// NOTE in the meantime, we added asynchronous loaders everywhere using
// a third party library which makes the page even slower to load, and
// increased the recommended CPU and RAM requirements for both the server
// and the client.
// We also added a noscript tag to tell the users they can't load the page
// without JavaScript so the loaders can load.
You would think part of the willingness to contribute financial support would stem from trust. I was fortunate enough to have my parent's financial support and they never asked about my grades.
Can someone with legal expertise or knowledge on this topic explain to me in simple terms how on earth asset forfeiture without conviction can exist in a country that claims to have due process? How has it been legally justified?
The legal theory is that asset forfeiture actions are filed against the assets, not the owners, so the owners civil liberties are not violated.
The history of civil forfeiture actually dates back to the British, with the British Navigation Acts generally recognized as the first such law. It spread to the U.S. colonies through "writs of assistance" and was part of the original legislation passed by the First Congress (to enforce taxes and customs duties). It was limited to that until Prohibition, when it was expanded to target bootleggers. After that success, it was expanded to target drug dealers generally and has since been used on a broad basis by law enforcement agencies without discretion.
There is still due process: the asset is accused of being used in furtherance of a crime, or the result of a crime, and the asset is required to prove that it was not. However, because this is a civil action, the burden of proof is simply "more likely than not."
Note that some states are pushing back against prosecutors' use of civil forfeitures where the defendants have not been convicted or even charged with a crime. In California, the Bar Association is reviewing proposals to sanction prosecutors for pursuing civil forfeiture in such situations (though, full disclosure: they've been reviewing these proposals for almost a decade...).
I have limited experience with CUDA but will this help solve the CUDA/CUDNN dependency version nightmare that comes with running various ML libraries like tensorflow or onnx?
My experience, over 10 years building models with libraries using CUDA under the hood, this problem has nearly gone away in the past few years. Setting up CUDA on new machines and even getting multi GPU/nodes configuration working with NCCL and pytorch DDP, for example, is pretty slick. Have you experienced this recently?
yes, especially if you are trying to run various different projects you don't control
some will need specific versions of cuda
right now I masked cuda from upgrades in my system and I'm stuck on an old version to support some projects
I also had plenty of problems with gpu-operator to deploy on k8s: that helm chart is so buggy (or maybe just not great at handling some corner cases? no clue) I ended up swapping kubernetes distribution a few times (no chance to make it work on microk8s, on k3s it almost works) and eventually ended up installing drivers + runtime locally and then just exposing through containerd config
"There is a better way to handle this and that’s to use invitations sent by users. You can only connect to someone who invites you. There is zero spam and no need to validate email or phones, since you send your invitation to the email or phone number you personally know."
This does not seem like a robust solution. Also if you think of social networks as a network graph, then this seriously limits reach as you heavily rely on key folks who are a part of multiple networks of friends to invite those friends, etc which makes it really hard to scale. Any workaround to that problem, will inevitably introduce access for scammers.
| A suitably detailed feature ticket isn't much more than a prompt. The ticket would need to get down to a code level in specification of what needed to be done.
This is the part I think folks underestimate when saying that "Coding as a career might be over". Gen AI can write decent code, but constructing software from code, and coming up with implementation ideas and turning those into tickets still feels far away at least from my experience using ChatGPT and CoPilot. Also those systems were trained on code but I don't know that they have the best idea of quality of the code they were trained on.
In my experience and at this point in my career ark I can say that "coding" itself hasn't been the hardest part of the job in ... 20 years? Coding was never difficult. Understanding the rats nest of code that comprises a product is a big barrier. The whole "I know this looks batshit crazy but we do it this way for a business reason" and it goes on and on. Not to mention the database full of tables that are gigantic and nobody knows what they're for anymore (This company maybe your cell carrier I kid you not).
In all seriousness though, an AI at this point can do some cool things with some handholding, prompt refinement, etc such that its almost a Jr. Dev. Both more or less went to school for CS and both are minimally experienced but have a lot of code to look at and draw conclusions from. Neither know anything about the business domain. Both generate candidate solutions that will at best require some additional guidance.
Personally, I don't see things getting too far beyond this in the near term. Perhaps AI becomes a very good Jr Dev who can handle "write me a function with inputs Foo,Bar that returns the [biz logic] as Baz" and the "coders" modern job is to generate maybe 50% of the necessary code where the other 50% is the integration.
Who knows ... but I dont see people saying the things I think people would say if anyone was actually doing this for realsies.
Coding well is very difficult, that is one of the reasons why all of our software is still unreliable and ridden with bugs. I agree its not the hardest problem in product development.
It's not perfect but to get an idea of adding one more dimension on top of the three dimensions we can visualize is thinking of color as the 4th dimension. There's a game called 4D Maze created by a topolgist that's availble in iphone app store. The visualization is 3d but if you can imagine the colors taking up the same space (instead of being right next to each other in 3d space), it kinda works. At least, it's the closest I've ever come to feeling like I could visualize or understand an additional dimension.
I unfortunately couldn't find the great article that first clued me into this connection but this article from 2023 details some of his (more specifically MSD, his capital investing company) investment into office real estate - https://therealdeal.com/magazine/national-april-2023/dell-di... . One happens to be an office to residential conversion but many of the others mentioned are staying as offices.
Heat related deaths are not uncommon. And likely undercounted[1].
It's one thing to not put in place protections. It's another to actively prevent protections from being put in place. Truly shows lack of compassion for laborers.
Nothing has stopped, and nothing is stopping businesses and unions from putting their own protections in place.
The articles says "dozens" of deaths across the country per year are heat related. How many are from Florida? Seems like largely a non-issue - hundreds of people die from falling off ladders every year[1], for comparison.
But... NPR likes to sensationalize and politically charge these sorts of headlines to rile people over "Florida Bad" since it's currently a Republican Governor.
Yesterday you didn't know about this, hadn't put one second of thought into it, and didn't care about it. Today, metaphoric you is outraged by it. ie, you're being played.
The entire existence of labor laws is because businesses tend to not do what is best for their workers and workers need and deserve protections.
Not all workers are in unions. And even if they are, that shouldn't mean local governments shouldn't also be able to put protections in place.
All jobs have risks. Ladders are a necessary tool for jobs. Having workers labor in extreme heat without protections to prevent medical illness is not.
I'm not outraged. But certainly disappointed and hope for better for the laborers of Florida.
they're probably using Chime haha, which as of my last use was lackluster