to go awaiting the embargo lift.
> You can still see a stark difference between rich and poor neighbourhoods to this day based purely on tree cover.

You can see that here in Sydney. The poorer Western Sydney suburbs have a noticeable lack of tree coverage when compared with the richer inner west, northern, and eastern suburbs.

I don't know which direction cause and effect goes. It is plausible that affluent suburbs can afford to plant trees, but it is also plausible, especially here in Australia, that trees lead to nicer climates that are more appealing to folks who can afford it.
Ok, I understand the concept of connecting pipes and that will work as well. Still, POSTing items is more separation of concerns. The remote service only has to process one item (no need to read feeds, worry about formatting, etc).
People are beginning to forget about waterbeds, thus allowing space for doing something weird with beds again, I assume.
Trees are nothing but obstacles to traffic. If you take a good look at cities, you will see that they were built for cars, and cars alone. Anything that's not a car has no place in a city.
Nope, architecturally it's fundamentally unsuited. Way too many moving parts, high resource consumption, specific networking requirements unsuited for many Edge scenarios where you often have flakey or failing networking, surprisingly low limits in terms of total numbers of nodes/pods, etc etc.

Many have tried forcing it (when all you know is Kube, everything looks like a Kube problem) though.
Too much KSP?
This surely merits another Message Duplication section.
Jeff always seemed to me like a good guy with positive energy.
This is the sort of bug which pre-announcement coordination is designed for. Anyone who doesn't have patches ready was either forgotten (I've seen a few instances of "I thought you were going to tell them!") or isn't on the ball.
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Yes, you're probably right.

I believe (?) the intention is also to publish Impeller as a standalone rendering engine (i.e. independent of Flutter). Will be interesting to see if there's a use case there too.
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I'm saying that the UK should have done one of the following:

* Recognized that DAB was not capable enough given the number of stations required, and waited.

or:

* Cut back on the number of stations so that the remaining ones could be broadcast at an acceptable quality.
From the FT article:

> As part of that, Airbus will assume the work that Spirit does for its A220 and A350 aircraft programmes at several sites around the world, including Northern Ireland, the US, France and Morocco.
I was getting ready to write an angry comment that you've got an error in your thinking / maths, because my intuition tells me that doesn't feel right.

I've run the numbers myself and am still in disbelief that raising 1,000 kg by 1 meter is the energy equivalent of an AA battery (= 20% iPhone 15 charge)
Even if it means the attack takes 10x as long, it doesn't seem to be limited by bandwidth, only time. Might not take long before the bots appear that try to automatically exploit this on scale.
Or, as in Sheffield in the UK misaligned incentives: the company that was paid to manage the trees realised it was cheaper for them to cut them down, so started labelling trees as diseased that weren't.
In general, this is only going to be possible if you crop a whole number of macroblocks. Worse, codecs do intra-prediction so you can't delete macroblocks which are used for other blocks you want to keep.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590a/07au/lect...
"The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" could be interesting to you. The framework it presents tries to explain attention and world models, and does so quite convincingly in my opinion.
The photo in the article looks amazing! You basically don't see a city, you see a vast woodland! An occasional rooftop peeking through here and there are the only signs of civilization.

I'd love to live in a place like that. London is a very green city by many standards, but it is nowhere close to appearing like the unbroken forest in the article. In fact, the thing I miss the most after having moved to the UK are the forests. Most of it is private and fenced off, and it's just tiny patches of woods anyway. It's interesting how different it is compared to Switzerland for example, where one can roam freely (at risk of being chased by an occasional herd of curious cows) and there are plenty of forests where one can escape civilization.
We do need laws. A parent cannot fight a fight versus ten-twenty billion/trillion dollar companies. Sugar in your cornflakes, sounds and graphics in your games, insane tracking on ads, and so on.

Those a-holes end up knowing more about your kid than you. And if you try to "fight" them by blocking their access to your kid, they got so many kids hooked up already that the exposure to garbage is unavoidable by some kid whose parents lost the fight or didn't bother to begin with.

A law will protect your kid from gambling in games with "chest full of surprises", and so on.
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Ah, I didn't know something like this existed, I thought you were talking about player-hosted lobbies.
Or with Lazarus, I've tested it a year or so back. Under 50KB, IIRC, for a CLI Hello world app, though, not a GUI one. Similar size with a D app.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about so just to be clear: the OC specified it was the legal availability of drugs in Orgeon rather than anything to do with the climate or altitudes of Florida and Oregon. Hope that helps clear up your confusion.
The Onslow pumped hydro scheme is estimated to store 4,000 – 11,000 GWh, with an estimated cost of $16 billion NZD (9.7 billion USD), and be delivered in (at least) 10 years time. Is that a cost of $881-2450 USD per kwhr?

I presume there is ample room for cost blowouts as well.

LiPo cells are currently costing about $110 to 130/kWh (USD), and trending downwards. Now large scale storage batteries are more than just the cells (Tesla megapacks are selling for 1.39M for 3.916 MW or about $410/kwhr), and cells probably wear out quicker than a dam, but it seems the Onslow scheme is not giving great bang for buck. The best you could say for it is that a lot of the spend would stay in NZ because a lot of the spend is in labour.

Am I missing something? Is my math wrong? It seems to me spending 16 billion becoming experts in assembling large scale batteries would be a better long term investment for NZ. And they can get access to the storage as it is build, instead of waiting 10 years.

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/28349-identifying-poten...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/03/06/battery-prices-collap...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack
none of this makes any sense to me
But its trivial to fight against for the parents - just don't give them the damned phone/tablet/tv remote etc. Till teens there is little rational justification, and massive evidence against it.

But then real challenge starts - folks with microscopic attention spans themselves are supposed to actually spend hours with their kids on activities that hardly give any dopamine kicks. Kids are really just a brutally honest mirror image of the parents, and very few parents these days like that.

Had few colleagues recently visiting wedding in Singapore. The stuff they said about the city itself is pretty sad - no western parent they saw was actually raising their own kids, cheap (often abused) nannies from ie Philippines were in charge of that. They allow kids anything, no discipline, no boundaries because who wants to be fired if kids complain. And then when whole family minus mighty nanny goes to ie restaurant, they often saw a parent literally begging 7 year old to have 30 minutes for themselves ('I'll buy you any toy, any food, anything, just give us 30 mins please' kind of story). I wonder why they even bothered having kids these days if they couldn't care less about them afterwards, while giving it all to some empty corporate careers and partying.

Or those 'super parents' who travel with kids in the car a lot. Then you look inside and there are X tablets neatly arranged in the back. Our kids are used to stare outside instead or read books/magazines, important 'boredom management skills' that can't be taught otherwise.
> returning as a CEO of a company which has lots of Government contracts

Spirit has negligible government contracts. They supply Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier.

> Had this happened in Russia or China the Western media would have had no qualms in painting said companies as Government pawns

No. If anything, it would have been pitched as quasi-oligarchic.
It's a bad question. A competent interviewer can figure out what I'm interested in by asking work related questions.
How is this blog generated? With code and latex formulas, it would be exactly what I'm looking for.
(Which is a little less than a AAA battery)
I was looking for something like this. Thank you! Indeed not very interesting, it would take a lot of water and height to store for example 1 KWh.
Does anyone have a "greenery index" of world cities?
> It's pretty obvious that the wings push air down

The air being pushed down is actually a side-effect of the lift-creation process, not the cause of it.

A nice "counter example" is a wing in ground effect (flying very close to the ground), where there is less downwash, because of the ground, and yet the wing produces more lift. It's an effect that can make high aspect-ratio airplanes tricky to land.
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Same could be said for a driver less train I suppose or the auto-pilot on a 747.
> No idea where you got that figure - you're off by a factor of four

From facts, yes. Forgot where I recently saw it, but it was in the amount of energy a datacentre in the South burns. Work backwards from the PR stats, and you get a moderately-large American house’s energy footprint.
It would be nice if you spelled out on your post how you know this, then. Is it written somewhere? A relevant paper for example?
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Cynism and burnout, but if you are in a dysfunctional it's hard to move away from that either way.
The tree just needs to be managed, the whole thing doesn't need to be cut down.

I'm in London on a tree lined street, every year they come and cut branches. If trees are rotten then they are cut (we have a lot of non-native trees).

In this bit of London there's a target to plant much more trees, so any cut down are replaced with a native tree.

Property developers are a different matter, I'm pretty sure the huge tree behind the flat I used to live in was illegally cut down; if the council had been aware it would probably have had a tree protection order put on it.
.NET Framework 3.5 is no longer installed by default starting with Windows 10.
Huh? I've read multiple times that in the UK, private land can't be "fenced off" and the general public has the right to roam on it, as long as they aren't causing a nuisance or getting too close to peoples' homes. Is that only for pastures or something?
There is a very large installed base of machines running on QNX, including medical equipment, radio communications, railway switches, automotive modules, etc. Most manufacturers are upgrading in small steps and absolutely do not want to start from scratch with their software layer.
Most manufacturers are upgrading in small steps and have no desire to start from scratch with their software layer. At best, they will add a touch screen, an arm processor and an Android system, but only for the interface. The critical parts will remain under QNX.
The same is true for VxWorks, a large proportion of industrial PLCs, electrical networks, water and sewage systems depend on VxWorks.
QNX and VxWorks are omnipresent but invisible systems.
West Sydney was rural fields until it was developed during the later half of the 20th century

I’m fairly sure the issue stems from insanely dense urban packing with a refusal to develop almost anything other than single family homes

They try to maximise house size on small blocks leading to an almost impossible block to plant a tree on

———

Also pointing out Greater Western Sydney is one of the worst urban places in the world for tree cover given the climate

I could never afford to live in Sydney, but my late father’s upbringing in the then “poor” North Sydney is starkly different to the quality of life available to the youth in “poor” areas of 21st century Sydney
Or even the currently growing generation - allergies are often not genetic and early exposure can help prevent them.
I'd guess both. Rich places have the money and influence to improve their area, leading to increased property value, in a cycle.
RISC-V is an ISA. There are many processors for it - some open and some proprietary.

An ISA alone doesn't make a fully open processor. You still need buses, which are often proprietary. Even many of the open source RV processors are using ARM's proprietary AMBA/AXI or similar, and few are attempting to use fully-open technologies like Wishbone. You still also need PCIe, USB and other bus technologies to make a consumer grade computer, which are huge tasks and not often undertaken by these RISC-V processors, which are aimed at embedded solutions and come only on SBCs.

IMO, the SBC situation might be holding back open source hardware. Every chip developer also needs to develop their own motherboards. It would be nice if there were some effort to have a more modular open-source motherboard where the CPU can be replaced in a socket rather than using BGA where they're soldered directly onto the motherboard. Preferably it would use Wishbone and come with a set of libraries in Verilog/VHDL/Chisel etc, which could be utilized by chip developers.

And then the next big challenge is developing open-source GPUs and NPUs, since this is where much of the computation happens these days.
That team has some uncommon testing and deployment requirements, and they don't really run a service, so their use of Piper makes some sense to me. Although I agree it's still very weird. They are trying to migrate right now.
> The first two factors should increase Boeing’s leverage.

No because there isn’t another supplier you can easily switch to. You can see this in the outrageous prices they are able to charge Boeing for parts. With chip fabs you can observe their performance in the marketplace and determine which one is good and which is bad. It makes sense to outsource to them because the know-how and capital requirements have grown beyond to what a single chip designer can reasonably do in-house. Even Intel tries to onboard outside customers to its fabs.

Why would you outsource building a plane wing? They are not standardized but different for each plane, they are huge so you can’t exactly build retoolable conveyer belt production lines and amortize this investment over many models.

The only reason to do this is to safe on labor costs and because you don’t want the hassle of doing it yourself, at which point you have become an OEM that just plugs things together. It is primitive MBA thinking that is ignoring 2nd order effects.
Not in Europe though.
Thank you, I'm aware of that and keep my backlight off until the evening. Unfortunately that's not enough, but it's an important point to note!
It never "seemed to be sustained". It was always and obviously an artificial result of vc funding designed to get a market going and obscure the economics until it's established enough that they can get away with changing the deal like uber.

It's illogical to ignore the size of the market and think that there should somehow be a need for just any number of drivers instead of the required number of drivers.

It's illogical to ignore that when prices to customers are artificially low, customers will consume more than when they actually have to pay for what they consume.

Since the driver pool has been paid for by vc funding rather than consumers, there are more drivers than needed. A smaller number of drivers is perfectly sustainable.
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> Finally, if sshd cannot be updated or recompiled, this signal handler
race condition can be fixed by simply setting LoginGraceTime to 0 in the
configuration file. This makes sshd vulnerable to a denial of service
(the exhaustion of all MaxStartups connections), but it makes it safe
from the remote code execution presented in this advisory.
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1. Using a cliched headline style adds authority to your article.

In all seriousness, this article is just a list of unsupported assertions. I agree with many of them because of my own experience. But those with which I disagree, there is nothing to convince me. A much more useful article would explain nuance, risks, consequences, handling strategies.

For example, "Events will arrive in order". What causes that not to happen? Does the number of events, technology used affect it? What are the consequences of believing they will arrive in order, and then discovering they don't? What are the tradeoffs in designing the system to make it happen less frequently vs tolerating them arriving in any order?
As a parent I agree parental reponsiblity is absolute but I haven't seen a workable solution reguarding social media.

I can't realistically monitor what my children are looking 24/7, like I can't listen to every conversation that they have.

I could ban all social media / phones but how is that going to prepare them for life in a world where social media is all encompassing? Plus they likely would be ostracized by their peers.

[I'm talking here about older children, teenagers. We also have a 5 year old and it's pretty easy with him, he doesn't have access to any form of social media.]
> Anything that's not a car has no place in a city.

Erm, I thought cities are for people, not for cars
Nothing if you don't take it personally. There's 'not trusting' in the sense of recognizing that most processes or people are unreliable, including yourself and there's 'not trusting' in the sense of thinking everyone's out to get ya or not living up to your expectations.

The second one largely has to do with ego and is the one that creates insecure people who usually hold others to different standards than themselves, the first is just a realistic view of the world and thus very useful
There will be more like that, but we need to get better at identifying them. Just like with exoplanets.
I'm confident that someone will make a workable exploit against 64-bit systems.