As a frequent "acoustic" cyclist, I'm torn on this. E-bike adoption is clearly building support for bike infrastructure, so I think I'd rather deal with the occasional heavy e-bike whizzing by me if the alternative is sharing the road with cars.

This is super cool.

Where is the bird dataset coming from? I assumed ebird at first, but these datapoints don't map on to ebird hotspots...

Also, where did you get the collection of creative commons licensed bird species photos?

The main birds dataset is from eBird, and the photos are from Wikipedia.

If someone has the time, I'd love to see the total amount of lead added to the atmosphere by burning up satellites compared to the amount from other anthropogenic sources.

Rough napkin math would be negligible impact. The amount of lead in a satellite is very small, if not actually zero. The amount of lead added by burning coal is about 30 tonnes per day.

There is almost definitely a small, negligible amount of lead in the solder in them. Eg NASA requires a small (single digit I think) percentage of lead to prevent tin whiskering.

> almost definitely a small, negligible amount of lead in the solder in them

Emphasis on negligible. Assuming 0.07 to 0.28 ppm lead [1] in meteoroids, space is dosing us with half to 2 kg a year [2].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001670...

[2] https://earthsky.org/space/tons-of-extraterrestrial-dust-fal...

But the result from the SQL query is going to be... a table. So at some point, tables need to go into context, and we need to know how well LLMs can incorporate those tables.

"creating panic among many - particularly Indian passengers - who even chose to leave the aircraft"

Are they are getting off the aircraft because they believe the "fee" will be required of their employment imminently, and that their employer will not pay it, and this will lead to their visa getting cancelled before they could return to the United States?

IMHO, it seems like there's a good chance of confusion and delay when reentering the US in the middle of this kind of change. It would be better to avoid that, if possible. And in the case that your visa does get canceled, it would be easier to fight that from in the US, and if necessary, to wind down your US household from inside the US as well. Everything gets a lot harder if you have to do it from outside the country.

> it would be easier to fight that from in the US

Would it? Aren't ICE agents showing up to court hearings and deporting people?

At least you could meet with your lawyers in person, during mutual daylight.

Do you even have standing to sue from abroad about a visa revoked capriciously?

It's all relative.

It doesn’t seem very unclear - the president made up a policy it isn’t possible to comply with, since there is no way to actually pay the massive bribe, in addition to probably being illegal, but nonetheless CBP may start refusing entry to people in hours.

why do you say its a bribe? where is actual money going?

Like many cleptocrats, DJT seems to think that money received by the federal government is somehow his. However I don't think bribe is the appropriate term, it's more of a shakedown.

To the state coffers where it is money laundered to friends of the political class via favored private enterprises that win contracts for things like building border walls, keeping databases on US citizens, or running detention facilities.

Do you take contention with the part where I indicate the money paid goes into the state coffers?

Or the part that money from the state coffers is then laundered to friends of the political class via favored private enterprises that win contracts?

Let us be specific about the part that is the "unsubstantiated rumor", so that I can come up with "any evidence" which is a low bar to pass indeed.

you mean there isn't enough money in the coffers already for the 'laundering to friends' that have to create new schemes?

It seems for the moment they will only check for this new fee on entry at the borders. If the fee has been not paid entry will be denied from tonight.

Hence, if you stay in the country nothing will change. And they can wait until this gets played out in the courts, media, congress etc.

Or that, like the de minimus situation wrt post, there just is no process in place to pay the fee and you're left in a legal limbo, or worse.

I remarked on this back in March, prompted by Théophile Cantelobre's visualization of the connections between people in the culinary world and the restaurants they've been involved in.

https://bjornwestergard.com/llm-extractors/

I'm a software engineer who has been part of a union bargaining committee, albeit at a non-profit media organization. I've known many engineers who have done it at for-profit organizations.

"How do you collectively bargain around stock options?"

Same as collectively bargaining over base comp?

"remote work policies"

My union contract guarantees me and all other software devs in my shop remote work for the life of the contract.

"pace of AI automation"

My union contract requires bargaining over any mandatory use of of AI. So far, there haven't been any major disagreements with management over this. At other workplaces in my union, management has had worse ideas.

Anecdote: I have spoken to primary school teachers on the east coast of the United States who report that in recent years, there were not supported by parents and administrators when trying to separate kids from their phones ins school.

There was no market in land, so land could not have a monetary value in feudalism proper.

Not having access to land you had a right to farm (and therefore needing to be a tenant farmer of some kind or – even worse – a wage labourer) was pretty bad for a peasant. It was also hard/impossible to escape from on the back of one’s labour. It is in this sense that land (or associated rights) was worth significantly more than one could make through labour.

I've recently been learning about Datalog, which is excellent for all the queries that you'd want to do with recursive CTEs, but has the added benefit of making it much easier to factor one's code into discrete units (relations) for reusability.