aeternum

There were plenty of digital circuit engineers back in the 90s that said microprocessors were general and inefficient solutions to problems.

And if you needed it programmable, well an FPGA was still almost as general and far more efficient than a microprocessor.

Guess what won.

Yes, the Fed can always buy the debt so the end point is ultimately runaway inflation. A tale almost as old as money itself.

Spending someone else's money is pretty fun, especially once you find a way to justify it as a moral good.

I am someone and I believe it's an end-to-end neural net.

You can increase the penalty for running a red or increasing the relative sample of red light stops present in the real and synthetic training data. You can use neural net analysis techniques to confirm that features like color and stoplights are being recognized.

You confirm it is fixed by ensuring your validation set also has sufficient data representing the failures (and that they now succeed).

No, the owner of the site has beef with elon and makes it a point to bias Tesla negatively.

I guess that's more the standard for news now but I always considered heavy bias to be a tabloid thing.

I agree the attacks were successful, I just don't agree they were successful because of lack of detection.

You generally can't continually launch a even $1mil missiles at $100-$10k drones and expect to win. The problem is that most air defenses were designed in an age where the enemy aircraft were quite expensive so it wasn't so critical to optimize ordinance cost. That IMO is the primary challenge for all militaries now.

Electrek is basically now an anti-tesla tabloid

How many of those attacks were successful? Russia has fairly advanced radar that is quite capable of picking up a plane like that. I think the more likely explanation is that it was incorrectly deemed not a threat or a minor threat.

700 miles is far more than the standard range of the A-20 (210nm). Is it possible they launched it from well within Russia thereby making it much less likely to be considered a threat?

Most camera sensors already detect in the IR range, you just need to remove the filter. I've done it, works great and pretty fun to convert some old webcams, robot vacuums lidar scanners look especially cool.

Blurry video is fine when using techniques like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE

Clouds also don't save you (unless you have two thick layers to fly through) because this technique is even easier with satellites. Stealth effectively no longer exists for most nation-state level tech. The B-2 is a very cool plane but is unfortunately obsolete. Still great for when you want to put on more of a show than an attack.

This seems pretty useless in an age with super cheap 8k cameras and novice ability to do a delta-recorded image.

Many junior devs can often leetcode crazy algos but don't know what 'ls' or 'df' does.

If the land around you is developed, land value generally goes up.

How are you proposing to calculate land value?

You can always leave or ask the airsoft organizers to make new rules. The more interesting question is whether there's some legal avenue to avoid being someone's "content".

Reality TV has to get consent + releases so where is the line?

Both administrations (Trump 2016 + Biden) adopted the guidance of Fauci and others at the NIH/NIAID more or less directly. So the guidance came through the administrations but originated with the NIH/NIAID.

You had direct statements like this from scientific experts, those experts turned out to be the middleman group that was funding Wuhan via NIH grants.

Peter Daszak, a zoologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance, who has been among the most vocal critics of the idea of a lab leak, wrote, “I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Given an expert statement like that, youtube can and did take down lableak videos because they were misinformation (contrary to the information provided by the experts).

I think it was even slightly worse. The White House was effectively delegating the decision of who to ban/police to the NIH/NIAID, an organization that was funding novel coronavirus research in Wuhan.

It's easy to see how at minimum there could be a conflict of interest.

Yes, Jon Stewart really nailed this point, it's a great clip and worth the re-watch.

It's good RFK is more willing to question things but he seems just as guilty when it comes to spinning webs of lies.

If we think tylenol might cause autism why doesn't he run/fund a nice clean and large randomized controlled trial? Instead he spreads conjecture based on papers with extremely weak evidence.

Sure but when neighbors improving the land next to you results in your tax rate increasing significantly people obviously tend to be against that.

You're gonna fight hard against your neighbor adding a Duplex, triplex, fourplex, etc. because with an LVT your taxes very likely go up as a result.

Imagine the uproar when a developer comes in and converts some of the SFHs next to granny's house into a 4-plex and now granny's social security doesn't cover her taxes and she has to move to the old folks home. Sure she can theoretically take out a mortgage or second mortgage against the theoretical increased land value but now you're forcing granny into debt.

Yes, sell the spectrum and get rid of the fairness doctrine. Few understand it.

Problem is land value tax makes gentrification issues even worse, it's the exact opposite of prop13. Rich people move in around you or a highrise gets built and your tax rate increases extremely quickly.

Nimbyism would become even more extreme.

Another way to look at it is taxes aren't quite high enough yet to justify it. Many that are wealthy see the california tax as just another expense in return for good weather.

The moving will absolutely happen, and it isn't all or nothing. If you're very wealthy the CA tax board already tracks the number of days you spend in CA so the choice will be to spend fewer.

Your freedom to not have a flying car above you requires removing someone else's freedom to travel in a flying car above you.

Problem is 'freedom motivates me' often works for both sides of the argument.

Mentorship is unfortunately broken because gone are the days of apprenticeships.

If you find a great mentor, do everything you can to learn quickly then jump ship to big tech and cash in.

Human driving is the thing that is dangerous and will soon be banned. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Exactly right. Each of these is just obviously wrong.

Leaders Overshare? Simon shares material non-public information on linkedin. Now he and the company are in trouble.

Leaders bend the rules? Simon bent the rules for some of his team but not others, now multiple past employees are bringing discrimination lawsuits.

Leaders coach and help people land softly? Simon kept too many low performers on his team and now the company's product is buggy, behind competitors and forced to downsize so his entire team is being cut.

Consider that they could have changed their mind given the increased rhetoric against billionaires and ceos, blocked m&a, and attempted use of the judicial rather than legislature to make rules for companies. (I did)

You: Oh I know, I can use a constraint solver for this problem!

Interviewer: You can't use a constraint solver

Pretty much every big tech company was still providing severance for those who decline RTO.

Maybe they don't have to but there's sufficient murkiness that it's probably cheaper to just give the severance than go to court.

I'm not convinced, is AI really sufficient to develop into a lifeform or specifically, to develop a separate will?

It's quite possible it's more like the computer in Star Trek. Highly capable and able to perform complex agentic tasks but lacks a will to act on its own.

> systematic disassembling of our education system by the federal government

So you support shutting down the federal Dept. of Education? Or is the answer more centralized control of education?