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Don't forget the Diplomatic plates

https://diplomacy.state.gov/items/diplomatic-license-plates/ https://i.etsystatic.com/12654735/r/il/dd7fb3/1754142363/il_...

Or Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana, and the Virgin Islands

Or the Native American Nations

I know the official line is that "media types have proven insufficient as a way of discriminating between devices with different styling needs." But as far as I can tell most people really do just want to know if the visitor is viewing on a monitor or a phone. Trying to back that out through media features like viewport resolution and pointer types has been a big mess. I don't think the plan to replace media types with media features is wrong, but so far we haven't been given the right features to do what we want.

I'm outside of my expertise here, but I think if the model is able to reproduce copyrighted text then distributing the model should be a copyright violation.

I'm surprised the issue seems to be training on copyrighted material, that seems perfectly legal. I'm more interested in the ability of these models to violate copyright by reproducing it. How much of a book is Llama2 allowed to generate before it's an issue?

I really appreciate the people doing this work. It's the only way I've run these models without any headaches. The difference is so stark, even with CUDA and Linux it's bad, with AMD and Windows it's miserable. I'm pretty sure it's not just me..

Ok but if it was 3 m^2 of panels and if the energy needed was 100 Wh per mile then it starts to look possible. That's Aptera's solar vehicle design. I'm not saying this is currently reality, but in this case 1 order of magnitude doesn't feel so insurmountable that we should dismiss the dream. The article is pretty clear EV applications are a longshot example.

I'm still surprised automated enforcement isn't more widespread. Where I live red light cameras are at almost every major intersection, speed cameras are on school roads and construction sites, school busses have ticketing cameras. But on the highway it's cops in cars (and supposedly aircraft) with radar/lidar. Thirty minutes a day on the highway is enough to know there's plenty of people undeterred from driving 40+ mph over the limit (20 mph over is enough to suspend your license after two strikes). I'd guess the 'math' (money, politics, initiative) doesn't work out, or maybe the tech is just rolling out very slowly and hasn't made it here yet.

Wasting time when I should be working.

I was reading through jwz's blog and someone linked to the icon contest winners. I saw Marsh named as the artist who spruced up the animation, so I checked if his company had a website portfolio. The current website wasn't useful, but I checked the archived version and poked around until I saw the Netscape icon page.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/12/the-secret-history-of-about...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080206124223/http://wp.netscape...

http://dataglyph.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20011214155044/http://dataglyph....

An archive of the Dataglyph website (Marsh Chamberlain) has some different versions of the animation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011214155044/http://dataglyph....

An older version of the site that attributes the spinning compass (unused icon) to Dataglyph too:

https://web.archive.org/web/19981206034010/http://www.datagl...

Well now I want to know how many versions of the meteor animation there were.

Here's the animation of just the loop (frame 1 excluded) https://i.ibb.co/DMDBR7L/Netscape-Communicator-Meteor-Loop.g...

I tried it out (american, british, korean, italian, japanese) and couldn't really get any control. Sometimes the american siren would sound different, but asking for a siren of a specific country would just give the american sound. Maybe better prompting would help. I used "isolated american ambulance siren no traffic".

This is great, I've been wanting sound effect generation for years. I spent a lot of time trying to get WaveNet working well, eventually just dropped the project after mediocre results. With AudioGen I'm generating a sample in less than a second.

It's comforting to see all the folders turned upright. Ever since Vista they've been sideways, spilling your documents all over the taskbar (this is why I moved my taskbar to the side).

"I'm experiencing a weird bug where after clicking on a result and going back to the results page the order of the results change."

This drives me crazy.

I grew up with a mature locust tree in the backyard. They are nasty thorns, over a foot long on the trunk (article said as large as a hand, but they can be as long as a forearm), and many inches long on all the branches. They go out in every direction too, like caltrops. I played baseball in the backyard without shoes exactly once.

I never even considered eating the pods.

It would be neat to see a black list of all the things Bing and Google block from search results. I don't know how to get such a list other than brute force trial and error.

There's an EPA website for this.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/browseList.jsp

I have a 10 year old Mazda 3 and the MPG estimate is on target: 32 combined 28 city 39 highway estimate and I get 36 mpg. User average is 35.2.

I got this when I tried to download the weights and it was because instead of the proper files I was downloading an "unauthorized access" html page due to my work blocking the download.

I switched to the huggingface repository to get the files. Of course I'm not out of the weeds yet, but I'll give it another hour before I throw my arms up.

That video is pretty eye opening for me. If it were my car I would have wanted to stop. But I also think most people are going to very quickly hand the wheel to the computer as soon as they have the opportunity. There's not going to be closely supervised self driving where a human would intervene in the 3 seconds it takes to reach the intersection, everyone (with exception of the blog author here) will be nose down staring at a phone. Solutions will have to come from elsewhere: better signaling between pedestrians and vehicles, stricter regulation on how automated driving must behave in situations.

The number of people where the net price =/= sticker price is growing.

"In 2000, 44.4% of all undergraduates received grant aid, whereas in 2016, that number increased to 63.1%."

I don't understand the claim that SUVs are the cause of increased pedestrian deaths.

I understand that SUVs are more damaging to pedestrians when hit, but it doesn't look like SUVs are contributing to pedestrian deaths any more than other vehicles. From 2012 to 2021 the percent of pedestrian deaths caused by SUVs went from 17% to 24%, but the production share of SUVs also jumped from 21% to 45%. The share of SUVs on the road will lag production, so it would be better to compare number of vehicles or miles driven, but it's difficult to find that data. I did a few estimates and I keep getting the surprising result that fewer pedestrians are killed per registered SUV than registered sedan, pickup, van, or truck.

There's a lot of other good data. Deaths are largely increasing in adult populations (20-69 years) while children are safer than ever. (Pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people by age, 1975-2021: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes... ) Deaths are most likely to happen when it's dark (77% from 9 pm to 6 am, more deaths in winter than summer), and from 2010 to 2021 deaths during the day increased 30% but deaths at night increased 86%. Increasingly deaths are occurring in urban areas (84%). And most of those killed are men (75%).

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/explore-automotive-tre...

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

https://www.bts.gov/nts/50th

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2020/m...

The integer examples really threw me off too.

6.20 ≈ 10.00; 1.55 ≈ 1.00; 2.37 ≈ 2.65

I pay my water bill on my phone using cellular data because some part of the sign-in process hits an address that's blocked by the adblock DNS I use.

It's part of the current trend of hyper-moralization. "Moral exactitude is now so important that we examine all art with a fine-toothed comb for any possible transgression." I don't mean that book revisions are unthinkable evils, they happen all the time. Plenty of famous works were revised both by the author and posthumously, often to appeal to a wider audience. After all, authors like money too. And in the digital age I'm not too worried we'll lose access to the Nth edition of anything far reaching (books I mean, I do think other media can disappear).

What's interesting is the trend itself, after decades of liberation why are we on eggshells? Is this emergent or a purposeful effort? What is this doing to current art? How much longer will this persist?

I suspect it's related to the extreme "partyism" we see today. Moral issues are now political issues. And while our personal lives have been liberated, our politics are both judged harshly and used as our identity. I think new art is suffering, that interesting things don't thrive in a partisan environment: this is the popularity-fueled echo chamber you're probably aware of. I don't want to believe this will last long, I want to say that people are losing interest in their dogma and want to hear new music again. But I'm not confident in that at all, I feel the trend has yet to peak.

The quote above ( https://artofericwayne.com/2020/08/01/hyper-moralization-the... ) is talking specifically about people actively removing art, but I see the same hyper-moralization inspiring these book revisions.

I think it's more that Disney noticed they were losing momentum with Star Wars and decided to delay or cut theatrical projects planned for 2020 - 2024. "Too much too fast" was the line from Bob after Solo was released. "We will take a pause, some time, and reset... there will be a bit of a hiatus." Covid probably had a role too, and the success of the Mandalorian. The Boba Fett film became a streaming series, the Kenobi film became a streaming series.

I had a number of volumes of really nice looking books on the shelf growing up. There was the encyclopedia set which was ok, but also collections of stories, museum collections, city reference books. They're great because you can grab anything and usually find interesting well written good quality content. Even the worst of them, and there are bad books, are at least well written.

Anyway, I recently found out the volumes were selected by my architect uncle to coordinate with the built-in bookshelves. They were just intended as a visual prop, but I've taken a few of the classics and museum sets with me and still enjoy flipping through.

I just went ahead and did it, then included fallbacks to supported formats. What I really want is a standard way to let the browser request lossy or lossless images.

That's true, it's the expiration and code that change.

"Meta said that starting June 4th, the Quest 2 will drop its price by $100 to $299.99 for the 128GB version"

Ah, what a deal. The same price it was 1 year ago.

https://twitter.com/metaquestvr/status/1551975828442910720

I just registered a domain for 10 years (the maximum allowed) and was wondering how likely I was to remember to renew. Auto-pay probably wouldn't work with credit card numbers changing. I might still be using the same email or at least have it forwarded. A phone calendar reminder? I did that once long ago and when changing phones the reminders didn't sync correctly. Maybe buy a physical 10 year calendar.

Anyway, I figure that's what happened here from 2012 to 2022.