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> And that Nano was tiny, would be cool to have this feature back in current iPhones / Apple Watches.

That iPod used its headphone cables as the radio antenna. There's no easy way around that for a SmartWatch, and most people wouldn't be happy to carry a USB-C antenna dongle around with them for their iPhone.

You can of course start doing black RF magic with more compact antenna designs, but that's much more complex and still has a much larger footprint on the board than the FM receiver in that iPod nano has.
The UK had dining cars on many of its long-distance trains, and they've been slowly phased out over the last decades. Two main causes:

Firstly, it's very difficult to make it profitable, given the limited number of passengers you can serve on a relatively short journey, the staff costs of running a kitchen plus waiting staff for ~10 tables and the limited price you can charge before the reputation of the train company starts to take a hit for "excessively expensive food".

Secondly, British trains on popular routes are now overfull. Capacity is bounded by trains/hour (fixed), maximum train length (fixed, by signal block and platform lengths), and capacity per coach. So we're optimising for the latter: thin seats to maximise density and a loss of luggage vans, kitchens, extra toilets, and other facilities that take up space but don't seat passengers.

The modern standard is a catering trolley that serves coffee and snacks at your seat. Because it lives in the aisle and moves, it doesn't take up revenue space. Because it mostly sells coffee and alcohol, it turns over a lot more per hour with only one staff member.
You hold the conker in one hand and the string in the other with some tension and then release so it pings and bashes the other players conker, hoping to smash it off the string.

Repeat until one conker is smashed into oblivion.

If your conker wins against multiples it becomes named mythically: a twoer, a threer, and so on.

I once had a niner. a fiver took it down.
>>I don't understand what's the message here

You really don't? 8 years ago Tesla did a (fake) video of their car "self driving" on real streets. 8 years of promises and in effort to convice their investors that they are actually making progress towards that goal is.....a movie set with fake streets to drive on? While Waymo is delivering real self driving taxi rides in the real world? What isn't clear about this message to you, exactly?
The idea that a swan can "break a man's arm with a blow of its wing" is (or was) ingrained enough into the British psyche that Peter Cook's comic creation, Arthur Streeb-Greebling, once said of his mother that she could "break a swan's wing with a blow of her nose."
Humans drive with only 2 cameras pointed in a single direction. A Tesla has 8 cameras pointing in every direction. So by default it would already have superhuman awareness. But the difficulty is not perception, it is planning. Turns out to drive among other humans on public roads, you need to correctly understand and predict human behaviour first, which is like half the way to AGI.
So you’re saying you want some kind of orthographic zoom?
Because it’s full of people who think it’s great?

Seriously now, content mills like Medium and Substack are simply not appealing to people who want more control over how their site renders. Or in fact, who want any sort of control over their content.

I like my content in Markdown on my own git repository, thank you.
Page 3: "Carly 32D, 21 from Ipswich, thinks EU regulations on conkers is against British traditions"
Well apparently because T stands for template or type, but people also use K and P here, all capitals. And again - ‘T’ for type is not unique to C++.
WordPress is the biggest bowl of spaghetti code in existence! I can't believe it powers 40% of the web! PHP could do tons better - Laravel is a proof that PHP projects could be beautifully coded, readable, and extensible!

I've dealt with WordPress for so many years! It's sickening! Even the overglorified WooCommerce - I won't trust a business with it. I've done only a few sails and I had data loss, and so many issues.

Also, WooCommerce and other popular plugins such as GiveWP abuse the posts system. I've had so many issues causes by patch upgrades, because migrations went bonkers!

Honestly, WP had to be rewritten from scratch 10 years ago. There were some attempts, but they were not supported by Matt. With a rewrite, most plugins and "themes" would have stopped working, but if they are not maintained, they shouldn't be used anyway. I put "themes" in quotes as executable code is not a theme - it's a plugin installed in a different directory!

In general, WordPress is a patch over patches of patches! From mu-plugins (i.e., "must-use") to filters that could hijack the data read from the database - it's nearly impossible to trace which plugins screw up which plugins - even with the help of the overly glorified debugging plugins!

I've participated in a project where the management has decided to migrate a commercial online newspaper from a commercial Python CMS to WordPress - they hired me as I had PHP on my resume and it was hard to find PHP developers in SoCal. Anyway, for over a year, I had to completely remove WordPress from serving customers! Yes, everything was proxied, cached with nginx and optimized ngx_pagespeed (now abandoned). At the time, no commercial WP plugin could keep our website up! For example, an earthquake would take our website down, too, because people would go on our website to check for information and guess what happens if tens of thousands of people want to see the same page when according to the cache it's expired - there was no queue and it would generate 10,000 requests trying to regenerate the same homepage, which was making well over 500 DB calls to render!!!

WordPress hasn't changed much since! Yeah, PHP 7+ is much better, but it is still multi-process. The number of processors is determined by your available memory, and WordPress sometimes uses a lot of memory. That's why the only solution is heavy caching on all tiers!
The python runs on another machine and is just communicating with the ring. You don't run it on the ring itself.
> Both from the technical and the marketing point of view having a car that can do better than any human ever could, even in the most optimal of conditions would be a great thing.

Given that the leading causes for road accidents are speeding, DUI and distractions [1], a car doesn't need to be better than any human reasonably can. It just needs to be on the same level as a well-rested, sober human without a phone in their hand.

The decision LIDAR vs cameras is the pareto principle in action: what matters is the 80% - the mass that causes the most accidents.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...
It's cost - LIDARs aren't cheap. Tesla is set up as a consumer car company first and a robotaxi company second, costs matter even more. They could jack up the price of the final product, but presumably it wasn't worth it (at least in his mind?). From a safety perspective more sensors in general are better, if integrated properly. With LIDAR prices are coming down I wonder if he will someday swallow his pride and reintegrate them.
I'm not sure if it qualifies as mixing logical levels but I once tracked down a printer bug where the PDF failed to print.

The culprit was an embedded TrueType font that had what (I think) was a strange but valid glyph name with a double forward slash instead of the typical single (IIRC whatever generated the PDF just named the glyphs after characters so /a, /b and then naturally // for slash). Either way it worked fine in most viewers and printers.

The larger scale production printer on the other hand, like many, converted to postscript in the processor as one of its steps. A // is for an immediately evaluated name in postscript so when it came through unchanged, parsing this crashed the printer.

So we have a font, in a PDF, which got turned into Postscript, by software, on a certain machine which presumably advertised printing PDF but does it by converting to PS behind the scenes.

A lot of layers there and different people working on their own piece of the puzzle should have been 'encapsulated' from the others but it leaked.
Maybe not skyscrapers but very high tourism rental apartment buildings.

You can look at the Belgian coast for an example of this enshitification of coastal real estate.
I love the landing page of the investment management company that decided to take their money back. They didn't even bother to update template content. This is when your clients find you not through the web search :D when you can have such landing page.

https://sandialp.com/about/
> just hard enough that it hasn't been progressed for decades

That's the thing, though: it doesn't need to progress, it's essentially solved. At least, for our current usage
I presume there is a bigger game here. Androids, eg humanform robots, will require the capacity to navigate on camera alone.

Specifically, loads of object detection with smaller objects, imagine an android cleaning off a table after dinner. Visual spectrum, camera identification is vital here.

So it's all one ball of wax. Tesla is not juet a car company, likely in 5 years the number of androids they sell will dwarf car sales.
> to the point that it feels the next industrial revolution is just around the corner

Ah yes, the never-ending corner.
> One of the things she was complaining about was participating in new manager training.

She specifically mentions feeling like it overwhelming and ineffective. That's not the same as complaining that she had to do it, which is what your comment implies.

) However, even as an experienced manager, I felt overwhelmed by the number of videos I had to watch. Also, I didn't feel that they were the most effective way to learn.
What are the health and safety risks from this game? Do the chestnuts fragment violently when they break up?
The FreeBSD Code of Conduct mentions being welcoming to people regardless of religion, but by using imagery that explicitly comes from religious depictions of evil in their logo they're blatantly being unwelcoming to a lot of religious people. Would they react differently (albeit more politely) if someone complained today, now the Code of Conduct exists, especially as 'fixing' this would require a full rebrand?

I think the hotel guest was right to complain, and in my understanding of the Bible as a Christian I would say it is appropriate to refuse to do business with someone using such images, but also the image does not have any 'power'. That is, it is potentially immoral to associate with it, but the image shouldn't be 'scary' to any Christian, it's just a picture.
Since nothing in the known laws of physics explicitly prohibit it, I think it's safe to say that quantum computing will some day work, in the same sense that nuclear fusion or interstellar human travel may work. Unlike e.g. faster-than-light travel, which will probably not work.

But in practice? On Earth, with our human society and economics? Hell, I don't know...

One pessimistic view is that QCs, being such complex and expensive engineering projects, will always be like flying cars: useful in theory, but other solutions are "good enough" and are cheaper. Quantum computers have to really, really advance a lot before they can actually solve problems better, cheaper, and/or faster than classical computers. The danger is that funding will end before we reach that point.

Another important point is that most progress seems to be in specifically superconducting quantum computers (IBM and the company I work at both produce QCs of this type). Superconducting QCs are very hard to scale; it's an incredibly difficult task to scale from hundreds of physical qubits (best chips today) to thousands/millions (necessary for error correction). I'd say it's more difficult than the task of colonizing the solar system. But there are other approaches to building quantum computers. One promising theoretical idea is topological QC [1]. Microsoft is betting on this; it it works, it may make superconducting QCs idea obsolete, like transistors made vacuum tubes obsolete.

I keep comparing QCs with interstellar travel because it's equally hard to answer questions about the possibility of the latter when human seemingly still can't figure out how to stop killing each other.

Anyway, I think humans made impossible things possible in the past. Splitting the atom, sending probes to other planets, landing on the moon, discovering new particles, etc. So I'm optimistic in general.

P.S. I gave a talk on quantum computing hardware & software recently; the organizers uploaded it to YouTube as unlisted, and want to make it public later. If anyone's interested, send me an email to hello[at]rakhim.org, and I'll send you the link.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer
I'm an 80s kid and we passionately played conkers at my primary school. We used to hang them on shoe laces or string, by burning a hole through the middle with a heated awl or kebab rod.

Cheating was always rife with people using all manner of techniques to try to preserve and strengthen their conkers: soaking in vinegar, baking them, coating in nail varnish, &c.

Pretty sad to hear it's fallen out of fashion, as it was good, cheap fun and, with long enough string, not very dangerous.
I can't imagine so. A match is over when one persons conker is destroyed. If you were purposefully missing, you'd be throwing the game. Theirs would still take a battering from hitting yours as well.
What do you mean by "no proxy"?
A quick google will get you websites of primary schools up and down this great nation with photos of their Conkers champions holding up their trophies.

As for "the law" - from a 2019 petition to make conkers legal again:

There's no law or government policy banning children from playing conkers, so we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/238105
Anecdotal reports, all of them true I'm sure:

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-24...

Lovely read!
Turbulence for an airliner is going to be experienced differently for an airship. I'm not sure what to expect, TBH, but the difference between a plane moving at Mach 0.8 and an airship moving at 80 mph will definitely be real.
one answer is due to the fact that humans also do this with just 2 pretty bad cameras and a lot of offloading to the cortex.

It also simplifies the stack a lot to have a single set of sensors, so the software becomes mostly: getting good training data (iterative loops from failing production cases) and an efficient training algorithm.

This scales to more than just AD and also can leverage new breakthroughs from academia
Depends where you are - I went to a very modest comprehensive in Scotland and yet we still went skiing at weekend to Cairngorm because it was close.
musk's track record of bets is 4 out of 6[0] - a pretty good one.

[0]: the successful bets: paypal, tesla, spacex, starlink. Failures: twitter, self-driving. To be determined: ai.
accidentally hitting each other
Nice, but it would be a lot nicer if it could do digital modes like DMR, Fusion etc.
Well, this discussion is in the context of airships, so there's no question that everything that doesn't require potential energy to defeat gravity and to stay in position is more efficient.

The most efficient solution is btw not doing anything, and just leave the goods where they are produced, and stop producing too much for the own population. I'm pointing out that the concepts of finance and economies don't necessarily come hand in hand with what's more efficient to build. Otherwise people would use trains and not cars and planes.
For a historical comparison, Roman Centurions had teams of 60-80. They started out with 100, but that was too many.

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

I don't think all of them were getting weekly one-on-ones, though.
Why is it a problem then to take it and have it replaced by newer and safer bills?

In countries that do introduce newer standards, you can still take old bills to the central bank and convert them.

I don’t buy that argument. It doesn’t make sense, especially compared to the immense damage of fraud.
Israel races to supply anti-missile shield
Another voice here of someone (in my 30s) who played conkers growing up. Was great fun!
> So far he seems to be terribly wrong on self-driving.

Don't forget the colonisation of Mars. He's even more wrong on that one.
It's almost certainly because he dug the hole so deep in advertising. By saying "we need LIDAR", means that his promise "your car that you own right now will someday be self driving" was a lie. I can't imagine the lawsuits.
And then there are only other 65654867142 species the scientists should increase the tolerance to heat, ash, plastics, oil and a few others, and we're done!
The acronym was basically there from Day 1, I am not the Person who came up with it and I also wasn't there at Day 1.
I dunno guys, I've become really, really used to the whole "wired in" protocol where if you have fully over-ear headphones on, it means you are either in heads-down coding or writing mode, or you are on a call. It works as long as everyone observes it. But maybe they don't and hence the demand for this product. It just adds another layer of complexity to office politics.
https://archive.ph/bixZV
I wonder how the mood is at SpaceX. I mean, those engineers see how he unsafe the production workers at Telsa have to work, they see how shit he's treating everyone at Twitter and basically sinking it, how long before someone the mood turns sour and we see an outflow to the competition?
The most recent Brownlee video of it was spot on IMO: https://youtu.be/fgm5uZaS3-E?si=Wkf4_vxGEtaS0eNa
I'm not necessarily talking about bike races... for commuter bikes that you have to lug up and down stairs into your basement, every gram counts.

My e-bike is somewhat around 20 kg, that thing is a tank in its own right, and it's hell to haul around when our beloved Deutsche Bahn once again manages to fuck up elevators.
Biology makes me thing if the universe/consciousness itself it's a product on information parsing itself, making that 'essence' or 'soul' (on how they defined it the Ancients) a truth beyond matter.
No, not something religious, but more related to computation.
But for this we should accept that 'data' it's an intrinsic part of Physics, not just matter.

I would like an intro to Thermodynamics, but IDK where to start.
You should aim for something easy to generate like a YAML snippet, and then upload that.

I have built a series of shortcuts on iOS that call out to Azure OpenAI to provide me with two kinds of things:

- a YAML entry for my resource/link tables with title, date, url, link text, and a notes field that summarizes the content

- a link blog content draft with all the front matter and a bulleted list of an article’s summary and a few topics I want to cover when writing the actual post

Both go into the clipboard and the notes fields in the Reminders app so I can either move straight into an editor to post (which happens via git) or pick them up later on a Mac.

So anywhere I find something interesting to write about, I just use the iOS share sheet to capture it.

Here’s what it suggested as front matter for your comment:

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Quantifying Political Neutrality in LLM-Generated News Summaries
His track record for being behind all these mindblowing innovations is off the record, but we don't like his face, so he doesn't deserve any credit for it!
<The reason? Schools have banned the game of conkers due to health and safety reasons.>

I understood that was a myth created from a few isolated instances and the medias general desire to wind people up. I don't know why it has died out mind.
My first job had a huge QA team. It was my job to work quickly and it was their job to find the issues. This actually set me up really poorly because I got in the habit of not doing proper QA.
There were at least 10 people doing it for me. When I left it took awhile for me to learn what properly QAing my own worked looked like.
I can't really visualize the amount of momentum involved, or how sharp the chestnut is. Is that specifically about eye injuries, or could it hurt someone some other way?
Just found this on the Conker championships - https://youtu.be/q8CYrM9xkUc
Why not have at least radar? Plenty of cars have radar for adaptive cruise control and blind spot monitoring, it can't be that expensive. Two sensor kinds would still be an improvement.
> The Farthest (Al-Aqsa) Mosque being in Jerusalem is a recent invention.

Do you have any evidence that Muslims have only "recently" started to claim it is in Jerusalem? From what I understand, they were already claiming that well over 1000 years ago.

> The night journey is said to have happened in 621, but the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built in 637 when the Muslims captured Jerusalem. So the Al-Aqsa Mosque of the Quran is not the one currently called the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Standard explanation for this: "Al-Aqsa Mosque" has two senses, a broad sense and a narrow sense. In the broad sense, it is the entire complex of Islamic religious structures on the Temple Mount, centered on the Dome of the Rock. In a narrow sense, it is the main congregational prayer hall in that complex, the current building of which was constructed in the 1030s. The 637 structure you mention was a temporary wooden structure, which by the next century was replaced by a much grander stone one, which went on to twice be destroyed by earthquakes.

So, since in the broad sense "Al-Aqsa Mosque" means the whole Temple Mount complex, of course the Temple Mount pre-existed the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem in 637 (around 5 years after Muhammad's death), and it was there for Muhammad to have supernaturally visited in 621 (if one believes he went on such a supernatural journey, I personally don't)

Indeed, according to many Muslim accounts, the site Muhammad visited in 621 was not the site of the narrow sense mosque, it was the rock which the Dome of the Rock now covers.
You have a fair point in general, but in this particular case I think the guest is overreacting, and accommodating such people borders being tolerant to intolerance.
I mean, human eyes are in some very important ways better. Not least, they're self cleaning and can adjust their angle for a better view.
It's right around the corner. The evidence that Musk is actually really dumb is riiiiight around the corner. And will continue to be, for a very long time.
I just found this on the conker championships, quite funny. https://youtu.be/q8CYrM9xkUc
It's this thread, did you suffer HNception? :)
they did have a swapping station in CA they built to get the subsidy. it wasnt fake, just pointless
Thank you, mark knopfler /j
> a movie set with fake streets to drive on? While Waymo is delivering real self driving taxi rides

"Tesla FSD Supervised Tops 1.6 Billion Total Miles Driven": https://teslanorth.com/2024/08/07/tesla-fsd-supervised-1-6-b...

Seems obvious that movie sets are like red carpets, no?
Greed. His fortune depends on it.
Counter-example: IONQ Inc whose stock jumped up after a recent military contract.
This, and that when you get involved in politics, a big percentage of people is going to scrutinize you more thoroughly. Before, it was fun to believe everything he said, but now it is less so.
You don't have to imagine, it happened several times.
They’re doing well in spite of Musk, not because of him. Shotwell is running that company not him.
I agree with the tesla stuff but last I checked waymo had self driving only for pre-mapped roads and a lot of human assistance in the background. There was a lot of fuss about it when veritasium released a sponsored video about them.