Because the kid crossing the street in front of the bus can't see the driver who has decided to zip past it from behind, and the driver can't see the kid until it is too late. It's extraordinarily dangerous to run the lights on a bus, and the kid who will be hit doesn't have the benefit of 10 tons of steel protecting them.

Accidents involving school busses have a pretty low fatality rate because the vehicle is so heavy and has so much inertia. It's far more likely the driver of the colliding vehicle will be injured. The kids are far more vulnerable getting on and off than once they are on board.

Um, yeah. I started building my own PCs from parts when I was 13-14.

Good. Cab driver used to a job you could make a living at. Then ride share companies came along and "disrupted" it into a gig job. Of course once cabs were marginalized or driven out of business they started jacking their prices back up, so now everything is worse except for the Uber and Lyft shareholders.

Prices need to come up to something the workers can make a living at. If that makes things too expensive because an extractive mega corp needs to make a profit, then maybe municipalities will do something to limit them and bring in more competition.

Great, so Vizio is violating the license and has no right to reproduce the software. I believe the statutory damage limit for each infraction is $150k? That's gotta be a few billion to split amongst the various projects that are having their copyright violated by Vizio.

There's dead and then there's wish you were dead. Also, the additives in the animal stuff vs what you would get from a Dr.'s Rx could be vastly different and not necessarily well tolerated by humans. Delivery mechanism, drug release timings, active ingredient concentrations, isomers: none of it titrated for human consumption if you get your drugs through a veterinary supply warehouse.

IIS has good integration with active directory, and a lot of government networks run on AD. When I did government work our Java/Tomcat app had to deploy behind IIS so that IIS could do all the CAC/PIV crypto/AD windows stuff and hand us a user identity. Then I had the pleasure of doing NTLM/kerberos binding against an AD forest from java for authz - good times.

The main point of plex for me has been that it has client apps on most major platforms like Android, Roku, Apple TV, iPhone etc. So I get a nice media browsing experience that is not the hell that is DLNA that the wife and kids are willing to use without having to root my devices. I understand the situation /w Jellyfin in terms of client support is better now, but it was not there when I started using plex to build my media library.

This isn't LLM self learning. There is no training taking place. This is using an LLM for pattern matching and classification, something they are quite good at.

This is why I've been against individual homeowner solar subsidies. It's basically a subsidy for upper middle class homeowners at the expense of renters and homeowners with less capital or on a site ill suited for solar. As more and more homes either disconnect from the grid or draw from it less, the per-kW delivery charges have to increase as grid maintenance is a roughly fixed cost. Subsidies should go to utilities or municipalities to build grid scale solar and wind farms that pass the renewable savings on to everyone. If you want your own off-the-grid capable solar farm on your roof, pay for it on your own dime.

Electoral politics is for harm reduction, but it won't solve our problems as long as all we can do is vote for the least worst candidate. We need to be building real communities on the ground for mutual aid and direct action where appropriate. We should use the state where it is a useful tool, route around it where it is unhelpful or inactive, and fight it where it is against us. We don't owe any party or politician our loyalty.

He's talking about the well-known behavior of the Gandhi AI in the Civilization game series where a quirk of programming caused the Indian empire to be enormously aggressive and prone to initiate nuclear first strike.

I live in Boston, where it gets considerably colder than NYC and have no issues charging outside /w an outdoor L2 device mounted to the side of my house. I also spend most weekends in the winter in the mountains in Maine, where it gets very cold. Also no issues with outdoor L2 charging.

New math is back. They just call it "common core" now. The problem with it "working itself out over time" is that yeah it's fine for society as a whole in the long run, but my kid in particular only gets one shot at a primary education. It doesn't really matter much to her if they get it right 5 years from now.

My conclusion about that thought experiment is that it is trivially obvious that the system of books+human agent speaks Chinese even if the components do not. That's tautologically true. I think whether it understands Chinese is unanswerable at the moment. With our current level of understanding of intelligence, it quickly devolves into metaphysics.

Like you said, no individual neuron or even collection of 100K neurons in my brain can be said to really comprehend English, and yet the emergent entity that is me somehow does.

I think the only real conclusion is that until we really understand what intelligence is, to a better level than "I know it when I see it", then we don't really have any business dissembling about what entities are intelligent. Turing said as much when he defined his imitation game.

Because he's 10 and he wanted to try it out and it has a nice GUI for a lot of the tasks that Godot doesn't. He also wants to check out the thing that he sees in the splash screen for the games he plays. I don't want to discourage his interest by redirecting to something he might not understand and can't find as many video tutorials on.

He's learning C# in parallel, but in the meantime, until he learns to code, you can write an entire game loop in Unreal without writing any code at all, and that means he can see something and get feedback without wrestling with a compiler.