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Very cool, great job! Would love to know the stack and how the building data was processed to create these models.

It seems buffet has taken “the giving pledge” along with Bill Gates and others. “More than 99% of my wealth will go to philanthropy during my lifetime or at death.” - https://www.givingpledge.org/pledger/warren-buffett/

Sounds like an amazing guy. Bell labs had such engineering talent. I’m somewhat against breaking up Google (Alphabet) because it might be the the only company left with vaguely similar culture, capability and capital.

I don’t think this is a science or safety issue, it’s an issue with bad ingredient labeling. They should name these numbered dyes something more understandable. “Red dye 4” sounds pretty sketchy when they could say “Cochineal extract for coloring”. People can reject the product because the ingredients include a bug derived coloring rather than fear of the unknown “red dye” invented by their imagined evil food scientists.

New Design with Liquid Glass Yes, bringing back aqua! I even see blue in their examples.

Ruby keeps on getting better. I wouldn't hesitate to start new projects in ruby.

My off the cuff opinion, find a way to verify the people on the site are not bots and actually real. This is a hard problem with some expensive solutions, privacy implications, significant trade offs and real cost, however it may be worth trying to address. Imagine twitter (X) or facebook without the noise.

Is there any path forward to fixing the current reproducibility crisis in science? Individuals can do better, but that won't solve a problem at this scale. Could we make systemic changes to how papers are validated and approved for publication in major journals?

Pretty sure this was a major plot point of the latest resident evil game.

I’ve had trouble verifying that these chips still have reliability problems after the microcode updates. There seem to be a lot of anecdotes, but pc manufacturers are reporting normal rates of warranty return. It’s possible long term reliability is worse but it’s pretty easy to stress test a CPU.

Anyway, would love to hear if anyone has some decent quality data about these chips reliability.

Is the US health system free market? The government provides healthcare via Medicare and Medicaid for seniors, the people for whom life expectancy and healthcare quality have the highest correlation.

I just need their API to be faster. 15-30 seconds per request using 4o-mini isn't good enough for responsive applications.

I recall the mandatory pairing as quite popular among some devs during that era. I wonder if anyone is actually still working in that manner.

It's terrorism if non-combatants are the target. These attacks targeted combatants who were being sent information to conduct combat through the very same devices that exploded.

I read it as supporting the iphone X with the A11 chip, just not the gpio buttons.

"This series adds device trees for all A7-A11 SoC based iPhones, iPads, iPod touches and Apple TVs."

"The following is supported on A7-A10: - gpio-keys The buttons on A11 based devices like the iPhone X is a SMC subdevice, and cannot be supported in this way."

Using my old iPhones as extra computers would be amazing. Imagine running plex off your iPhone X plugged in a closet somewhere.

Codebases tend to grow over time. I am not a fan of python for more complex projects. Some of the patterns I have seen lend to codebases that are hard to follow.

Aside from the data collection aspect, they seem to like adding features to their phone offerings so customers stay engaged and in Apple's case buy more products. In Google's case, it's all a big funnel to search.

Wow, so this thing needs to be pointed directly at the target 8,000 miles away and will miss the target by the amount of error in aim.

"To target a Minuteman I missile, the missile had to be physically rotated in the silo to be aligned with the target, an angle called the launch azimuth. This angle had to be extremely precise, since even a tiny angle error will be greatly magnified over the missile's journey. " ... "The guidance platform was completely redesigned for Minuteman II and III, eliminating the time-consuming alignment that Minuteman I required. The new platform had an alignment block with rotating mirrors. Instead of rotating the missile, the autocollimator remained fixed in the East position and the mirror (and thus the stable platform) was rotated to the desired launch azimuth. "

I worked in a laser lab for a few months early in my career. After the safety training I fear lasers getting near my eyes in situations most people don't care about. I even look away from barcode scanners at grocery stores. Sometimes I wonder about lidar being shot in all directions from those self-driving cars around SF.

[first paragraph]

It’s getting harder to outsmart the digital minders at work.

The rise of remote work and, in turn, employee-monitoring software sparked a boom in mouse and keyboard jigglers and other hacks to help staffers fake computer activity—often so they can step away to do laundry or a school pickup.

Now some companies are cracking down on the subterfuge, deploying tools that can better spot the phony busywork.

The latest salvo in this productivity-tracking arms race came in a recent regulatory filing from Wells Fargo. In the disclosure, first reported on by Bloomberg News, the bank said it had fired more than a dozen employees in its wealth and investment management unit for allegedly simulating keyboard activity to create the “impression of active work.” ...

Anybody else a bit scared for how this tech will impact people? It seems quite far reaching. Job loss from video production and film. Ease of spreading misinformation, lies and propaganda. I could even see less investment in physical infrastructure as real world experiences get replaced by generated video. Scary stuff.

Institutional UI/UX departments always seem to overthink this stuff and get it wrong. I would love it if there was a rulebook we could reference so this sort of thing isn't always a battle.

I assume the tech is better in the tesla. Despite its issues, isn't autopilot better than the adas systems of similarly priced used/new cars?

It sounds like they actually did something like this. Their shard key selection could be customer, project, folder or something in their data model at a reasonably high logical level in their hierarchy.

"Roughly 1,900 employees will be affected, said Phil Spencer, chief executive of Microsoft Gaming, in a company email Thursday reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The layoffs mostly represent Activision employees and constitute less than 1% of Microsoft’s total workforce, a spokesman said."

Do we really still need such a giant TSA? What would it take to reduce the scanning burden per passenger? The existing process is basically "security theater" anyway.

Sure, but isn't that mostly a theoretical issue or only problematic if the device is used at the limit of it's specification? I haven't heard any stories of water damaged iPhones recently. I've had my iPhone XS and 12 underwater without any problems. My apple watch has been in the shower hundreds of times.

Anybody in NYC notice the large amount of people not paying for the bus or subway? It seems optional for a great number of people. I wonder how many people in the average MTA bus have actually paid.

I’m still shocked they renamed HBO max. HBO has to be one of the strongest premium brand names around. There’s clearly something wrong going on in the organization. Perhaps it’s a debt issue after the merger with discovery.