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Worked with Jonathan a long time back on a smartwatch project and he was developing Loud Bicycle as a side project at that point, happy to see that he's still working on bike safety.

For anyone in SF (since it looks like this doesn't report to SF 311 yet) there's a similar but more generalized app called Solve SF which aims to make submissions quick and simple. Snap a picture, auto-classify, submit with all forms filled out.

For sure.

Not speaking to the wisdom of filing taxes using LLMs, but just FYI (assuming US here) taxes being accepted doesn't mean they were correct. It just means the IRS hasn't found anything major wrong (e.g. SSN used on multiple returns). Even being approved isn't a guarantee, an audit could come later.

There's certainly a bit of dramatization/exaggeration here, but the main point is that it doesn't really fix the stated problem while also being a huge change for everyone to adapt to.

My favorite depiction of your dream world: https://qntm.org/abolish

I mean, kind of. Series hybrids (where the drivetrain is all electric and fed by a generator) yes, but all the parallel hybrids I've driven are still pretty anemic because you have both a tiny ICE engine and a tiny electric motor. They also don't always engage simultaneously in a way that makes it feel like you're getting the torque on demand.

and the third half of the population thinks it's egregious that a repeating fraction has been truncated!

ID is never checked at the gate for domestic flights, only international, at least in the US.

This was the case being referenced: https://abc7.com/post/wicliff-yves-fleurizard-stowaway-secur...

The article actually does mention using this technique, though it doesn't explain it, so thanks for the background from someone who isn't familiar with this space!

Yes, one might argue it's a little misleading, but it comes across as significantly more genuine and less scammy than TurboTax. The federal filing is completely free, no matter which forms you have, and you just pay $15 per state. They also have the standard support upsells, but they don't push them crazy hard (I think it's one prompt between the federal and state sections).

I've used them for the past several years, never had any issues. Paid for audit defense one year when my return was especially complex (luckily haven't needed it yet).

In no way does it set a dangerous precedent. Fortifying flour and iodizing salt (both of which could be termed a "medical treatment") were huge successes, with universally positive results and at virtually no cost. Mandating something like this should be done cautiously (in either direction), but fluoride isn't the first, only, or last example of it.

The only difference is that it's rather harder to avoid fluorinated water than iodized salt if one is so inclined, which raises the bar for proof of efficacy and preponderance evidence that it does not cause harm (which has been provided by others in this thread).

I was under the impression it was more of a distribution problem than a quantity problem? This chart suggests we're building on the order of 1.5 million units of housing per year, which (unless all of those people are occupying a single unit each) should be sufficient in aggregate to keep up with population growth: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ETOTALUSQ176N

But people are moving to the cities, which is exactly where we're not building.

Also a firmware engineer. I see 4 career paths under the advent of AI:

1. If you can't beat em, join em - get a masters in ML or something and work at a higher level of the stack. I know several folks who have pivoted this way and are happy.

2. Double down - there will always be layers below the AI (drivers, silicon, etc). Sure, ChatGPT will continue chipping away at how much coding we do day to day, but at the end of the day, good luck to an AI trying to debug I2C bus clock stretching issues IRL. And you can bet that these robotic actuators have plenty of hardware issues to debug.

3. Pick an area of tech which is relatively immune (medical/automotive/aerospace) due to regulatory and other barriers to AI entry. You don't necessarily need robotics/CV experience to do this.

4. GTFO (I say this with no judgment) - and work in a different industry which is less likely to be automated. It would not be the most lucrative option but is certainly an option.

Agreed on all points! Very plausible that 250W is peak; other motors on the market vary whether they state peak or sustained so the waters are a little muddy (e.g. I know that the popular BBS02 "750W" motor can put out over 1kW peak).

Also curious what "50%" means in their specs; the top power for the motor is 250W and top speed of 25kph would take ~100W on flat ground, which would throw off your calculations considerably. (Not that I take issue with your calculations, they just haven't published enough data to know what you'd actually be getting.)

This is an interesting alternative to existing kits where you need to replace a wheel (hub-drive) or do surgery on your bottom bracket (typical mid-drive). It also appears to not need an external charger (the charge port appears to be a universal C14, the same as a computer) which is very convenient.

On the downsides, I have severe doubts over the battery cell quality at that price point, and it looks significantly heavier than other options from the metal case alone (I don't see actual specs for weight).

Love the demo video. The mud and fire scenes made me cringe, which I'm sure is exactly what they were going for (as the motor keeps spinning regardless of the foul treatment)!

I will keep my standard mid-drive conversion kit (I've used TSDZ2 and DM-02 in the past) but always love to see alternatives coming online for other segments of the market.

It's difficult to explain without spoilers... one of the characters feels significantly more fleshed out and real because of some artistic choices in the voice acting.

I am not sure I'd go as far as GP and say that the book is not good, but this is one of the cases where the audiobook feels more like a "production" and not just a book in a different medium.

Also see Hello toothpaste (not affiliated) which has fluoride but not SLS: https://www.hello-products.com/products/naturally-whitening-...

Same problem for me, constant canker sores. Switching to Hello hasn't totally eliminated them, but it has reduced them.

NXP also has an automotive line of chips called S32. In addition to only some of that line being 32-bit, it's terribly confusing to have those juxtaposed with STM32... would be nice for one of them to change their naming up a bit

I consider myself a "cyclist" (love OLH, but my personal favorite is Marin Headlands) and picked up an e-bike conversion kit a few years ago. I still have a separate road bike for exercise or adventure rides.

However, the e-bike is far superior when it comes to daily commutes or errands around the city - the amount of assist is adjustable, so where I would ordinarily talk myself into driving to a store if I was tired, now I can turn up the assist while still getting a little blood flowing. I find that it's helpful to be able to separate the times I'm pushing hard vs the times I just need to get somewhere.

I don't use the e-bike for rides with a view, but I also don't resent anyone who does - I know many people who would like to get up OLH, but can't entirely under their own power, so having a little help from an e-bike is perfect. (Using a throttle e-bike is a little different and more akin to motorcycle touring.) Without an e-bike, they wouldn't attempt it at all, which is a shame!

Every instance in the source article uses lower case; not sure if they changed it or the title just got mangled when posting

That would just be a webcam, and there are tons of them out there that don't (to my knowledge) get any blowback.

Example I saw in person a couple years ago (Estes Park, CO): https://originaltaffyshop.com/taffy-cam.php

They had a sign out front saying something like "tell your mom to visit this website so you can wave to her". Nobody seemed to mind. Maybe the difference here is that it is clearly marked?

Yosemite has YARTS: https://yarts.com/

> Wheel of Time ... was considered a mess by fans but was a critical success.

Can you go into why it was considered a mess? I'm a relatively recent finisher of the series so I can't speak to the contemporary reaction of the fanbase, but my impression has been that the current community is, at a minimum, satisfied with Sanderson's work. There are several things that people complain frequently about (and that I agree with) like Mat's character development and the Androl arc. Not to mention the lost possibility of follow-on series after A Memory of Light! That doesn't mean people think it's a mess, though.

Where do you see that? Their website, plus the linked article, say $200.

Close, but it's a little bit different than how you describe it. The router is connected between the phone and the other devices in this user's scenario. The default TTL on Linux and Android is 64. If you tether, the packet will go through your phone and have its TTL decremented to 63 (the phone is a gateway). Then when it arrives at the cell tower with a lower TTL, they know you're tethering and drop the packet.

If you set it to 65 on your host device or router, it will be decremented to 64 on the phone - and is now hard to distinguish from real traffic from the phone.

Chrome actually does have that feature, but maybe it differs a bit from how Firefox implements it. It gives you a "switch to this tab" option in the omnibox if your input matches the title or URL of an open tab.

My particular use case depends on more than 6 participants, which is why I asked - but I think it may not be a common one.

Thanks for explaining! Hope you're able to get it into public beta soon.

edit: I also realized that "slightly inferior" was denigrating, which wasn't really how I intended it, even if you took it as a compliment. Sorry about that.

This looks like a slightly inferior version of https://streamyard.com/ (in particular, fewer participants at each price level) - do you have any value propositions above what they offer?

This is more or less the business model of Planet [0], which is imaging the whole Earth every day with around 200 satellites. (No affiliation, but I previously worked for a different smallsat company.) It would be possible to get a higher visitation than that with more satellites, but it may not be cost-effective (e.g. someone might be willing to pay $X for a subscription to daily images, but not $(48*X) for half-hour images).

I also doubt you could just slap a camera on Starlink satellites. Even ignoring payload size/weight, power consumption, etc, you're typically fighting 3 different constraints when you decide which way to rotate your satellite (sun exposure for power, antenna direction for high-bandwidth network, payload direction if you have cameras or other directional sensors). They're not going to want to try to deal with that for the first iteration of their fleet.

[0] https://www.planet.com/products/planet-imagery/