{"id":12211,"date":"2023-07-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T20:45:35","slug":"7-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12211","title":{"rendered":"7.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the Vision Pro was finally announced, people working on it believed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2023-07-16\/apple-creates-new-vision-products-group-vpg-for-future-mixed-reality-headsets-lk5g2ee4\">development team would eventually be broken up<\/a> and distributed across the company \u2014 matching the approach used by Apple\u2019s other core devices. But the recent name change seems to imply that the current structure is here to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is, it\u2019s hard to say with any certainty whether this will truly be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23797349\/how-do-you-live-review-studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki\">the moment when Hayao Miyazaki steps away from feature animation <\/a>for good (he\u2019ll likely never step away from animation entirely, directing a new short for the Ghibli Museum during his last retirement, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghibli-museum.jp\/en\/films\/works\/#boro_the_caterpillar\">Boro the Caterpillar<\/a><\/em>). Until a few days ago, it was also hard to say what this mysteriously titled final film would actually be about, following a bold PR strategy of, well, not doing any PR. Only a single poster for the film featuring a heron was released before its theatrical debut, without so much as press or preview screenings, trailers, screenshots, or even a synopsis. Ok<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGlobal Airlines\u201d &#8211; attention grabbing, sure; but here\u2019s the reality: <\/p>\n<p>Starting ANY AOC is a monumental challenge; even for the most experienced teams. I\u2019ve been a part of start-ups &amp; I\u2019ve even failed with a start-up of my own. I have 2 friends who have succeeded with starting\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TXIynT0u0g\">https:\/\/t.co\/TXIynT0u0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Giordano (@JTTsteve) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JTTsteve\/status\/1681121583186817025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Domains like army?ml, pentagon?ml, navy?ml and af?ml all have Mail Exchange records pointing to &#39;handle?catchemail?ml&#39;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ep0NMTfEp4\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ep0NMTfEp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @mikko (@mikko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikko\/status\/1680947795862200325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>At the wave pool, which is lined with an artificial beach and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/travel\/waco-surf-waves-drawing-californians\/\">ringed by cabanas and a small hotel<\/a>, the Floridians ripped oceanlike swells for six hours before coming landside. They then congregated at the hotel\u2019s mezzanine bar overlooking the waves to rip righteous tequila shots. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to do something fun and then go out and drink,\u201d one partyer told me, \u201crather than just drink.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what has NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/leehamnews.com\/2023\/07\/18\/pointifications-nasa-pulls-the-plug-on-electric-airplanes\/\">abandoned<\/a>? Late last month, the agency pulled the plug on the X-57 electric airplane before the first flight. NASA concluded that the electric and battery technology for the X-57, a small airplane, is too dangerous. NASA wouldn\u2019t even authorize test flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/notoriousrob.substack.com\/p\/please-stop-with-the-mls-hyperbole?sd=pf\">idea<\/a> seems to be that the MLS is so important, so critical, and an institution that drives equality and social justice that it should be left alone. But what we\u2019re likely to get is the <strong>exact opposite of being left alone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the proof is getting <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6294640\/remote-work-winning\/\">stronger<\/a> that a lack of flexibility can hurt in the long term. Companies with flexible work policies are growing more quickly than those that require people to be in the office full-time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3NPcx7h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Flex Index<\/a>, released July 18, which collects office requirements on more than 4,500 companies with 30,000 locations and that employ more than 100 million people globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fromthedesk.substack.com\/p\/trip-report-rafting-the-selway-to\">Selway is a storied river<\/a> to whitewater enthusiasts, though not many have floated it due to the limited access the US Forest Service allows. The water is only high enough for rafts to embark confidently in late May through early August, and because it\u2019s such a coveted river with a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Wild_and_Scenic_Rivers_System\">National Wild and Scenic River<\/a> distinction attached, only one group can launch per day. Obtaining a permit is among the most difficult in the Forest Service system; entry into the yearly lottery yields odds of under 1% as over 10,000 people seek around 60 spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDark Side\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/2023\/07\/18\/pink-floyd-dark-side-moon-50\/\">represented the culmination of the group\u2019s struggle to extricate itself from the long shadow of original leader<\/a> Syd Barrett, the textbook case of a 1960s rocker who went the chemical distance and never returned. As the new documentary makes clear, The Pink Floyd (as they were originally called, fusing the names of Barrett\u2019s favorite American blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council) was very much a product of Barrett\u2019s visionary acidhead whimsy, with bassist Roger Waters, keyboardist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason supporting the leader\u2019s singing, songwriting and lead guitar. The magic lasted through the group\u2019s eclectic first singles, but as early as the tour for the 1967 debut album \u201cThe Piper at the Gates of Dawn,\u201d an LSD-addled, mentally ill Barrett was staring into the middle distance and playing one note for entire sets. He was barely present on the follow-up, \u201cA Saucerful of Secrets\u201d (1968), and got jettisoned from the band shortly thereafter, with guitarist David Gilmour already drafted to take his place. Fellow musician John Etheridge later remembered thinking that Gilmour should \u201cenjoy it while it lasts, because without Syd that band\u2019s going nowhere\u201d \u2014 one of the great wrong calls in the history of popular music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02299-w\">suggest<\/a> that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft still <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/17\/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked\/\">doesn\u2019t know<\/a> \u2014 or want to share \u2014 how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealthily break into dozens of email inboxes, including those belonging to<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/12\/chinese-hackers-us-government-microsoft-email\/\">several federal government agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistical <a href=\"https:\/\/dm13450.github.io\/2023\/07\/15\/Stat-Arb-Walkthrough.html\">arbitrage<\/a> (stat arb) is a pillar of quantitate trading that relies on mean reversion to predict the future returns of an asset. Mean reversion believes that if a stock has risen higher it\u2019s more likely to revert in the short term which is the opposite of a momentum strategy that believes if a stock has been rising it will continue to rise. This blog post will walk you the \u2018the\u2019 statistical arbitrage paper <a href=\"https:\/\/math.nyu.edu\/~avellane\/AvellanedaLeeStatArb071108.pdf\">Statistical Arbitrage in the US Equities Market<\/a> apply it to a stock\/ETF pair and then look at an intraday crypto stat arb strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/07\/us-space-commander-touts-powerful-role-of-megaconstellations-in-ukraine\/\">seeing<\/a> for the first time what a megaconstellation means to the world,&#8221; Dickinson said. &#8220;That provides such resiliency and redundancy in terms of maintaining satellite communications in this example. That is powerful, and the department is moving in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite reconnaissance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02684527.2023.2219013\">emerged<\/a> as an irreplaceable source of U.S. intelligence during the Cold War. The vast resources required to build intelligence satellites quickly transformed space reconnaissance into an industrial-scale activity. Though satellite reconnaissance primarily served policymakers in Washington, two of its critical nodes for research, development, and operations were in Sunnyvale, California and Rochester, New York. In both places, a coalition of scientists and engineers in corporations, universities, and intelligence agencies collaborated to create satellites designed to penetrate the Iron Curtain. These technical experts were critical not only for the development of satellite reconnaissance systems, but also for their operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At United, bids for 978 captain vacancies, or about 50% of the vacancies posted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airliners.net\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=1485809\">have gone unfilled<\/a> in the past year, United pilot union data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2023\/07\/austin-vernon-on-electric-vehicles-hybrids.html\">companies<\/a> are now profitable without subsidies. Protectionists, unions, and car makers that still aren\u2019t good at making battery cars drive lobbying for subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe best way to understand BLM is as a delivery mechanism for Black Panther ideology passed through a filter of marketing language that makes it palatable to American Elites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realchrisrufo<\/a>, America\u2019s Cultural Revolution<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Daws (@JoshDaws) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshDaws\/status\/1681798229686472705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ollama.ai\/\">Bundle<\/a> a model\u2019s weights, configuration, prompts, data and more into self-contained packages that run anywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ycombinator.com\/library\/8d-how-to-build-a-great-series-a-pitch-and-deck\">purpose<\/a> of a Series A pitch is to show investors why they should invest in your business. It should provide a clear and concise overview of the business you\u2019ve built, and then paint a picture of where that business could go and why raising money will help you get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending time in China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a39b9dbf-decc-4e63-9929-628c75519058\">essential to avoid surprises<\/a>. Its political environment may not be as welcoming to foreigners as previously, but that means more, not fewer, foreigners should travel there. Analysts, journalists, businesspeople and students need to be in China to plumb the complexity and nuances of the country and its politics.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the record, if MSNBC contributor Dan Goldman handed me Don Jr\u2019s laptop, and it looked the same as Hunter\u2019s, I\u2019d run it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaJoNYC\/status\/1682514635356774401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>ExxonMobil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/07\/21\/2023\/exxon-carbon-denbury\">staked<\/a> out its vision for its transition to a lower-carbon business model when it spent $4.9 billion to acquire Denbury, a smaller Texas oil and gas company with the U.S.\u2019s largest network of pipelines designed to carry carbon dioxide. The acquisition signals the momentum growing behind \u201ccarbon management\u201d as an enterprise that fits better with the traditional strengths of oil and gas companies than renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain is <a href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/highlights-from-the-comments-on-british?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=89120&amp;post_id=134953448&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;utm_medium=email\">suffering a decline in productivity<\/a> and income which isn\u2019t fully reflected in nominal GDP statistics.   This could be because it\u2019s expressed in a declining pound, rather than in declining nominal wages\/profits. I don\u2019t know enough economics to feel like I have good intuitions about declining currency values.  It could also be partly because post-recession economic growth happened more in new employment than in higher wages for the already-employed.  Potential causes are Brexit, a dysfunctional real estate market, and underinvestment in R&amp;D &#8211; but low confidence in all of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iCloud is <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/17\/how-does-icloud-work-plus-a-new-version-of-cirrus\/\">descended<\/a> from a long series of features in older versions of Mac OS, going back to iTools in January 2000. It\u2019s currently divided into two main functional services: <strong>CloudKit<\/strong> to handle databases, and <strong>iCloud Drive<\/strong> for storage of files. These appear to be implemented in the same vast distributed databases served by Apple\u2019s own data centres and those of third-parties including Amazon\u2019s AWS. macOS also includes some specialist tasks relying on iCloud such as the Find My service, and App Store apps are able to synchronise small shared dictionaries of key-value pairs such as preferences in an Ubiquitous Key-Value store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hun\u00addreds of doc\u00adtors across the U.S. have en\u00adtrusted record\u00adings of their pri\u00advate talks with pa\u00adtients to a startup promis\u00ading to turn the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions into us\u00adable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/at-startup-that-says-its-ai-writes-medical-records-humans-do-a-lot-of-the-work-794be22e\">med\u00adical records through ar\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adcial in\u00adtel\u00adli\u00adgence<\/a>.  The tech\u00adnol\u00adogy makes mul\u00adti\u00adple er\u00adrors while pro\u00adduc\u00ading the re\u00adports, such as fail\u00ading to use cor\u00adrect med\u00adical ter\u00admi\u00adnol\u00adogy and adding med\u00adi\u00adcines a pa\u00adtient isn\u2019t tak\u00ading, ac\u00adcord\u00ading to cur\u00adrent and for\u00admer work\u00aders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other chal\u00adlenges are more ad\u00admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/thank-tesla-the-biggest-obstacle-to-ev-ownership-will-soon-be-history-dc9945be\">Fum\u00adble-free au\u00adto\u00admatic billing is one of the glo\u00adries of the Su\u00adper\u00adcharger net\u00adwork<\/a>. Tes\u00adla\u2019s Su\u00adper\u00adcharg\u00aders haven\u2019t pre\u00advi\u00adously needed in\u00adput screens or card read\u00aders. Last year Tesla an\u00adnounced a deal with the White House to open 3,500 new or ex\u00adist\u00ading Su\u00adper\u00adcharger sta\u00adtions to the pub\u00adlic along ma\u00adjor high\u00adways. How\u00adever, in <em>or\u00adder to be el\u00adi\u00adgi\u00adble for fed\u00aderal in\u00adcen\u00adtives, pub\u00adlic Su\u00adper\u00adcharg-ers need to have some point-of-sale in\u00adter\u00adface<\/em>.  Apart from charg\u00ading, con\u00adsumers\u2019 big\u00adgest is\u00adsue with EVs has been af\u00adford\u00adabil\u00adity. In a Cox Au\u00adto\u00admo\u00adtive sur\u00advey, 51% of re\u00adspon\u00addents said they were in\u00adter\u00adested in buy\u00ading an EV. 43% said they were hold\u00ading off due to high prices. Mean\u00adwhile, a fleet of highly hyped mass-mar\u00adket EVs (Ford Mus\u00adtang Mach-E, Ford F-150 Light\u00adning, VW ID.4, Cadil\u00adlac Lyriq) are nailed to the show\u00adroom floors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamontagne.fr\/moulins-03000\/loisirs\/route-des-vacances-la-plus-ancienne-concession-citroen-de-france-a-moulins_14345500\/\">Citro\u00ebn dealership in Moulins thus follows the evolutions of National Road 7<\/a> which gradually bypasses, site after site, the hearts of the villages. However, the intimate history of this family also unfolds in the shadow of the Holiday Road. Accidents, often fatal at a time when the seat belt did not exist, directly affect the family. Marie-Madeleine Dubois and Guy Dallois, died, together, in the car, in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fascinating comparison between the diversity of US orbital rockets and those in China from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John__Holst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@John__Holst<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XoWFPhMWGN\">https:\/\/t.co\/XoWFPhMWGN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p4VduNCJA4\">pic.twitter.com\/p4VduNCJA4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SciGuySpace\/status\/1683168760146829313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Vision Pro was finally announced, people working on it believed the development team would eventually be broken up and distributed across the company \u2014 matching the approach used by Apple\u2019s other core devices. 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