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> wouldn’t have destroyed millions of dollars of value,

Did you see the photo? It’s a small house that definitely did not cost “millions” to build. The $5 million is in the lot, which they were trying to take from her via courts.

The value of the lot comes from the location and the view, which are not easily replaceable in a place like Hawaii, even from one adjacent lot to the next. I bet the house could be destroyed with negligible change of the value of the property, if any at all. So nobody is destroying “millions of dollars of value” in this situation.

Regardless, can you imagine the implications if a developer could just build on whatever lot they wanted and then the owner had to be forced to accept some other land in exchange? If that was true, I guarantee a lot of other developers would start “accidentally” building on nicer lots too.
Ahh but working out makes you sleep better. The workouts dont even need to be intense!
This scenario happens far more often than most people realise, putting up a building on the wrong plot of land. If you are not going to do your due diligence then you will suffer the consequences.

If you build on the wrong plot, the only person to blame is yourself.
Except I don't think we can consider the city's debt load to be related to trying to solve the poverty problem at all. It seems quite the opposite based on the discussion in this thread. I haven't read anything about any of that money going to any poverty-related social programs other than making poor people's lives harder.

I'm more inclined to think poverty, like most complex problems, requires actions at practically all levels, ranging from familial, local, state, and national actions. One of the downsides to federalism is it creates a way for people to absolve themselves of any responsibility. As long as I pay my taxes, it's "not my problem" to solve. Ironically, most people acknowledge it's the people closest to the problem who are in the best position to solve it. It's also hard to expect these problems to be solved nationally when roughly half the population wants to see the federal government reduced.
One issue is that this is mixing civilizations where we have a written historical record with civilizations where we don't have that and rely on archeology alone.

The problem with that, is that the historical record allows much finer grained distinctions which makes the civilizations seem shorter, while the archeological record can not have those distinctions which makes them seem longer

For example, without the historical record, could we really distinguish between Ancient Rome and Roman Empire. Or between Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom Egypt? Or between the various Chinese empires since there has been a continuity of civilization and culture even across the various empires.

So this article ends up averaging two very different things.

In addition, some of the numbers are suspect. For example, Byzantine Empire is listed at 350 years. Most scholars would agree that the fall of the Byzantine Empire is 1453 with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. The latest date for the considering the empire "Byzantine" would be 800 with the coronation of Charlemagne as split from western Europe. This gives over 600 years. If you take 476 (fall of Western Roman Empire) as the start of the Byzantine Empire, that gives almost 1000 years.
it's 5x the price of llama3/qwen2 70b. the performance on the benchmark is similar. but with 70b you can break a task in steps and do 5+ steps. doesn't seem like it is worth it in general cases for the price. is 340 better for synthetic data generation (which is my primary usecase) are there tests for that? seems like synthetic data would benefit from multi step reasoning and reduction of hallucination and in those tests, the difference is small.
Sure, repetitive tasks may get replaced in the short time depending on the complexity, but, the way I see it, there will always be a human need, new jobs of higher complexity and creativity will be created, and maybe there will be less jobs overall, but predictable jobs being replaced always happen with new advances in technology, whether that's a good thing or not :)
I think we have much in common. Yes, I remember ExtJS. But not Delphi.

Yes, I remember the innovation of React and how it was a huge step forward relative to jQuery.

Roughly ten years ago, I used Clojure often, so I got to see the emergence of Om, then Reagent, and more. Somewhere along that time I saw Elm. Now, I see the innovation of Dioxus in the Rust + WebAssembly world. These developments were/are impressive. Part of fully appreciating them means embracing what they do better than JavaScript -- and many of these differences are incompatible with JavaScript's evolution. In a word, these other technologies are better largely because they have found a way to "break free".

If I were to try to "make a point" it would be probably be this: JavaScript, at any point in time, has been both useful and painful. Along the way, it has evolved remarkably well. The pain has lessened. With the birth of TypeScript, the experience is even more improved. But nevertheless, even with all the improvements, in some ways we're still paying down the "tech debt" rooted in some early decisions.

Some of the pain isn't necessarily around fundamental tech debt as much as community splintering. For example, I have a hunch, though I'm not an expert, that the Tower of Babel of JS tooling (such as bundling systems) may be resolved at some point. But I don't think this is likely until something else happens...

I look forward to a future where WebAssembly affords a direct, first-class, interface to the browser and DOM that provides high-quality, zero-cost abstractions. As great as WebAssembly is, there is still a considerable kludge in terms of how data is moved around at the interface between JS and WebAssembly. When this happens, it will arguably be a tremendous achievement -- to decouple web applications from the unnecessary constraints of JavaScript's historical choices.

I have a hope/prediction that stronger "competition" at the level of interfacing between the browser and the choice of language will spur better thinking and tooling. This gives me hope that the complexity of TS compilation + JS bundlers can give way to some elegant tooling, more along the lines of what the Rust community has achieved with Cargo.
Now I wonder whether the rent changed.
Reminds me of the sci-fi plot about a group of people traveling to another planet around another star to populate it.

Except when arriving they find it is already populated by people who left decades or hundreds of years later thanks to improvements in rocket technology.
if you're the type of ruthless criminal who would commit horrific crimes like downloading a car, your diseased conscience may enable you to use pirate websites like library genesis to get it for free.
Apple Disables WebKit's JIT in Lockdown Mode
Having read that article, I have to say that is spot on!
I don't feel any sympathy for the developer either: I feel bad for the trees that had to be cut down, the materials that had to be mined and processed, the heavy machinery that had to be moved to that location and burn gallons of fuel, the workers that had to spend their time building it all. All that will be destroyed, some valuable materials will be recycled but the bulk will be dumped in a landfill somewhere. Just the waste of it all. And just because some developer, the city, and many other parties along the way couldn't exercise due diligence. And at the end, there was so much spite between the party that no one could come to an agreement that allowed this building to stand.
With a fixed capacity, someone’s traffic is going to be rejected. I think it makes sense to have a variable rate limit depending on available capacity and demand.
I think this is a case of the lawyer just trying anything for their client, but honestly it makes them look like giant assholes.
Agree. The fixed canvas size in Jamboard is incredibly annoying and limiting.
True, but that’s not how most sensors actually work. For example consider a weighing scale. If it says 10.1kg, why would we use a normal distribution?
Elo Musk could finish that in a year /s
If that german citizen stepped foot in the USA, they might get arrest for espionage. But I highly doubt a German court/judge is going to approve an arrest warrant for a presumably sanctioned activity. Now, if a private german citizen wiretapped the USA's president's phone for the lulz then yeah they might get arrested and extradited.

Whether or not something is illegal is in the eye of the beholder and IIUC, Title 50 Section 36 explicitly makes espionage legal [1] (when done by the US against other people).

[1]: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title50/cha...
I was pretty sure I was about to get in trouble when I messaged "wake up" to a kid that fell asleep at his computer and he called the teacher over. The computers were named numerically and in the same order they were laid out in the room, so they could have looked at the printed label on his machine, and the name of the machine the message came from, and counted over to me just as easily as I counted over to him, but they just puzzled over it for a second and dropped it.
Apple has exclusive control over a market (AppStore), which has almost 2 million different products (Apps), 820,000 suppliers (app publishers) and over 1 billion customers which conducts more trade than the entire GDP of Luxemburg.

Happy Meals are a product, not a market.

If you can't see why one is subject to anti-trust laws and abuse of a monopoly, I can't help you. but regulators are taking action.
That does make a difference, but not that much of a difference. Reading between the lines, the issue here seems to be that the city doesn't keep records of what is underground that can be referred to during the planning process - the "they unexpectedly found a maze of Con Edison gas and steam lines" quote sounds expensive.

Possibly they should consider engaging some sort of dial-before-you-dig program - https://newyork-811.com/homeowners/ sounds promising on a quick search - or keeping better records. This situation sounds a bit weird to me, I'm not sure how they made the mistakes the article is suggesting they made.
Seaborn, plotly, datashader, etc. all exist to wrap matplotlib and they are wildly successful. Is there some reason an equally good interface couldn’t be written in elisp?
"Natural" rights are clearly a social construction, and indeed largely the same thing that was theologically justified with God.

They were literally just invented few hundred years ago. And have even changed since then (owning another human being was somehow a natural/god given right). Humans have organized (and keep on organizing) without any such conception for at least tens of thousands of years, but suddenly its natural?

Who is the absolute arbiter of "evil"? USA of course holds itself as a force for good, and e.g. islamism as evil. Islamists do the opposite. Very rarely anybody thinks themselves as evil, but readily point out evil in others.

This is in no way to support islamism, or USA. Just that morality is just mostly an arbtrary justification for whatever somebody wants to or doesn't want to get done.

We can discuss the merits and shortcomings of e.g. ownership based on its societal consequences just fine without conjuring metaphysics.
I’ve never really understood punishment.(directed from humans, I’m all for putting kids into challenging situations and letting them learn from the world) Shouldn’t we be teaching kids self restraint and intrinsic motivation? Like I’m not hoping that my kid grows up to be someone that just blindly pursued pleasure / avoids pain, I hope they use they’re frontal cortex.

The only think being punished as a kid ever taught me was not to take the person punishing me seriously and strategies for avoiding that person.
There is a proprietary agent in my system collecting the data and sending it to the monitoring tool in a proprietary format. It's still quite simple and easy to parse though.

However getting the data in Datadog is not a problem. The problem is losing ready to use monitoring tools and apps designed to work for my specific software and having to configure a much more flexible tool as Datadog to do things I already have available.
As determined by Boards filled with other CEOs.

I'm pretty sure that SE salaries would be much higher if the only people allowed to determine their salaries were their peers.
I worked on an app that was using Java Web Start still, as of January 2023. It was a problem, because JWS was not included in the parts of Java that were open-sourced, and was not available as part of recent OpenJDK versions of Java. Some open source JWS implementations exist, when I left that job though, the situation had still not been resolved in terms of finding a JWS replacement. It was imperative that we get off Oracle Java because of their expensive upcoming licensing changes. I wonder what ever happened..........
How does him being one man and his opponent being at least a ("several"???) government change the fact that the seven years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy were by his own choice?

That half of his “years of torment” were a legal tactic on his part.
Serious question: How is that different from anarchy?
Stalin was a Georgian.
Post Office Horizon replacement project 'unachievable', exceeds £1B
> I unjustly enriched you, give me money

Ironically, in the mail, we have protections for that. By law, you may keep unsolicited merchandise and are under no obligation to pay for it.

Thus: I consider the contractor to be a private courier that delivered a building upon my land. I didn't solicit this merchandise (house), and I'm not paying for it.
At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?
Yeah, I don't have a division between the planes unless I choose to. I can separate them, but it's just as easy to keep them together. I think of them as the "inside" and "outside" planes, the only major distinction between them being that other people can only see things in the outside plane. They're not separated in position unless I want them to be.

For what it's worth, I can also hear them. I carry on conversations with people who aren't physically in the room all the time. For example. (My doc assures me that this is fine as long as I know they're not in the room and I don't trust what they say without verifying!) It's extremely useful for bouncing ideas around, even if it's really only an elaborate way of thinking about something by myself in several ways. I find it intuitively easier to discuss something with another person than just to sit and think about it.

I will say it's not much of a tactile sense, though. I can use my hands to manipulate things if I want, but I don't feel them nearly as clearly as I can see and hear them. I guess I also just don't do this as often, because how something physically feels isn't usually terribly important to me. Same reason I look at and listen to a lot more things for information in the outside plane than I touch.
In 2021 the company received €200 million from the Croatian government and the EU to develop a self-driving car, presumably to compete with US companies. However, they ended up using Mobileye technology. The initial goal was to have the cars on the road by 2024, which everyone knew was unrealistic. Now, the launch is supposedly targeted for 2026 but that's probably unrealistic as well.

During the presentation, they attempted to summon the car twice, but it failed to move. A photo from the event shows an employee holding what appears to be an industrial-grade remote controller.
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In Canada, flipping the bird is a God-given right.

"Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian. It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly. Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/middle-finger-god-gi...
Sorry Rimac Tesla already took the "We're not a car company we're an autonomous driving company" slot.
This headline seems a bit misleading. It’s not $1,000 is cash. It’s actually:

- $500 in “Uber Cash” redeemable in the Uber app for car trips, or Lime bike and scooter share.

- $200 voucher redeemable for car rental or carshare.

- $300 across other transportation modes, such as public transit.
> Last updated 2024-06-26 UTC

Located at the bottom of the page.

Typically if a page is no longer relevant but recently updated (like this page was), it would be denoted as such right up top.
Right, and adware/spyware (which are in practice the same thing) is malware, and is objectively more harmful than surreptitious crypto miners. One just wastes energy. The other wastes energy, spies on you, and attempts to use the information it gathers on you to exploit your psychology and turn you into more of a consumer, or in some cases just outright run scams on you. Background crypto miners are a far more honest and direct payment mechanism.
> all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place.

People seeking asylum in the UK receive £49.18 per week[1], and get thrown into monstrously low quality accommodation - the current government essentially throws them into prison barges[2].

You really should read something other than tabloids. The reality of the situation is nothing like what you’ve described.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get
[2] https://theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/14/people-o...
But that's exactly what is happening here. Talking about carmel, it is a suburb of indianapolis. It depends on indy for its residents' income that fuels its taxes. It depends on the relative poverty of the surrounding metro area for low wage workers where it wants them, and it saves money by not spending on services they need, forcing them into the nearby communities instead.

This is the extractive relationship you're worried about. It's the same deal with singapore! It is critically dependent on the labor of impoverished disenfranchised malaysians it keeps as close as possible but avoids spending any of its resources on. As always it is simply the poor subsidizing the rich.
I don't think any idea that puts more responsibility on centralized government is destined for great success until there are stronger movements to force the governments in question to behave pro-socially. As it stands in the U.S. the federal government spends much more than the biggest 50 companies in the world combined and the benefits we see from that are disgustingly small.

I would love to see people find ways to make centralized government a value add in our lives, but as it stands there are too many people who want to continue to pile onto there responsibility regardless of the outcomes.
These look like shit. Yeah I guess it's kinda cool you can make them with nothing but text but I dunno man, I could think of a dozen ways to make all of these shots that wouldn't have the sides of every object threatening to melt in the next frame. More difficult and cost more, I mean yeah, but again, then it won't look like a computer is hallucinating your scenes while also tripping on mushrooms.

If this is indeed the "future of making movies," I dunno, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no interest in watching anything made this way. Sorry. If you don't care enough about your project to do something besides AI prompts, I don't think you have anything to say that I need to hear.
The purpose of tech workers is to increase the ROI on compute capital for the 0.1% that own most all stocks.

This group has captured all the technology induced productivity gains since the 70s from nearly all of society as a %, so their system is working extremely well on average (for them).
I hope they follow that guideline, looks good to me.

But being a cynic, in the past when I see good guidelines posted, it is not long before all the exact opposite happens and the guidelines are meaningless :(
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Ars has a lot more detail in this article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasas-commercial-space...

It seems Axiom has been focused on a suit for Artemis interior and moon operations while Collins was specifically developing one for in-orbit EVAs, which is a separate beast.

Assuming they hand full reigns to Axiom, congrats to that team! But it does seem likely this means delays, as they now have to develop an additional suit for an additional and distinct use case. Good time to be job hunting in this field, perhaps.

For those interested, Cleo Abrams recently put out a great video testing an Axiom prototype and discussing many of the design challenges being worked on with the Axiom team.

https://youtu.be/FerFv7BZAwo
Never changed, it’s still 88 cents per year. However utilities are not included so they make up the majority of the cost.
Sure, and we can’t know the minds of others, so the hypothesis is unprovable either way. I would say that public enquiry followed by a trial (if warranted) seems a generally worse outcome for potential defendants, than the other way around, given that it gives the prosecution a lot more time to get their case solid, and given that there’s no risk of hitting double jeopardy restrictions.

If I was at the center of this, I’d prefer to have a trial before an inquiry, rather than inquiry followed potentially by a trial.
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> However, in about 10% of the instances in which AlphaFold2 was “very confident” about its prediction (a score of at least 90 out of 100 on the confidence scale)

I wonder what that confidence score means... If it is 90% probability, then we'd expect it to be wrong 10% of the time
Unjust enrichment is mostly supposed to be if you knew they were doing work at your place when they weren't supposed to be.

Say your neighbor pays to redo their backyard. Install a big outdoor kitchen, install a fancy pool with a water slide, etc.

They mix up which yard is which. You see them come into your yard and start digging. You think "maybe I should stop them..." but don't. Instead, you let them build out a $100,000 backyard setup in your yard over the next week.

You could have stopped them. You were there. The construction workers saw you were home and saw you leave and come back several times during the week. There's no doubt you were aware of the unpaid construction work being done. Instead, you waited until all the work was completed.

In this case there's practically little way this owner, who lived over 2,000mi away from the property, would have reasonably known this construction was happening. This is why that case was thrown out.
> The Germans needed North Stream blown up and Ukraine invaded in order to understand that they shouldn't have relied on Russian gas to grow their economy. Some of Germans I've spoken to still don't get it as of today

This is like an abusive husband who tells the wife how the beatings are for her owm good!
Using a lightly culturally offensive word, I.e. a rude word aimed at nobody, or at a group defined by the harm they cause, is not the same as using a serious socially offensive word, I.e. an abusive word aimed at, or including, innocent people.

Such as “[insert deeply disrespectful term associated with systematic denegration, unfair treatment, hate or violence aimed at any group that includes people innocent of causing some systematic intentional harm to others]”.

“Enshitification” is another rude word not aimed at anyone innocent, but whose unpleasantness memorably represents dramatically repellant and even harmful behavior.
Sadly public defenders are in wildly short supply, some articles I’ve read even describe it as a crisis. They simply can’t keep up with the caseloads.
Quick note that there isn't a UK legal system. Article relates to England and Wales.
What is the state of Alan's Developer Experience and what we are working on?
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