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> One the one hand the issues between the US and China are not about "political values", they are about geopolitical interests, you could make a list and check one by one. That wouldn't change if China was a democracy. On the other hand the US is best 'friend', and has been best 'friend' with some of the least democratic countries on the planet.

It's not about one or the other, it's about both (i.e. China both having the power to be geopolitical rival and having incompatible political values). If one or the other would be true, the situation would be quite different.

Also, the US hasn't been "best 'friend[s]' with some of the least democratic countries on the planet." It certainly has been willing to court them and look the other way in the context of a larger geopolitical effort, but once the political necessity stops, the "friendliness" gets cold.

> Edit: In fact the US do not want China to become a democracy as that would actually hurt their strategy and interests against China. For instance, that would make a reunification with Taiwan more likely, which the US do not want at all.

Oh come on. That's utter nonsense.

The US strategy towards China was economic liberalization would bring political liberalization. Xi has demonstrated that the Americans were fools to think that, so their strategy is changing.
If I was having my toddler threatened by criminals on a regular basis, I'd have to question my life choices.
I was amazed at how resilient Starship was despite how many engines had failed, right up until the point they needed to yaw for stage separation and lost control. They've gotta improve the reliability of those engines (which I'm sure they will), but it's a testament to the quality of their control software how far they got despite having those malfunctioning engines.
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Try this one [1] which contains an obligation for operators to comply and maintain secrecy. I'm not a lawyer, and definitely not a swedish lawyer, but my point is, despite baked in protections, like most countries, Sweden seems to have a robust set of overlapping national security and surveillance laws.

[1] https://lagen.nu/prop/2006/07:63
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NVidia made this, OK. Not sure what is the significance of this? Can someone explain?
> This test launch was never planned to actually make orbit.

Very, very technically true, but not really. Their target trajectory was only a few tens of m/s short of orbit.

> aerodynamic stresses similar

Right, within one percent.
Just the opposite. This is engineer-driven testing.
Yes, it is one of those things that many experienced makefile writers know to avoid, but the tool does not guide new users to this wiser approach. Contrast with Bazel, which does not pollute the workspace with outputs.
Replace 'hate' with "things I don't like" and you'll see why your comment provides no insight. Hate is subjective and political.
I've often wondered why Wordpress doesn't start a public social network that syndicates only Wordpress sites. Each new user could get a default wordpress.org site using a default social networky theme & plugin or you could point your profile at your own hosted Wordpress site that had a plugin to syndicate - maybe using PubSubHubbub?
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Because all laws and bans are tradeoffs. By banning something that doesn't have a significant effect you might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

How many lives are saved and traumas avoided through people's ability to defend themselves with guns? If that number is higher than the number of toddler accidents, gun ban would effectively cause an increase in PTSD and deaths.

P.S.: just to clarify, by "significant" I mean significant in a statistical sense of not being insignificant (very close to zero, noise-level), not "majority".
I've been a Mullvad customer for some time and I'm quite satisfied. But the main issue I have is that many of its servers are blacklisted by Cloudflare and other services. Because Mullvad provides the strongest anonymity a VPN can provide, it attracts not only normal users, but also malicious users (scammers, hackers, or less malicious but more numerous scrappers).
OK but I don't think chalking it up to 'weather-related reason' is entirely accurate either. That may make up a portion of it [1] but it doesn't make up all of it [2]. And I agree that the US has a high prescription culture, but you could argue too that this is an artifact of having an exceptional health care system by most metrics. Mental health disorders are complex with a multitude of causes and it's rather reductive to say that they're due to "the social aggression inherent in US life".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258674/
[2] https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/stressed-a...
That 2029 timeline seems a tad aggressive - https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087167893/elon-musk-mars-202....
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> How is american governments access to other nations data fine but not the other way around?

Nothing's stopping nation-states from forking Linux-based systems and open source tools to circumvent Microsoft, Apple, Netgear, etc. There isn't enough political buy-in to wean countries off of Windows, Mac, Android, Intel, AMD etc.

German schools for a while used OpenOffice as Office 365 had too many privacy issues. But these are small-scale changes that are temporary, and don't go beyond the muncipality level [0].

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germa...
That interpretation probably does not pass muster. The guidance from the US Copyright Office leans on substantial human authorship or creative changes or interpretation of the output of AI generative tools.

Probably better to just link the actual guidance, it’s only a couple pages.

https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf
SLS to Starship is not a good comparison. If all starship had to do was fly into space it would have succeeded.
> without a single failure

well..at least 8 engines failed on the way up. At least a majority of them were lit!

There was lots of very heavy debris that left the pad and flew hundreds of feet away upon ignition; I have a feeling that some debris came back up and hit an engine or two.
Is this a warrant canary? Maybe the police seized machines but they were blocked from commenting so they published this implausible claim the police went away empty handed.
I think that was more because places like Reddit just linking directly to the image meant they couldn't serve ads to pay for it. So they needed to make an incentive for people to directly visit the site, and the most obvious way was to just cut out Reddit as a necessary component to a user discovering more images.
The idea that "great leaders" exists is in itself a personal belief, isn't it? In my opinion "great leaders" are jobs that need to be done, not specific people. If Musk's personal characteristics make him viable to be a "great leader", there's at least a million other people that could have taken his place.
Resolve works on Linux too, which is one reason I support them over other options.
Adjacent to this discussion is the "All Up Testing" concept from the Saturn era. The conservative testing strategy was to test each component individually, then put them together and test them as a system. All up eschewed this conservative approach, testing everything that was ready. It's only marginally germane to this discussion, but a great historical note since other commenters are comparing the Starship with the Saturn V.

http://heroicrelics.org/info/all-up/all-up-flight-testing.ht...
I remember I think it was when they first landed the booster successfully, there was a big "USA! USA! USA!" cheer from mission control. I thought that was a bit of an ugly look myself.
It depends on the point of view from which such criticism is being made.

Someone who holds a belief that trans-identifying males are women, but considers that they should be excluded from women's sports because of the long-lasting pubertal effects of testosterone, would likely have no issue with referring to one of these males as 'she'.

However, someone who doesn't believe that that such males can be women, and that this is the primary reason why they shouldn't be eligible to compete in women's sports, is more likely to use 'he' in reference to one of these males, as it reflects their underlying philosophical view on the issue.
OK, fair point. In my head it was a fairly big tilde.

I don't think it's a terrible start, but yes, of course, YMMV and one should never go doing such things without a bit of reading about.
I've worked in aerospace. The organizations (both public and private) would all claim to fail "within the confines of a safe environment".

One small BS detector is when there's some unplanned/unmitigated test outcome that gets characterized as a "test anomaly" rather than being transparent about the details.

>they've already mapped out the failure modes and are able to prevent them when it really matters

This remains to be seen. The shuttle also had all their failure modes mapped out. As did CST-100. Yet massive failures still occurred.
I cannot verify, but delving deep into electrical engineering topics I’m guessing most of that training set is coming from expensive college text books and papers that are behind paywalls. My guess is it scraped all of Sci-Hub. Which is a great resource, albeit illegal.
>In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of absurd that someone could make a song with someone else’s voice, and not pay royalties of any sort.

It's absurd that someone could think it's fair to send men with guns to make someone pay them just for copying how they speak/sing. And unprecedented; imagine if Elvis' estate was allowed to go after every Elvis impersonator who sung non-Elvis songs in Elvis' accent!
As I said, fire is useful. Vision is definitely one of Elon's strengths, along with enough knowledge to understand feasibility. Execution doesn't appear to be one of his strengths, but he's made good hires for people who also recognize Elon's strengths and weaknesses and can successfully manage him.
From watching the launch, my absolutely pulled from my butt guess is that something went wrong with the stage separation system, and that the explosion was deliberately triggered by the SpaceX team / triggered by automated guardrails when the mission didn't go according to parameters.

If that's true, then they can just fix whatever is wrong with the stage separation. And if it's something else, they can probably fix that too. Doesn't seem like it was anything unchangeably / structurally wrong with the entire craft.
Looking at the footage it might seem that some of them exploded or failed during flight.
Parable of the Pots - Quantity leads to quality

https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/quantity-leads-to-quality...

[A] ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
It's not a problem with the people as much as it's a side effect of high mobility etc. Your friend might decide they're moving to New Zealand and that's them gone forever. And so it's just sensible not to bet on friends sticking through life. If you value it above all else then there's literally small villages in the middle of nowhere you can pool together and buy.
The adult industry should adopt Bitcoin
You can gather information by just leaving the rocket on the pad. Saying, “we can’t fail no matter what,” ahead of your failure doesn’t mean anyone else has to accept you didn’t fail.
She's way too important to risk on the first crewed mission to Mars (which is going to be very risky). This is what astronauts are for.
There is a huge graveyard of image hosts - it's not for lack of trying. There are all the pomf.se clones that are community supported (like catbox.moe) which don't even break even from patreon.

The problem I see is that once you get even to the scale of a 10th of size of imgur your hosting bills (storage + bandwidth) will cross into the 10s of thousands per month, which would require you to be in the top 1% of Patreon users. I don't think you'd find people lining up to donate for such a service, especially given there are so many copycats.
NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. I wish we were spending this much on science now
Yet again Google takes a step to make using a browser worse.
algorithmic recommendation systems are dangerous, how many times do we have to be shown this — it's like if you replaced all the mirrors in the house with carnival mirrors that make you look fat, of course this is going to cause some people to feel worse about themselves than regular mirrors!
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> information cannot harm.

This is so patently false I don't think it's worth continuing this discussion.

There are so many very obvious ways that information, especially false information, can cause demonstrable, material harm that I cannot view this argument as anything other than ideological dogma with no basis in reality.
So how would you characterize that difference, both in terms of strengths and weaknesses? I have a few thoughts but would be curious to hear yours first.
I still don't get how TikTok (and other "feed"-based social media) isn't regulated more strongly.

We don't allow 12 year olds to buy cigarettes because they're harmful and addictive. These apps are no different, they just don't cause obvious physical diseases like lung cancer.

It's clearly designed to entrap users in to addiction, but as a society we're still cool with it and it blows my mind.
This event lead to the Byzantines having a silk monopoly in Europe. It follows that the Venetians didn’t have the means to produce silk. They may have therefore tried to acquire said means. The show apparently depicts that attempt, with inspiration from the story in TFA.
Top two causes of under-18 death in the US are guns and cars.
Yes, tech bros are safe from others wanting them for anything outside of their minds.
Because there is no way of building a cheaper rocket with a less reliability. Take aircraft. Does anyone deliberately build cargo aircraft with less reliability than passenger aircraft? Does anyone build a smaller airliner with less reliability than the big airliners because fewer lives are at risk in the smaller aircraft? No. All aircraft are designed and built to amazingly high standards because, in such as complex high-energy environment, there is no money to be saved by building less-than-perfect machines.
Where are you getting this from? Movies?
A lot of those human lessons learned and failures probably are incorporated in the training data. I wonder if literally telling it to perform an OODA loop in those words might allow it to perform better than otherwise, using reasoning examples from the literature.
jensen is a hero of mine. excited to listen in!

highly recommend his convo with Morris Chang over 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-x7PdnvCyI

as a guy from another small country these two taiwainese american semiconductor titans give me a lot of inspo
I've been building a plugin for ChatGPT to play chess - but there's not many people with access to plugins. So I thought I'd knock together a very simple web interface.

If you have API access then you can paste an API key into the AI move dialog. Everything is done client side (there is no backend) so it's fairly safe.

Alternatively, you can just copy the prompt into a ChatGPT window.

GPT-3.5 is pretty rubbish, GPT-4 can play a reasonable game. The model that is used for plugins seems to be much better (see this video of it in action - https://youtu.be/lXFeq2yUy58).

The code is all open source - it's been knocked together in a couple of evenings - https://github.com/atomic14/gpt-chess.
Sorry, I probably mixed up the description, seemingly he was removed from the advisory board of the institute, where he already was:

>He was removed from the advisory board of the prestigious Roosevelt Institute, which manages the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential library.

And no, if anyone could be removed from the advisory board of a prestigious institute through a single (defamatory) post, all advisory board places would be vacant.
Can you Link to where he says this recommendation ?
I suspect they were told "if we get off the ground, it's a success." Elon's been saying similar things over the last week.
Patronizing whom?
My dream tells me they are ancient aliens exiled to earth and lived at bottom of ocean for millenials.

They are basically stuck on Earth due to lack of a special fuel that allows them to jump start inter-galactic engine so they can only slip out of ocean once for a while and wander in the Sun system.

They are using us as covers as it is difficult to do a remote scan from their galaxy and pinpoint a small colony under sea and surfaced by a sort of primitive Human society. And it is too costly and agianst the rule to send a fleet to do a close by investigation so their enemies either have not found them yet or decided to drop the issue.

To make us better cover they periodically send dreams of wonders, usually scientific or religious information, to gifted humans during night. Most of the scientific "discoveries" throughout the history were injected by them.
> If the Office becomes aware that information essential to its evaluation of registrability “has been omitted entirely from the application or is questionable,” it may take steps to cancel the registration. 44 Separately, a court may disregard a registration in an infringement action pursuant to section 411(b) of the Copyright Act if it concludes that the applicant knowingly provided the Office with inaccurate information, and the accurate information would have resulted in the refusal of the registration.

From https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf
I love that it’s replacing sed, awk, and cut in the same way you’d bring artillery to a knife fight.
That's reasonable and I agree kinda. I think I'm assuming a layman seeing this headline and (unfortunately) mostly not caring one way or the other. At least this version gets them an accurate depiction. I see how it reads differently to readers here though.
How are you under the impression OP that thinks the CPP is liberal??
I'm not the OP, but I read that qualification as meaning "I'm not some right-wing nutter that's paranoid about Red Danger, and I don't believe everything mainstream media tells me".
Most of the US is significantly south of much of continental Europe (not just Scandinavia), as a point of comparison. We (broadly) experience longer days in the winter than Europeans.
They would much rather not have all that infrastructure close to the pad. This is a sub-optimal situation that they, more than anyone else, are acutely aware of. Sadly this is what they could get.
They build the tools and platforms for digital marketing, but Google at least, outsources the actual digital marketing to third parties. If you reach out to their sales team for "enterprise" GMP solutions, you'll be connected with a reseller.
This is fascinating to me, and sad to hear. Have you ever written about the history and starting up of your website from the business side of things, aside from the shutdown? I've thought about starting a similar business and would love to hear more.
No barge, just a touchdown on the water.
> equates to a mid six figure salary here based on what you can afford.

So they can convert it to six figures USD?

> Boeing messed up. FAA not once in it's reports nor any aviation experts blamed the code, Boeing went cheap and removed a redundant device the MCAS system needs during a malfunction.

McDonnell Douglas-Boeing messed up indeed. The 9$/h coders are just one of the many symptoms of a culture that lead to this kind of reckless behavior.
I don’t see how someone could have that many uploads a day without child porn slipping through - especially when child porn is defined as porn of anyone under the age of 18.
> And I've also been wondering if you could construct the opposite, only using the romanic parts of the language. You would probably get really corrupted medival french?

I reckon you'd basically get Interlingua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua), which saw some initial use in scientific communication.
The image hosting part is half the story, "having a community that was predominantly fun" was the other half. But they've gone out of their way to make sure the site's a hellscape shithole without adblocking with every possible action getting gamified. So ironically the only thing that's left of the original pretty great website is the image hosting part. EULA notwithstanding (because as much as people yell, NSFW makes up barely any of the front page content, so clearly the site's own community doesn't care whether it's there or not)
Terrible title. This should have been reported as a major accomplishment... in the title. Many people won't read the article, and without doing so they would never know that this was a win.
Interesting. It seems like this sort of precedent could make ChatGPT's defamation habit[1] expensive for OpenAI.

[1]: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-...
Would have been nice to get one last copy of the site on archive.org before it was shut down. If you still have the content and can bring it online temporarily, it could be grabbed by ArchiveBot:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot
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it makes complete sense if you view the world through the lens of: 1. china is incapable of innovation and invention and 2. they only know how to steal stuff and 3. their manufacturing industry only makes cheap plastic crap.
As long as the organization has and maintain a culture that is aggressively seeking out problems large and small, and proactively fixing aprox. all of them, you will end up with a program with a high rate of operational success.

It's the X-origin vs Slope issue - steeper slope always wins.

The problem is maintaining that aggressive problem-seeking culture after long periods of success