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That's crazy. Tell me more about this. What happened What do you wish you'd known ahead of time? How would you solve this?
Methane rocket exhaust is steam and CO2. Where did the "pollution" come from?

Are you suggesting they buried polluted dirt in the launch pad to distribute later?

It's just like construction dust. It's unpleasant and inconsiderate but it's not highly toxic or a pollutant.
I literally got back from a doctor today after having back pain and he prescribed me to do stretching exercises. These will come in handy, right on time. Thanks!
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How much did you founders profit from Imgur? never saw a figure anywhere.
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This is not meant in a mean way, but ChatGPT will give you super easy to understand answers for those questions:

What is BPA for in plastic?

What are the alternatives to BPA in plastic?

The answers are too long to post.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
The technical report has before and after comparisons. It's a bit worse on some tests. and they pretty explicitly mention the issue of calibration (how well confidence on a problem results in the ability or accuracy solving that problem).

Hallucinations are a different matter.
I can see the utility but most country road speed limits are gonna be 50 mph+. I wouldn’t want to drive it there. Dirt roads or on your land, sure.

Regardless, they look pretty cool. A cheaper option, but lower quality, might be some small trucks from China.

It will also be interesting to see how Fords Maverick catches on. May not quite fill this niche but seems like a good option overall.
If you want to use asterisks literally on HN, you need to escape them.
I don’t know if those little tires can handle muddy, unpaved country roads like a tractor can.
I’ve looked into one of these and they’re completely illegal in my state, no way to register them without gaming different dmv stations and getting a clueless dmv rep who doesn’t know what they’re looking at, to register it. This is Oregon. Really unfortunate situation as these fit a lot of use cases that would previously require something as big as a gas guzzling Ford F150 otherwise.
Bark's readme points out that to access the "larger model" you'd have to email them.

I guess, the "open" part of it is mostly for marketing.
Please buy a minivan if this is your situation.
To the extent that publications like The Atlantic have declined, I think it's because clickbait works, or at least it seems to if you're dependent on the online ads business model, so legacy publications have chosen to become more like Buzzfeed.
But can your dog (translator) say "I love you?" In a doggy-voice? Replika proves people will pay for this and convince themselves it's real, because they want it to be.

Bark-GPT's VC pitch: "Replika for real dogs"
Ilya _was_ at Google Brain, so something doesn’t add up there. I believe people wanted to launch things, but higher management stopped it.

I was next to the team that created Allo’s chat bot, but they said that they had to take out most cool stuff because legal didn’t allow it to launch, so they had to dumb it down totally.

I believe the main problem was all the ethics/safety teams that just hired a lot of non-programmers, while OpenAI management treated safety as an engineering problem that has to be solved with a technical solution.
I always thought that a "growth rate" definition of sizes of infinity makes more sense than Hume's principle. Then the odd numbers approach infinity half as fast as the natural numbers. But that only works for ordered quantities.
sure, when I was growing up my mom drove myself and my four siblings around in a Suburban. I understand the baseline desire to signal virtue with regards to large motor vehicles, but even a brief glance at the photo in the article should be enough for any sane person to see that driving more than a single child around in such a vehicle is blatantly untenable.

downvoters might also be surprised at how safe large motor vehicles are for transporting children, especially in areas with spontaneous, often-unavoidable wildlife crossing. try hitting a mule deer crossing the road in the dark in one of those little trucks and see how many kids riding (on the flatbed??) survive.
I have an Organizational account. I’m not sure where they’re getting that from.

UPDATE: This post from 2022 is MS's announcement of GA for TOTP and specifically mentions that you can use any TOTP app: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure...

and the official docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/aut...

I see the article says you need Azure AD P1 or P2, so I guess if you have a non-MSA organizational account in an AAD without P1/P2 then you'll be stuck with MS Authenticator - so that might explain that.
Can someone briefly explain how a model for a specific language is made for this tool?
Considering one of the possible outcomes was for the whole thing to blow up on launch pad, the crater and debris storm were nothing.
It's only free trade so long as all parties play by the same rulebook.
Diagnosing cancer by profiling the immune system
The local Mahindra dealer also seems to be doing a brisk business with their Roxors - they're almost literally a 1950s Jeep with a modern diesel engine in them. It's the same market niche - small, off highway use, utility vehicles.

And at least out here, you're allowed to run around on the roads at least some with them to get between fields.
15 min is too much for me to stay motivated, especially with all the other things I have to deal with, but I have been using that 5min routine in the morning to wake up my body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6LwAaB3_E

It worked well. I have done it for the past 6 months.
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> In that interim time, they cancelled the project they hired me to work on.

That's a very quick re-prioritization! How'd that make you feel?
Whats the AMC playbook?
I don't think this really iimplicates the death penalty specifically. Those 4% would still spend their lives in prison, and prison is a terrible place to be.

I think the argument he's making is a good one, specifically for changing the way things are done with regard to prosecutions. Punishing innocent people is unjust, regardless what the punishment is.

First and foremost, I think prosecutors who can be definitively proven to have lied or withheld evidence to get a conviction should be handed the same sentence they attempted to get in the prosecution. Same goes for police, investigators and non-coerced witnesses. This would eliminate a good degree of the perverse incentive in the system, death penalty or no.

Beyond that, I think we have too much faith in forensics and expert witnesses.

I believe in the death penalty, and generally speaking corporal punishment. But I don't believe in using the death penalty as punishment, only as a way to remove otherwise uncorrectable violent people from society. So I'd support rules that only allow it on a second or later offense. But I do believe it should apply potentially to all haenous violent crimes, including rape, unlawful detention, armed robbery and the like, given repeated violations by the same individual. I also happen to believe that prison is barbaric and should be abolished.
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I was curious what AI generated news would look like. The Synthetic Standard finds real news and then generatively writes articles as well as images. One of my favorite things so far has been the images: often times they are hilarious depictions similar to a political cartoon.
And now, the restaurant is on fire, while the dumpster is fine...
https://archive.md/iBBwX
When it says "sponsored" in bold text, prominently displayed right at the top of the result, you know it's an ad.

Before Google, search engines didn't do this. Paid results were indistinguishable from organic results.

Here's an example --> https://imgur.com/a/bSJTBeD

If you have a counter-example, please share!
The days of Byte Magazine where people and esp venture capitalists funded and the market had space for all sorts of new ideas like the Amiga.

My favourite one was a 3 chip Object Oriented system called Objekt,Numerik and something else by Hifi manufacturer Linn - the owner at the time loved the Vaxen running his factory and funded a new architecture.

The fixation with the letter "k" I found rather intriguing.
I don't usually complete these little "fun internet" experiments but I thoroughly enjoyed this journey from start to end, and learned a bit on the way. My mind was blown a few times checking on the scrollbar thinking it's always over only to see we've barely just begun. Excellent.
This seems like one of those things that I don't want to google.
> especially if you’re not in a place with strong regulations like the EU.

Why is this? America is a first world country... but why we don't have strong regulations?
> This is AGI, now we are nit-picking. It's here.

Hahaha, if you want nit-picking, all the language tasks chatGPT is good at are strictly human tasks. Not general tasks. Human tasks are all related to keeping humans alive and making more of us, they don't span the whole spectrum of possible tasks where intelligence could exist.

Of course inside language tasks it is as general as can be, yet still needs to be placed inside a more complex system with tools to improve accuracy, LLM alone is like brain alone - not that great at everything.
I'd say that point was a bit less than a decade ago - Aug 10, 2015.
I coasted for a year then switched. This was in the Great Recession, I didn’t want to have a short gap on my resume. But in retrospect it probably would have been fine.
Somebody got a bad performance review
and then everyone lost interest in NASA moon missions and we scrapped the program early. A little bit of hype goes a long way.
Serious question, but why is bigger better? Is there a pending need to launch something huge in one go?
The argument put forward in the book is that the extreme polarisation is in fact quite new, and that it has lead to a situation where extreme, anti-liberal ideologies, has been given more room to act within their respective communities and been given power to punish non-believers into submission and suppress free speech. Creating a form of vicious spiral.

A quote from the page I was just reading:

> “When Speech First brought a lawsuit against Michigan, alleging that their bias response teams were unconstitutional and “flagrantly violate the First Amendment,” the court agreed, ruling against the school. As of 2022, 456 U.S. colleges⬥ have bias response teams (almost double the 2017 total of 232),49 and very few have been subject to investigations like the one at Michigan.”

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Arianne 6 is sorely needed and is a decade behind right now. Not sure it deserves cutting it slack… though I’ll cheer when it gets off the pad as I cheered when the starship did.
For people who don't know, this phrase is intended as a joke. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-t...
Reddit user discovers World Chess Championship player's Lichess prep accounts
As a potential home buyer right now, it's less about prices drop but more about homes not going over asking. When you hit this situation you have to cover the difference. In some cases this could be $30-50k which depending on your downpayment could greatly reduce your buying power. During the pandemic with low interest rates would yield anywhere from 10-20 over asking offers on a home. Now days homes are generally selling close to asking and occasionally you can even get a home under. Yes the supply is lower but people will always ned to sell and it's nice having the buyer pool be smaller and less competitive.
I kinda want to take a picture of the parking lot at a local (Salt Lake County, UT) Costco. It's almost exclusively "light truck"-classified pickups and similarly sized SUVs. I'm sure a similar image has already been captured for posterity but damn if it wouldn't be useful for pointing to a problem.
Hi, I live in the boonies, and own one of these minitrucks.

a) They do 60mph ok if you have a four-speed one. Five-speed ones will do 70 just fine.

b) country roads are generally 45 in most states.

c) chinese minitrucks have a hell of a lot less support for about the same price.

d) Ford mavericks are DOA here. If you want a work van you buy a work van.
I mean if you squint... everyone watched it, because of the location and general wtf-ery. Could it have been a clever bit of PR psychological hackery?

Nah.

But, like, maybe.
I get it - they are in a tough situation but... This is not the best way to go about it.

First time seeing the site - it's hard to navigate, small fonts that are hard to read and tons of text all squished together. Then when I read, what is essentially a sales pitch and I still don't know what they DO.

Like - you tease "but just look at what you get in return…" but don't actually answer what you are - or how you are different from a million other publications.

Sure, you don't have a ping pong table, but can you tell me why I should pick you over say the NYTimes Music section? Or some other indie music magazine?

This sounds like I am crapping all over them, and I guess I am a bit, but I just get frustrated when people can't be clear about a differentiator. Tell me WHY I should pick you over everyone else, THEN tell me pricing and perks.
Plus the combinations.
Part of why resurrecting ancient organisms (think Jurassic Park) is going to be difficult. They won't want to thrive today. Wrong gut biome; wrong food; wrong air! They'll likely be sickly or die soon after birth.
> prior to the whole Xi/nationalist thing, weren't a lot of chip engineers going back and forth, employment-wise, between TSMC, SMIC, and other mainland companies

Yes. A free-trade agreement was being negotiated [1]. And the fraction of Taiwanese who identify has both Taiwanese and Chinese has quartered since Xi came to power [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-china/taiwan-china-ai...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_i...
I completely agree. I was involved as a tech executive at a large medical center trying to get collaborative work with both Google per se, and DeepMind, to a usable or product stage, and it was essentially impossible. DeepMind in particular was more interested in pushing the research envelope, and getting more papers in Nature, than in building products.

I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which this is by design, from the very top of Google. Different Google and other Alphabet companies' executives more than once told me they just weren't interested in products that didn't have an obvious path to more than 1 billion users. The companies don't have a clue how to make money retail. If they can't print money with an idea, they don't have the tools and skills to bring it to market.
It wasn't a catastrophic failure, it was self destructed.
"There are a lot of mentally unwell people in the LC crowd"

Yep. And they ruin it for everyone to the point that the image now exists that LC is "just an excuse for white middle-aged women to not have to work".

Part of a larger problem of obsessive self-diagnosis of mental illness and to wear any imagined outcomes with great pride, as if its some badge or privilege.
I've seen a few of these in Maine in driveways and yards/fields, but only recently have I seen a couple on the road. I was surprised to see them. I believe JDM vans cannot be registered here but perhaps that's changed recently.

If made illegal to drive on the roads it's not clear why these would be preferable to side-by-sides, other than novelty or for folks that really like to wrench.
Not enough, but at least there is a start.
I have a (malfunctioning) beep but it doesn't work on mobile right now, I have to look into it. If you tried on desktop and it didn't work for you could you share what browser you used?
They also had a big unionization effort in 2019 and new contract negotiations in 2021. An honest effort, but it led to financially limiting conditions for a company that was increasingly lacking revenue.

https://fortune.com/2019/02/13/buzzfeed-union-layoffs/

https://www.nyguild.org/front-page-details/buzzfeed-news-uni...
An arts and culture publication, with a focus on music. I've discovered far more interesting new music through The Quietus than Spotify's algorithm. Well worth a subscription.
The long travel side-by-sides, on the other hand, are pretty incredible offroad.
Sometimes companies allow people to try a role/team for a handful of weeks before committing. Would that have helped?
I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with me, so I’ll expand on the previous post: most commercial flights cruise at altitudes where it’s not allowed to fly without autopilot. Not for honing the pilots’ skills, not because of a malfunction.

There are parts of the flight where hand flying is allowed, but those are the parts closer to the ground (or on very short hops where the cruise altitude is significantly lower than usual).
I wonder what will happen to isomorphic labs which Demis is also leading
TIL clang optimizes sanitizer code away. the team figured how do configure clang not to do this and also identified a number of bugs previously hidden in various foss projects.

are you the same mttd as the reddit post? I found that comment there very useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/12t5z2u/comment/jh106g...
Look at that!
I was speaking specifically of people getting shot for something like knocking on the door of the wrong house. That's a tiny minority of gun-related deaths and not something anyone really needs to worry about any more than they worry about getting in their car or crossing the street every day.
We've been importing them to Louisiana for 20+ years now. Although for the longest time they were only legal to drive like a farm truck (up to 40 miles from the farm) and only on 55mph or less roads. They also had limiters installed so they couldn't go over 55mph, not that its hard to remove the tiny flap of metal they installed to keep the throttle from opening fully.

There is one farmer we used to call the used kei truck salesman because at any given time he has 10-20 of these in his yard for sale fresh off the import boat.
Structs default to public inheritance. I don’t think the usage of struct here makes sense though, since there’s an invariant to uphold between the index and the ”std::vector<T> array” (sic).
The misuse mitigation is 3 assert statements in one file. Its pretty easy to comment out.
On one of my high seas sites there is an archive team which uses the API to find "at risk" torrents (<3 seeds). People dedicate X TB and have a script that hits the API, finds some at risk torrents then grabs them to seed and repeats till it fills the space alotted to archiving purposes.

Seems like something the IA could implement with some help.
The evolution of SpaceX's Starship (with explosions)
Seemed worth pointing out.

See also, the explosions from the Falcon 9 landing days ("How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster
"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
Interesting. What happened in the first handful of weeks that made you realize joining was a mistake?
In today's age of multimillion dollar seed rounds, I don't think there's much difference between a buzzy startup and a corporate R&D department
I don't think anyone would argue it would have been better had they known better and done things right the first.

The question is how you transition from the state of not knowing to knowing.

If you have poor processes and a lack of knoledge, how do you get better?

In this specific instance, the root cause analysis and remediation are vastly more complicated that presented in this thread. It is not like SpaceX wasnt doing testing on incoming materials at all or ignorant of the concept.
Can you expand on what you mean by DOA in this context?
All Amiga can read/write arbitrary DD and HD floppy formats, as the "controller" is actually pretty dumb, reading and writing whole tracks in magnetic flux format.

The CPU (with help from Agnus's blitter in some versions of trackdisk.device) would encode/decode blocks into sectors into tracks, including MFM encoding.

But the floppy drive they bundled was DD, and to get HD you needed an HD floppy drive capable of spinning at half speed. There's few models with that feature. A4000 bundled one such drive.

The relevant chip (PAULA, which also was the interrupt controller and handled audio and serial port besides floppy) was sadly never upgraded throughout the history of the Amiga.
You do see new minitrucks in certain non-road settings in the US, but yeah, they aren't street legal. Some folks import them for use as UTVs: https://usminitrucksales.com

It's the same somewhat bizarre logic that makes it fine to register say, a 1969 VW Beetle in the US, but not a 2004 Mexican Beetle that's no less clean or safe. The older stuff gets grandfathered in because at that age there's hardly anyone willing to bother. But if new minitrucks were road legal, they'd be everywhere, and there might be an epidemic of minitruck highway deaths, etc.
My author friend had to go to court to get paid royalties for audio-book rights, which she had not sold. When Kindle(?) would read any book, it became problematic.

Nobody to blame here; existing contracts just didn't know what innovations were coming. And business depends upon contracts, like it or not.
Crazy Decision, but that's the way the world is turning. This is another reason I'm coming to believe I am eventually going to be shafted badly by being in the kindle ecosphere.

I have been a user since 2010 with no issues for the first ten years. Then came the recent update the middle of last year whereby I can no longer lend my books out to my friend, this was a big blow as we used to exchange books we liked.

Recently I have also noticed that the device seems to want to turn on Wi-Fi for me to open books I have downloaded already onto the device which also has sufficient memory to store them, this seems more to be the ones I haven't read for a few months. The final nail in the coffin came a few weeks ago when I wanted to re-read a book I had read and it asked me to purchase it, thinking I must have read it on kindle unlimited which I had subscribed to and cancelled a few years earlier I pressed buy now, after reading it I looked back through my purchase history and found the same book I had bought five years before. Not even sure who to call on this one but prior to this if I owned the book already it just came up with the read-now button not the buy-now!

I am almost certain that sometime in the future if the kindle doesn't phone home after a period the books on it will disappear.

I managed to get some books off it to epub format, but the most recent updates have somehow stopped the program that did that from working.

Bottom line is I love my kindle, but I am only getting epub books, keeping them on the PC and emailing them to the device.