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Why should California taxpayers subsidize other Californians to buy EVs that are made in other states? Like if you care about emissions aren't the cars made in California using Cal…

There are a couple of arms commonly used in research around the $10k mark, namely the Franka Emika and UFACTORY xArm 6. The ALOHA project uses the ViperX 300 6DoF, which is around …

Sorry, my use of "intelligent" here was imprecise. They can clearly learn, but seem much less intelligent than other animals that we commonly eat, and not anywhere close to the sam…

I visited an experimental octopus farm in Hawaii once, expecting to come away feeling guilty about eating octopus since I had heard so much about how smart they are. It ended up ha…

As noted in the quote, the CommonCrawl WARC files don’t contain images themselves, LAION used those files to find img tags and downloaded them themselves

I actually did have a check for AWS keys earlier today, but as far as I can tell all the AWS keys with well defined prefixes are key IDs and not true secrets. It will still pick up…

lidar isn’t able to read the state of traffic lights as far as I know, and I believe lidar based systems detect the location of traffic lights from maps

I've been trying to not take my M1 Air for granted and keep it fast, so I've been using dbxfs instead of the official Dropbox client. I hardly notice it running and still have acce…

The most successful I’ve been at this is clever uses of position: sticky. You have to fall back to absolute positioning and scrolling the fixed headers in JS on browsers that aren’…

I got bit by this the other day when returning a nil pointer to a struct as an error. It was incredibly frustrating when I finally figured out what was going on, and I'm curious if…

Plus, the world's poor stand to benefit so much from climate change!

One thing that I've appreciated now that I've spent a decent amount of time writing Go as an individual developer is that it's much easier to jump into open source code and make sm…

I loled at the yoga mat comparison because unless I'm mistaken no one is eating their yoga mats

I don't know where people would have gotten that idea from: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

Having worked on mobile code sharing a lot at Dropbox, I would say that the bridging overhead may not be a huge issue depending on how you structure your code. The approach we took…

Just to clarify things (I work on the iPhone app), the only thing being transmitted in plaintext are the names of the files, not the file data or username/password, and because we …

To me, the more interesting part about minecraft's success is that it gets a lot of people doing things that look like work to me for fun. Also, it does this with a high learning c…

Maybe it's just overzealous copywriting, but it seems like all they figured out is that a low GI, high protein diet is better than the other combinations they tested, and are far f…

Based on the little I know about this, it probably beat being almost any employee. With $6 million invested, sold for $50 million, wouldn't you need more than a 2% stake to earn a …

It's strange to me that you use Guns, Germs, and Steel as an example of the virtues of wheat, when Jared Diamond called agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human r…

Apply saying you're just curious and you'll be approved within a day. We're looking at getting rid of the approval step for sandboxed API access but for now it's faster to just app…

For those interested in the API there are also official bindings for ruby, python, java, and objective-c.

If his full-time job was writing essays then I'd hope he charge for him. edit: After reading it again, I think this is a poor retort. Paul's essays on entrepreneurship are better w…