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> It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things. They have to enforce unjust laws and unjust outcomes

The problems with American policing aren't merely that the cops have to enforce the law.

It's the qualified immunity, the get-out-of-jail-free cards for their buddies, and the dog shootings.

If the police never shot the wrong guy, always replaced your door after breaking it down, and were polite and apologetic when a mistake was made - people in this thread wouldn't be equating swatting with attempted murder.
He wants the tax credit snuffed out to eliminate US competition and tarrifs against imports to eliminate foreign competition.

No tax credit, no Rivian. I can see why he wants that. Their build quality and manufacturing ability trounce the Tesla when they were at that stage. Rivian has full EV vans in production and on the road daily. Impressive as hell.
Refining the Basic Mathematics of Economics and Accounting
I like what I wrote about the two other topics at the end, Elasticity and "multiplicative infinitesimals", the best. Skip to that if you are in a rush.
Generally, 10-20 years and 100K-200K miles. The US requires a warranty of 8 years and 100K miles.

For newer cars it's hard to tell for sure since the tech has improved significantly in recent years. But even the earlier cars have done better than people expected.

A quick google turns up lots of sources you can read. Here are a few:

https://unitil.com/blog/electric-car-battery-life-fact-vs-fi...

https://blog.evbox.com/ev-battery-longevity

https://unitil.com/blog/electric-car-battery-life-fact-vs-fi...
Just because it is not publicized does not mean it is not happening. Most military operations do not take along journalists, and are not reported to the press. Some are even secret.

That said, there is a limited amount that can be done in international waters without creating an international incident. Law Of The Seas, Freedom Of Navigation, etc.. It is to our advantage for example, when we want to prevent CCP's from denying access to international waters around Taiwan or Phillipines, but to Russia's advantage when scouting undersea cables in international waters.

They can field more "research" vessels than we'd typically field mil vessels, but I'd bet real money that that ratio just changed a lot in the past few weeks, as it hits the press.
Because this was easy to do during the 10 days allocated to develop JavaScript in 1995, and then backwards compatibility kicked in :(
This.

You never count on the successor of a strongman to be rational. S/he is the successor of a strongman for a reason. And that reason is probably not rationality.
They have another article about a more conventional tunnel idea that addresses that issue. They were well aware of the issue. The only way to make this work at that time would have been something like Brunel's atmospheric railway. That was plagued by issues when in the open, goodness knows what it would have been like to run underground for such a long distance.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/this-week-in-...
Everyone wants it to be bigger, but we just have to work with what's there.
I don't know how long that failure mode has been in place or if this is relevant, but it makes me think of analogous times I've encountered similar:

When automated systems are first put in place, for something high risk, "just shut down if you see something that may be an error" is a totally reasonable plan. After all, literally yesterday they were all functioning without the automated system, if it doesn't seem to be working right better switch back to the manual process we were all using yesterday, instead of risk a catastrophe.

In that situation, switching back to yesterday's workflow is something that won't interrupt much.

A couple decades -- or honestly even just a couple years -- later, that same fault system, left in place without much consideration because it rarely is triggered -- is itself catastrophic, switching back to a rarely used and much more inefficient manual process is extremely disruptive, and even itself raises the risk of catastrophic mistakes.

The general engineering challenge, is how we deal with little-used little-seen functionality (definitely thinking of fault-handling, but there may be other cases) that is totally reasonable when put in place, but has not aged well, and nobody has noticed or realized it, and even if they did it might be hard to convince anyone it's a priority to improve, and the longer you wait the more expensive.
How is this even related to militarization? The perp is abusing emergency response systems with a total lack of empathy for the damage it did to the victim and the department.

The separation of empathy from an 18 year old online kid from his peers is the true tragedy here.
Even in particle/astrophysics we rely on proprietary FPGA Vendor tools, in proprietary electronics design tools (ok, kicad is seeing increasing adoption), and often proprietary embedded tools (depending on the microcontroller vendor). Not to mention proprietary graphics drivers (CUDA), CAD tools (Solidworks, Solidedge), mechanical or e&m simulation (comsol, Ansys, xfdtd, wipl-d, etc). A fair number of people use IDL or Matlab too and mathematica is pervasive among theorists. Probably nobody uses Origin
anymore. We've gone backwards on documents since everybody is using overleaf now. It's true most of the software we develop, if made public, is open source.
>That concept is from the mid 1800s. They evolved out of warehouse guards and slave patrols.

Isn't this just guilt by association? Whether police are bad or not should be judged on its merits, not what its history is. The Autobahn and VW was built by Nazi Germany, but it'd be absurd to bring that factoid up when discussing road transport or the German car industry.
Yep, chose not to reply.
> conventional artillery to turn St Petersburg to rubble

Well, let's really hope not. (Let us hope that nothing of worth is ever destroyed, and let us not speak about destruction of universal goods lightly.)

Edit: let us be even more clear (possibly in light of the dismissing feelers who just passed by). If you are into destruction of the cultural heritage, you are the enemy. Complexities just come later.
IMO current US leadership isn't too far from a 'centrally commanded dictatorship'.

Yes, China has many problems by their rise is exemplary. Especially in being the world's factory and having such a large export surplus. Their foray into dominating steel, high speed rail, solar panels, batteries, electronics e.t.c

They seem to be making good bets on the future, while US is holding on their bets from the last century.
The tl;dr of this is -- yes. We have a durable caching layer that we use to stage writes before we asynchronously replicate them to S3. This means that we are able to quickly (<1ms) perform operations like single-byte updates and renames and provide strong read-after-write consistency to other file system clients.

Once the operation is stored in our durable cache, then we update your S3 bucket to match what the file system expects. This generally takes around a minute, but could take longer depending on the number of S3 operations a file operation translates to (for example, a directory rename requires that CopyObject each object in the directory in S3).

I think that the POSIX API is to here to stay (like the S3 API). I agree that it would be better to have timeouts and deadlines, but I don't think that those make it impossible to provide a good distributed file system experience on POSIX (look at Amazon's EFS, Oracle's FSS, Google's FileStore, etc). It just makes the bar for availability higher.
Or some sort of trial-by-ordeal, where winning the tournament is supposed to correlate with the characteristics that would make for a good monarch.
Putin is a product of the KGB and USSR, and is a uniquely slick, effective global leader.

a real life James Bond villain -- who won the game, and took over a country.
Multimodal LLM are not the way to do this for a business workflow yet.

In my experience your much better of starting with a Azure Doc Intelligence or AWS Textract to first get the structure of the document (PDF). These tools are incredibly robust and do a great job with most of the common cases you can throw at it. From there you can use an LLM to interrogate and structure the data to your hearts delight.
Or even more straightforward, just don’t believe anyone 100% knows what they are doing until they exhaustively list every assumption they are making.
What if Kubernetes was a Compiler Target? [video]
I think inexperienced developers write complex code because it's difficult to write simple code and they don't know how yet, not because they're trying to make it complex.
Most of the IRA has actually been spent in red states and rural areas
I know at one point Microsoft and IBM both invested significantly in studying UX research. It doesn't feel like that's happening or if it is, I guess I must be drifting out of touch with what's considered intuitive in user interfaces. It's not just MS either, I feel like the ability to discover what you can do in an app/site any more is hidden by aesthetic choices over functional ones.

I remember being pulled into user surveys and usability studies while wandering the mall back in the day and being given series of tasks to accomplish on various iterations of a windows GUI (in the Windows 9x era) while they observed, and then paid $100 for my time for each one I participated in.
Heckendorn and Soule were the key profs in the research in the area. One other maybe?. Soule in particular. In 04 I was doing some undergrad research around training neural networks with particle swarms.

I wandered off to do this Lisp on my own, inspired by the code-is-data concept of Lisp. This work is strictly toy, to self demonstrate the possibility. Wouldn't mind revisiting it sometime to bring in the top of the academic art. But I am not affiliated with a U, so publishing would be a challenge.
At Starlink altitude there is still operationally significant volumes of air. So much so that Starlinks need to altitude raise regularly. Starlink shrapnel would drop below Starlink orbit almost immediately, and completely deorbit in a month or so.
What do you use for energy storage and how much can you store?
When we were considering solar panel solution for our small apartment complex that was the major cost and the reason we decided against a few years ago.
This is exactly the problem that we solve! You don't need any local disk on your EC2 instance in order to use Regatta or work with data in S3. Our high-speed caching layer plays the role as this local disk for you, so that you can work with data sets that are hundreds of TiBs, even if you only have a 20 GiB EBS volume on your instance.
Marxist references are valid?
I strongly agree with the premise of the article - HTML could be a fabulous substrate for computational notebooks!

But I didn't love the choices for how to implement it here. Dynamic, reactive HTML can be a lot more declarative than this, and Observable is cool, but strays from standard JS.

I started to build a reactive HTML system called Heximal that eventually will have notebook support, but it's declarative, based on HTML templates and custom elements with a expression / reactivity system (based on the TC39 Signals proposal) on top.

https://github.com/elematic/heximal

It's a bit like a mashup of HTMX, Tangle, Curvenote, and Polymer. Or like HTML if were natively reactive.

I think it will lend it self to graphical editing and notebook user cases quite well.
I’m a bit confused with the analogy here. Would the non NEMA outlets work with my existing things or is the implication that they wouldn’t?
Infiniband is still widely used in data centers, RDMA and IPoIB. Intel tried Omnipath but that died quickly (I don't know specifically why).
Even if you went there to ask, we would have to inquire about how much you assessed credibility.
I think it’s more analogous to Minio’s discontinued proxy mode. This is where you’d talk to minio locally (using whatever interface/protocol) and it would act as a local cage for S3 objects. If you wrote to it, it would propagate the changes up to S3 proper (or whomever using the S3 protocol).

I believe they stopped supporting that mode because they didn’t want to keep chasing every S3 protocol change. However, if you’re just using S3, and not trying to masquerade as S3, this problem becomes easier.
You should be downvoted for your last comment too! Or at least someone could explain the world we live in. Is it confiscatory to have public schools, funded by your taxes, fsck guy (you do have a great handle...)? How about publicly funded (by our taxes too) police and fire protection? Uh, govt funding to help pay for hospitals? Food inspection, are you crazy you might say, the perfectly working markets of our paradise make this not a necessity. People will self report when the water has contaminants - maybe?

Now let's add significantly reducing your own greenhouse gas impact for 20 or 30 years after you buy the demon solar panels (made from dead babies, some right thinking american might say), then putting your own excess electricity on the grid, further reducing fossil fuel generation. So in all thoses cases, that dastardly helpful socialism is for the public good.
What's the alternative? Waiting for New York Times to verify a home invasion has indeed taken place before sending over cops?
I don't want them simply because I don't see what value they bring to me.
What exactly does defeat mean in that context?
Putin is hoping and taking action to ensure otherwise.
> Perplexity gives you comparisons...

Where does the comparison come from? When it comes to consumer products, my main problem is that datasheets are meaningless, journo-reviews are always paid ads, user reviews are always posted immediately after receiving the item, before it would be used, and nothing else remains. It is impossible to actually get objective comparisons and reviews on the internet.

Can this somehow mirror the actual user experience, usability, maybe even list the UX-demolishing bugs mined from the depths of Vietnamese basket weaving forums?
:sunglasses: We think it's important to be where our customers are, and we're looking to prioritize the next regions that we launch in based on customer demand. We expect to be in more regions by the end of the year.
looks pretty sick, if you don't mind me asking. How long did it take you to build this and how are you marketing this? how many paying customers do you have so far may I ask
By regulations I assume you mean lowering the minimum wage or removing environmental and OSHA protections, correct? Just want to be clear.
> However, is never a _single_ instance of a Native American running away from their tribe to join the colonists, but colonist defections to the tribes were a common occurrence, more among women than men.

There are many such instances, most famously Pocahontas. As far back as the 1600s there are records of Native Americans studying at Harvard. We just don't typically frame integration into the culture and institutions of a colonial power as "running away".
Have you ever gotten behind a diesel truck with emissions deleted? I have...a lot. The roll coal crowd doesn't have EV on their radar whatsoever.
There are two main differences.

First, libobscura doesn't yet fully support even UVC webcams,

and second, related to the quote, is that you will not run into segfault with libobscura no matter how hard you try.

When using libcamera, the task of memory management is on you, with the usual consequences.

There are more smaller differences. Image processing in libobscura is on the GPU from day 1. Contributing to the project is through codeberg, not a mailing list. The internal architecture differs, although that's not too visible.

Future goals may end up diverging, too. I'm thinking of a completely different approach to configuring devices and a different governance structure.
Your comment is a bit off topic IMO. Swatting can occur regardless of how "militarized" a police force actually is.
This color is beautiful, the deleted comment was likely nasty, and Stallman was right.

Nuance;
Inflation is a shit metric because it's easily manipulated.

The cost of a GB of hard drive is failing spectacularly. The price of health care went up much more than the price of eggs. So what is the "real" inflation?

Government gets to pick what they use to define inflation so they can manipulate "inflation" numbers. And manipulate they do.

What you should look at is money printing: how much money did the government print. This is about 8% yearly for US.

This money debasement is eventually reflected in prices.

Some things get cheaper, because we can produce them more efficiently (like hard drives). Some things get even more expensive than 8% because we produce them less efficiently (health care insurance or college diplomas).

So to answer your question: cars costs more mostly because the government prints money, which devalues your dollars and car makers are not getting more efficient at making cars to counter currency debasement.
That's what a functional government looks like. High-information, low-controversy, consolidating citizens around a shared truth.
Yep. This user needs to have the ban hammer put to them medium style - their entire comment history is just autogenerated LLM claptrap.
That reinforces my point instead of changing it.

Destruction of the Worth = bad.

I.e. it is part of what should be fought.
It is easier to have higher relative economic growth, yes, as seen with China in the last decades but that doesn't translate to better opportunities for the individual.

A working class US American probably has a higher standard of living then an upper-class entrepreneur in Bhutan.
Plenty of countries are benefiting from U.S. mistakes and ‘badness’…
We do. Through community solar programs low/medium income households can get anywhere from 10%-50% off their electricity supply costs.
I sometimes think about power locks. I usually drive alone, and only lock/unlock the driver door. I had no problems flipping the little lock switch, and using the key outside was no problem because it’s right next to the door handle I’m going to use anyway.

Electrifying the locks led to the idea of RF transmitters as a secondary switch. Now there’s hardware for that, and a radio receiver. Gotta make it flash the lights, so that’s another relay and a wiring harness to the lighting system. Gotta beep the horn too, more wires. Maybe make it so you can hold the button to crack the power windows on a hot day; it’s just wire.

Fast forward 30 years, now everything talks to everything and I’d argue they don’t want to have to maintain a bunch of different firmware configurations to support fine-grained dealership options.

That’s my hunch anyway.
Why do you think the goal of modern art should necessarily be to appeal to as many people as possible - or when you say "universally bad" do you mean to say "perceived as bad to people who aren't immersed in art"? Marvel movies and McDonalds will always exist for normal people.
Small world! Congrats on getting up there on Hacker News, too!
Thanks, captain
Community net monitoring isn’t allowed in California.

Instead, PG&E let the grid fall apart, so now they’re charging crippling amounts of money to people that can’t afford solar.

On the one hand, with the help of subsidies, our house is off-grid capable, and our power bill is $0-50.

On the other hand, there’s a red-tagged neighborhood near by (they built homes despite not having power grid access), and they usually end up having a generator fire take out a few houses every couple of years.

Anyway, I really wish California had a second political party (not the GOP).
the callstacks are hard to read and watching variables across context boundaries is difficult. yea you can pause the program with the debugger, but doing so doesn't give much of a picture of how the program is functioning. I've found seeing the prints from all the 'threads' gives a better sense of what's happening
(presenter here, AMA)

Source code is available for the demo: https://github.com/acrlabs/kompile

Slides are available here: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccncna2024/1b/What%20...
this is a good example of how individuals are fine to do things for the public good when they are consequential or at least compatible with the things in their best interest. We're willing to self sacrifice only so (and not very) far, so need to apply that goodwill very strategically. Another example: I commute by bike everyday, not because it's cheaper, healthy good for the environment (even though these are all true), but because I love it and it's so enjoyable - even it winter. Screw with the roads, or traffic patterns, or waste my property taxes, or neglect the bikes paths and snow removal enough and I'll either stop or move.
Generative Agent Simulations of 1k People
The promise of human behavioral simulation--general-purpose computational agents that replicate human behavior across domains--could enable broad applications in policymaking and social science. We present a novel agent architecture that simulates the attitudes and behaviors of 1,052 real individuals--applying large language models to qualitative interviews about their lives, then measuring how well these agents replicate the attitudes and behaviors of the individuals that they represent. The generative agents replicate participants' responses on the General Social Survey 85% as accurately as participants replicate their own answers two weeks later, and perform comparably in predicting personality traits and outcomes in experimental replications. Our architecture reduces accuracy biases across racial and ideological groups compared to agents given demographic descriptions. This work provides a foundation for new tools that can help investigate individual and collective behavior.
Are human lives worthwhile to be destroyed? Are they not universal enough? Because I don't see much respect for those around the world... starting, but not ending there, with the russian soldiers themselves.
>This almost worked, but I found that the first chunk was always failing to transmit through the firewall

Magic numbers/header scanning or, if it was awhile back, BOM (byte order mark) messing stuff up.
Beautiful Focus Outlines
It's great now but when it starts to degrade and needs maintenance and replacement that's now entirely your problem, there is no utility with a huge staff of electricians and linesmen ready to deal with that on a sub-zero winter day or in the middle of a rainy night.
The us of course subsidizes our manufacturing (whatever is left of it), just like many other countries. I don't know if our $7500 tax rebates on locally made EVs with non-chinese batteries compare to Chinese govt subsidies. But it's clear that EVs are going to be much much cheaper to make, maintain, and recycle over time. This is a threat to all kinds of incumbents. We face the destruction of a lot of our manufacturing industrial base if we don't convert some more of it to EVs, and this will also be destabilizing to our politics. Add on the enmity of the gas and oil industry (helped a tiiiny bit by Trump's victory).
This is the older article. Have this one?
'Tender' and Its Not-So-Delicate History
I suppose if you dismiss an article out of hand due to the ideology of the author without even seeing what historical facts they claim or their references, they might not be valuable to you.

Should progressive academics declare all CATO papers invalid because they are ideologically misaligned with the institute?