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> They're international businesses with engineering teams, and a constant feed of low-level operatives who can scam governments about how blind they are if the governments leave any hole in their system.

I don't know about your country, but in my country the government is pretty keen on avoiding abuses of the benefits system. After all, a blind person gets tax breaks and cash benefits totalling about $5000/year.

So the existing system is used to dealing with financially motivated adversaries. I doubt the additional financial motivation of being able to bypass hCaptcha would mean much, in comparison.
Sure, add that to the list of disclaimers in the small print so that the customer from the next town over will have something to reference when the dealer cannot sell them the car for the advertised price.

The problem is that cars are not treated like most other commodities. E.g. You don't have to buy a license to use a microwave or register it with the government. The closest analog is if you live somewhere with sales tax.
is the more accurate baseline having food, 3 mortgages, a new phone and a laptop?
Indeed… and if it's really problematic, a client-side script can run some expensive calculations as well (the same way captchas do it), to make it extra uninteresting to target unless someone is really motivated and has the budget for it.
Because those compilers are mostly sponsored by OS companies to outsource their software development costs in part.

Also notice that all compilers for scenarios where liability is actually imposed, like in physical goods, most compilers are closed source, proprietary, and certified.
> You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which

I suppose, if we ignore accents and heteronyms... both of which English is famous for, unfortunately!
I guess the question comes down to how does one know if the battery pack is good? When I buy a regular used gas car, I can get all sorts of diagnostics about it out of the OBD2 port, pull a spark plug and stick a scope into the combustion chamber to see if there's any issues (e.g. on the walls).

With an electric car, how can one tell if the pack has been charged all the way up to 100% all the time (vs. the much better 40-70% range)?

This is the "term premium" of batteries it seems, and I honestly don't know if there's a reliable answer.
PHEVs generally weigh much less than a full EV with equivalent range. Doesn’t seem very wasteful to me.
It's not. It's an electrodialysis desalinator. I have no idea what in the article gave you the idea it was thermal.
Do they? There's no lack of Electron UIs on Mac and Windows. What's even a native widget library on Mac and Windows today? Do Swift-UI and WinUI (v3 nowadays) count? It's not as clear cut as it was in 2000s.
Specific to GM, those low cost barebones cars were a regulatory hack for CAFE. Selling 3 Metros made up for high dollar, low efficiency Camaros or Cadillacs.

With the move to trucks and ethanol credits, those hacks are no longer cost-effective.
Which one is NK? It's hereditary rule on the third generation, and as such I guess it fits what you mean by "ruler chosen at random".
I don't understand where this thinking comes from. It's not based in fact. These Tesla batteries degrade very slowly. And so if in 5 years you've lost 15% of the range, it still gets you anywhere you need to go including road trips with all of the Superchargers!? "totals the vehicle" is just nonsense and I wish more people understood the reality.
It’s the trolley problem https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
I connect an iPhone 12 to my vehicle's CarPlay all the time. Recently I often found the start unreliable, which defeats all the purpose.
Still the human.

How about one million humans or one kitten?

Where is the cut-off point for you>?
They do. PHEVs and even HEVs are very easy on their brake pads. Usually to a lesser degree than BEVs, but it is not uncommon for even traditional hybrid owners to never need brake pad replacement for their entire ownership of a vehicle.
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I've been actively researching in this field for close to a decade now, so let me tell you: Today is nothing like when I started. Back then everyone rightly assumed this kind of AI was decades if not centuries away. Nowadays there are still some open questions regarding the path to general intelligence, but even they are more akin to technicalities that will probably be solved on a time frame of years or perhaps even months. And expert systems are basically at the point where they can start taking over.
The military model is that they are organized into units with training, and obey a central authority. On the whole, it's been an improvement over forming ad hoc posses of farmers and shopkeepers and arming them, or the medieval hue and cry model where someone screams and then everybody in town comes over and beats a stranger to death for having a different accent after dark. I'd love to see some statistics about how much worse it is now that we have professional police, though, if you've got any to share.
Star Trek had Starfleet.
Whether they can be trusted. And how they compare to other nations.
Or, getting at what is actually desired, a car that can be a wall-charged EV for in-town trips and daily commuting but can use the existing gasoline distribution network for long trips or in emergencies. We’re in a transition state, this isn’t an unreasonable ask.
Closer to $20k than $10k seems insane for a budget-tier car, to me. I guess that's my age showing, but it wasn't that long ago (ten years ago? Twelve?) my in-laws got basically two identical Chevys of their shittiest possible model for under $10,000 combined. Granted I think it was the previous model year, but they weren't used cars or anything.
Advertisement comes in many forms. Seeing the rich nobles and their kids walk around with something you don't have is a form of advertisement. Poor people are not stupid, they notice when the rich have something interesting and they tend to want that too.
> To this day I don't know how much of the object I should be selecting? Also what is a traffic light? Is the pole part of it or not? Motorcycles seem to be hard too.

I have always assumed this was purposefully ambiguous. The right answer is whatever a majority of humans will answer when presented with the same picture.
My wife never changed her phone number when we moved from Seattle, so any number that shows up as a 206 area code she assumes is spam, and blocks it. It's helped to at least avoid answering the phone when a telemarketer calls.
I am looking for a similar service that turns any document (PNG, PDf, DocX) into JSON (preserving the field relationships). I tried with ChatGPT, but hallucinations are common. Does anything exist?
> The cheapest car Tesla currently sells in the U.S. starts at around $43,000—or $35,500 with a federal tax credit of $7,500.

Curious if anyone knows — do people actually drive off the lot with a Tesla for $35,500?
but if there are higher maintenance costs a little later in the vehicle's life, won't that impact the trade-in value?
It's notable that the majority of the people who would be "included" by the change to "more inclusive" language aren't offended in the first place. The sentence "I am watching TV" literally offended no blind person, evah. It is only sighted do-gooders who have the spoons to be offended by nothingburgers on our behalf.
We're too busy dealing with stuff like, ... I dunno, landlords who refuse to rent to us because all they have is second story units and we might fall down the stairs. Yes this actually happened to me in 2000 or so, and I don't have enough faith in human intelligence to believe that it isn't happening today.
We're too busy being oppressed by captchas and websites made by frontend devs who seem to care more about chasing JavaScript framework du jour than they care about accessibility.
We're busy struggling against a built physical environment which has been designed for cars and not people.
The supposedly non-inclusive language of "I watched TV" or "I looked at my browser's JS console" aren't even on our radar.

I coined the term "Sapir-Whorf Stalinists" a few weeks ago to describe the sort of people who think that monkeying with language will magically make things better for marginalized groups.

Here's Lee Atwater talking about the Southern Strategy:

> You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger,
> nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires.
> So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff,
> and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes,
> and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a
> byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut
> this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh,
> and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
How much of this is news and how much of it is normal occurrences due to shipping or fishing?
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you just need to know the SoH (state of health). If that's 90% then you've lost 10% of the range at new. The lower the SoH for the same vehicle make, model, year and driven kms, then the worse the car has been treated. Simple as that.
> See also: “Meow hash”

Meow hash may very well be fast on large data, but it completely fails the "small code" criteria, which is one of the clearly stated design goal of Chibi.

Generally speaking, the "code as small as possible" is IMO a design constraint that is very often under-estimated or even ignored for these type of algorithms, including the crypto hard ones.

I personally find the "code fits on half a page" metric very important: beyond satisfying some very personal sense of aesthetics, it buys you quite a lot of nice properties:

- fits in head
- inlines like a dream
- easy to integrate
- easy to do header only
- easy to security audit
- pretty hard to introduce bugs
- nothing up my sleeve numbers pretty much obvious

For these reasons, I used to love the TEA (tiny encryption algorithm) [1] before cryptanalysis unfortunately showed it to be weak. Its successors (XXTEA, etc...) are already almost too big for my taste.

The speck cipher [2] is quite nice in that regard, in spite of its rather untrustworthy provenance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Encryption_Algorithm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
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I was just thinking that when an animal paints, we sometimes see at least a little something worth seeing in there. They have no scholarly craft but still there is something that came out of them. It seems that the same should also be true for humans.
If you don't get past the headline you might miss the most interesting part of this story. Bhutan is building a special economic-zone city, based on Singapore as a model, and designed by Bjarke Ingels. The renders are really striking, many of the major and most important buildings are designed to double as bridges over the river. Skip to 16:52 in the video to see the renders of the planned development "Gelephu Mindfulness City".
Thank you for your interest and fascination! To answer in brief:

1. We have async support but are still lacking some important parts (mainly interleaved GC) before complex, long-running performance benchmarks can be performed. I expect the performance to initially be relatively bad as we're missing important optimisations like shapes and inline caching.

2. The vector compacting is done so as to ensure that the heap allocated data does not fragment in memory. That being said, it's definitely possible that the heap vectors themselves slowly fragment to span disjoint memory areas instead of being all right next to each other. I don't think this will be a big problem though, as the vectors are still themselves densely packed.

I expect the heap design will definitely suffer some penalties in cases where old data is slowly trickling out from underneath a mass of newer but still live data: During a major GC in these circumstances, the majority of data gets copied to densely pack the vector again. That being said, this isn't too different from a half-space copying garbage collector, and I don't think those are particularly terrible.
It seems weird to genetically engineer, force reproduce and grow other species just for us to eat them but worry about the specific aspect of how they die. Their whole existence is for our exploitation. I know it's still a good thing to not cause extra suffering if we can avoid it for cheap, and I support this kinda thing, but it's always weird.
Deontologically, maybe it's principally better to make an argument you know you can't refute. Maybe even just to try to convince yourself otherwise.

I know the person making this argument isn't necessarily aligned with deontology. Maybe that was your original point.
That's more than enough to cover the average worker's commute, especially as most of the time is spent stuck in traffic.
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They'll have to know your address in order to accurately tell you the OTD price. Are you willing to give that information to every dealer you're querying about price?

There are also choices you can make during the registration process that will change the costs a bit. Quoting a fixed price for that would require yet more small print disclosing that certain choices were made.

I just don't see how it works out. Registration costs money. Not just when you buy the car, but over and over and over throughout the time you own it. You should know this as a driver. Further, the registration cost does not vary by dealer, so you don't need to know it in order to negotiate the best price.
I think the 3/5ths compromise is a good highlight of the poorness of the model of democracy the USA established from its formation. "A democracy of the people but only 3/5 of those people who only have a voice by proxy entrusted to their captives", falls quite short of an ideal model.
> We don’t need any Oct 7th type attacks happening on home soil.

USA has 1-2 mass shootings everyday on average. This is far worse than a singular big attack. And how long would the reaction of police to any big attack even take? Is it actually realistic that they will have a useful impact with big guns?
> they don’t allow creating new executable code. Ie no JIT or compilers

The Metal compiler is embedded in the Metal runtime and runtime compilation of GPU kernels is part of the official API. So I'm not sure if Apple would actually prohibit JIT-ing GPU code.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if you could create a Metal IDE using nothing more than the Swift Treesitter module and a Metal definition for it. As of today, you can use the Swift Playgrounds app if you don't mind not having any compiler errors or warnings provided to you.
> The system's not been regarded as especially good, as systems of democracy go, since not later than the early 20th century

what are some of the problems in your view?
The Swedish part of AMPRNet [0] has some ambitions to be a fallback in case of a crisis[1]. It seems cheaper and easier (a bit of an understatement) to deploy and repair, in case it gets attacked.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet

1: https://amprnet.se/images/Kriskommunikation-2014-01-27.pdf
If you think you're failing the captchas because you're doing them wrong, think again. Google captcha intentionally fails you a couple times if they don't have enough tracking info to determine that you're legit. So you solve the captcha correctly but are still lied to that "you've failed to solve the captcha, try again".

That and the "fading images slowly to pretend like you have bad internet" thing. Disgusting behaviour
The rise of generative AI will usher in a golden age of bad art.
The main insight is "we've spent the last years tuning a dialysis controller to work well on variable input power".

I imagine the paper has the actual parameters, so you can build upon their work.
This doesn’t feel so much like the end of the “open web” as it does a rehash of USENET and email spam issues. Social media killed USENET, and email managed its spam issues thanks to filtering.
From what I've read most PHEVs tend to have really bad batteries that are unreliable, complicated and expensive to replace. It makes sense that they cut corners when there's a whole other powertrain to mask it.
A Monarch is a dictator who managed to stay in power long enough to pass the position on to more generations. This comes with culture changes such that they can act like a monarch instead of a dictator.
Perhaps we could consider making it less burdensome?

It's bizarre that these discussions seem to start from the assumption that we got here intentionally by only making good decisions.
Equipped like an army, unfortunately not trained like one.
but a used Model 3 doesn't! and that's the fake news here. These batteries last ages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAcNVuTnXU
>>> That concept is from the mid 1800s. They evolved out of warehouse guards and slave patrols.

>> This is not accurate.

> I do not claim that's in the history of all depts, but across the south there are many cases of patrols becoming formalized into police departments.

What percentage of current police departments were conversions from slave patrols? What is the source of this data?
I am also blind. hCaptcha is the worst. Their stupid cookie expires so I have to go through their getting an email to set the cookie almost every time I encounter one. It's a horrendous UX, especially when using different devices and browsers. I imagine others just give up instead of dealing with the crap. They shouldn't use the word accessibility when their whole service is the exact opposite.

The bots can probably solve them easier than blind people anyway, or they can outsource them to third world workers for next to nothing. E.G. Anticaptcha [0]:

> Starting from 0.5USD per 1000 images, depending on your daily spending volume

[0] https://anti-captcha.com/
Hillary was for single payer. Trump ran on repealing even the ACA. I don't think it's as simple as literally anyone.
I didn't know this piece or the artist. Went through the few examples in Wikipedia of his art and it's almost all like this, minimalist blocks or stripes of color. Definitely not my thing.

Why does it matter? To me, because it's different for a masterful artist to purposefully create something minimalist (e.g. Picasso) when you know they could make something technically complex if they wished so, vs an artist for which there's no evidence they could create anything else but a few blobs of color.

In the second case, why are they not in the Bad Art Museum? Is it because of financial success of the art piece? Seems odd.

(I'm not trying to dictate anything universal or what others should think, it's just my own preferences and musings about art and artists).
Such regulations are pro-market, too (not pro-business, in the sense of being something business owners will be thrilled about—confusing the two is a common error). Increasing price transparency is supposed to be a way to improve market efficiency.
Thanks Ryan. Great question. It's more of "build a full site via small Tailwind playgrounds". I chose that language to best describe quickly the idea. Hope that helps clarify
The way I think about it is that we're already making decisions like this in our own lives. Imagine a teenager who gets a summer job so they can save for a PS5. The teenager is making an implicit moral judgement, with themselves as the only moral patient. They're judging that the negative utility from working the job is lower in magnitude than the positive utility that the PS5 would generate.

If the teenager gets a job offer, but the job only pays minimum wage, they may judge that the disutility for so many hours of work actually exceeds the positive utility from the PS5. There seems to be a capability to estimate the disutility from a single hour of work, and multiply it across all the hours which will be required to save enough.

It would be plausible for the teenager to argue that the disutility from the job exceeds the utility from the PS5, or vice versa. But I doubt many teenagers would tell you "I can't figure out if I want to get a job, because the utilities simply aren't comparable!" Incomparability just doesn't seem to be an issue in practice for people making decisions about their own lives.

Here's another thought experiment. Imagine you get laid off from your job. Times are tough, and your budget is tight. Christmas is coming up. You have two children and a pet. You could get a fancy present for Child A, or a fancy present for Child B, but not both. If you do buy a fancy present, the only way to make room in the budget is to switch to a less tasty food brand for your pet.

This might be a tough decision if the utilities are really close. But if you think your children will mostly ignore their presents in order to play on their phones, and your pet gets incredibly excited every time you feed them the more expensive food brand, I doubt you'll hesitate on the basis of cross-species incomparability.

I would argue that the shrimp situation sits closer to these sort of every-day "common sense" utility judgments than an exotic limiting case such as torture vs dust specks. I'm not sure dust specks have any negative utility at all, actually. Maybe they're even positive utility, if they trigger a blink which is infinitesimally pleasant. If I change it from specks to bee stings, it seems more intuitive that there's some astronomically large number of bee stings such that torture would be preferable.

It's also not clear to me what I should do when my intuitions and mathematical common sense come into conflict. As you suggest, maybe if I spent more time really trying to wrap my head around how astronomically large a number can get, my intuition would line up better with math.

Here's a question on the incomparability of excruciating pain. Back to the "moral judgements for oneself" theme... How many people would agree to get branded with a hot branding iron in exchange for a billion dollars? I'll bet at least a few would agree.
we don't have to give undue value to 'best practices', nor do we need to judge an idea based on its presenter. we just need to have a reasonable discussion about the idea in the context in which its being applied. this simple approach has been largely eclipsed in the industry by the fetishization tools, and the absurd notion that whole classes of approaches can be dismissed as being 'antipattern'.

It's not very hard to weigh a suggestion. speculate about its costs, benefits and risks.
It is not an opinion: you do not choose it among alternatives. You have to look at it and see. "Giving the ignorant power over the rest is dangerous". Try to argue the opposite, you'll probably have to go into quite some effort to produce some good arguments.

> Are you not worried in any way about needing to answer everything with "no"?

No, I trust you with understanding the sense. (It's not a need, it just works in formulation.)
> Go is the main language for the CNCF project landscape ecosystem and that is about it. And even then, newer projects are more likely to pick Rust.

This part of your comment lost me. It seems to me that the overlap of projects where it would make sense to either use Rust or Go is pretty much empty.

Why would you use ever choose Rust and all the complexity it adds if Go is a sensible option?
How do you authenticate a verify email button?
There is no lot. You click order online and it shows up. Honestly one of the best things Tesla has done for the car industry.

I see a Model 3 Long Range rear wheel drive listed for $42,490 in their new vehicle configurator: https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview
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> Do you really want a plugin car that loses its charge in 30 minutes?

30' are enough to go to work, where I can recharge during the day for the return leg. 30' are enough for any daily errand, too, so that would not be a problem.

Finally, for long trips, I'd use it as a "real" car with its internal combustion engine.