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If someone can correlate these cams to a location/elevation for positional information it seems one might be able to create a realtime 3D map of the aurora phenomenon using mvs processing (or mv...m(?)).

The chart on the article is nicely balanced by their chart on anther article about who's losing their shorts in the streaming wars: https://variety.com/vip/will-paramount-and-peacocks-pivots-b...

My takeaway was that this is largely correlated to "not making as much from streaming, gotta make it up in physical media". Disney's middle finger to physical media releases matches their wins through streaming (maybe the losses in the chart don't mean as much for them as the dominance/share from positive sales does?).

Here here! In answer to a below question, I use Ubuntu because of the number of sdks that mainly support Ubuntu but don't require the Ubuntu Store (which I personally find annoying). Also I like Synaptic. Though imperfect it's far less annoying, feeling less like a "curated experience" and more like a tool that's trying to get out of my way and let me work.

The write-up was great and had some good details but seems more intended to drive marketing efforts than an actual tech demo that can be verified by users (with beefy devkits a requirement, I'm sure). I didn't see a DIY in their section of papers that have accompanying code yet ("watch this space" I guess?):

https://www.qualcomm.com/research/artificial-intelligence/ai...

I'd be more interested when they can share that.

For those of you wondering wtf about the name before clicking: "Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices for automatic system builders" but then whois shows:

"This website is for SALE We are selling this website due to several reasons. Contact us at cheena+domainwatch@cheena.net / Twitter @cheenanet / Telegram @cheenanet"

:| Can someone explain whether this is an attempt to drive traffic to a site to drive up the price of the domain sale or something similar?

While I think this is a fantastic idea to help with the "housing shortage" (hint: not a shortage of housing, a shortage of reasonable rents), I'm wondering how repairs and restructuring would happen. Eventually you'll have to put a hole in a wall, or a very large chunk may need to be moved, etc. Is there a "hole patcher printer" in the works as well? What about when they want an addition, etc. Seems like a market waiting in the wings.

Love this bit: :"...But it requires regular checking by staff, and institutional knowledge of how Twitter’s codebase works..."

More like knowledge of how "job security through complexity" was institutionalized into the codebase.

I'm watching with popcorn to see if Twitter catches fire completely or Musk puts out the flames by pissing on the entire codebase (sorry for the visual) but I'm not sure these articles are meant for anyone other than former employees who're still mad about the changeover.

Wouldn't a more fitting name be something clumsy like "prenatalposting"? Necroposting sounds like you're posting after you've died.

Thankyou for writing about your experience. I hope I never have to consult it, but I'm glad it's there.

Usually my validation for ignoring such things is when it's accompanied by "forget Twitter, move here". For someone supposedly worried about engagement to suggest not using absolutely every major traffic source (no matter the numbers) suggests underlying bias.

The US is a low trust society because we're told not to trust people through highly negative news stories. The result is the US being primed to think there are child murderers and rapists under every bush, etc, etc. Ancedent to this unintentional effect was the incentivised "if it bleeds it reads" motivation for promotion of the highly negative.

I'm going to just read "limitation on Chrome" as "purposely defective by design" as there's sufficient incentive to delay disabling to let a few telemetric squeaks escape.

You shouldn't write it. You should promot ChatGPT to write it for extra meta.

Agreed. I could swear this has been actively stated in literature previously.

The whinging was, I assume, to earn some article publishing fee.

Crickets. I miss the sound of crickets.

I'd be carrying more than a pocket knife as essential in Oakland, lately.

Enlisted can't say "Eh, I'm done, kthxbye" like Officers can. This will just give those that want out an easy path to discharge rather than the preventative warning it was supposed to be.

Whether or not you agree with his methodology this is perfectly in line with both tyranical rule and with desperate CEOs: Motivate by putting heads on the block (and further reducing headcount for failure). The replacement has substantial motivation to succeed.

Idiot: "It's a space peanut!"

I pointed to this in another thread, but:

"for some reason, a lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than hiring. Don't do this! This is one of the most important decisions you make in the life of your startup and you need to treat it as such.

And for some reason, students are really bad at this. They just pick someone. They're like, I want to start a business and you want to start a business, let's start a startup together. There are these cofounder dating things where you're like, Hey I'm looking for a cofounder, we don't really know each other, let's start a company. And this is like, crazy. You would never hire someone like this and yet people are willing to choose their business partners this way. It's really really bad. And choosing a random random cofounder, or choosing someone you don't have a long history with, choosing someone you're not friends with, so when things are really going wrong, you have this sort of past history to bind you together, usually ends up in disaster.

We had one YC batch in which nine out of about seventy-five companies added on a new cofounder between when we interviewed the companies and when they started, and all nine of those teams fell apart within the next year. The track record for companies where the cofounders don't know each other is really bad."

from https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/

They should be using hh-rlhf-capable LLM to digest the lot and pick the best. But then what's the use of an editor or publisher anyway if you can do that and publish online.

I'll just leave this here... :https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03166-w

I wouldn't lay blame on Paul's letter specifically.

I'll make the bold clain that there's no industry simply bereft of idea people who have no other function. Mainly because industry has almost no tolerance for people who have a great idea but no understanding of how to go about implementing it, even if that "go about implementing" is mainly having the leadership skills necessary to harangue, terrify, goad, or gingerly coax people who can do the implemeting to act as a cohesive group towards a common goal.

It's unrealistic to think there's any market for the "hey, here's a great idea!" person to receive a check for their brilliant statement and walk into the sunset. There are probably a great many "idea people" who wish that were the case and perhaps feel the world is unfair for this lack. Perhaps those are the kinds of people that the 1-800-Uinvent (or whatever it was) marketing scams preyed upon. Maybe the same group that wants to be the Jobs without putting in the work to be the Woz?

Wait until we get to submit EMG/EEG/ECG emotion profiles correlated with eye tracking so we can consume and direct highly personalized stories that feel immense and moving.

Then let Facebook buy it and make you feel intimately connected to the latest product/party/trend that pays them the most.

I have to beleive this isn't unique to NYC, unless there's some other correlation I'm not getting.

Just good practice not to walk around inside your own home with shoes that walked on who-did-who-knows-what outside your home.

Shouldn't this be "The Last of Us has echoes of the arms race between ants and fungi"?

The scene mentioning the big EMP-reset in Blade Runner 2049 made me wonder just how much would be lost to us in such a scenario. Much that we care about is currently on highly sensitive storage.

What format should I invest in (developing/purchasing/etc) that would A) be easy-ish to read from B) be dense enough to exceed the point I might as well just be using paper/glass slides/microfiche/and so on, and could be ramped back up from pretty crude tech.

Combine "end of civilization", "time-travelling with tech", and other thought-experiment scenarios for fun.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with an archivist acquaintance I met at a conference. Her opinion was that I should donate my personally acrued private assemblage of retrocomputing game systems and personal computers to the Living Computer Museum, out of the belief that they'd be under better care there than in the hands of a private collector.

While LCM volunteers may have a keen interest in preservation, I don't feel there's the same sense of ownership as systems literally brought back to life/restored by the hand of the person who purchased them expressly for the purpose of sharing those experiences.

U.S. state politicians are called out as complicit in attempting to roll back or revise child labor laws to allow minors as young as 14 to work in extremely dangerous jobs such as meat packing and coal mining due to labor shortage from adults, with additional indemnification of the involved industries in case of anticipated sickness and even death of said children.

Is this happening in your state as well? Seems this will specifically target working poor families who have no other options.