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When AI systems have the ability to interact with and influence the real world, there is indeed a potential for both positive and negative outcomes. The actions performed by an AI in the real world can have significant consequences, and if not properly controlled or regulated, it could lead to unintended harm.

To mitigate the risks, it is crucial to have robust safety measures, ethical guidelines, and oversight mechanisms in place. These measures should ensure that the AI system operates within predefined boundaries and follows strict ethical standards. Transparent and accountable governance is necessary to monitor and regulate the system's behavior, preventing malicious use or unintentional harm https://gbfmapps.com/fmwhatsapp-download/.
Similar problem to Jakarta. It really doesn't make sense to put everything into one big city.
It's exactly like any other work, your plumber doesn't receive royalties whenever you use your bathroom, those costs should be paid upfront.
libcurl and expat (or one of a zillion other XML libraries)?
> people who are into Rust have severe mental issues.

You must be very young and inexperienced to be so unboundedly arrogant. That you don't understand a thing doesn't mean it's invalid.
According to the article, this anti drone system works by targeting the electronics inside the drone with microwave pulses.

Dumb question: why couldn't the electronics be shielded like the door of your kitchen microwave?
Duplicate to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003127
> Exercise has many side effects too, including a risk of injury.

This feels like saying chocking is a side effect of eating vegetables.

Most negative side effects from exercise come in a few camps.

* The exercise of choice comes with a risk of accidents. Accidents happen everywhere, but they happen to skiers more frequently than mall power walkers.

* The exercise of choice is well known to put strain on certain body parts. Usually this is a joint or tendon. Pitchers and arms. Power lifting and knees.

* The exerciser did not prepare well for exercise. Do they have proper equipment? Did they stretch? Did they warm up? Did they drink enough fluid? Are they attempting a goal they aren't ready for? Are they over training? Did they get training to establish proper technique? Are they distracted when they should have been focused?
Steve Jobs also wore jeans and a turtle neck, and offed himself with his diet, twice. Maybe he's not someone to take nods from.
I wonder what the literature on brainstorming is like now. I'd say it's probably a bad idea under time pressure.
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Shaka, when the walls fell?
it works quite well in practice, and unlike pip things don't break every 2 weeks.
What does volume mean in higher dimensions? 2-D has no volume. 3D has a volume. What's volume in 4D and higher?

Edit: Just to further the thought. Do all dimensions have the same unit length? In 3D, the spacial x,y,z dimensions have the same unit length. In 4D like 3D+Time, does the t-dimension have the same unit length as the spacial dimensions? What is 1-unit of t meant vs 1-unit of x? What does it mean to say a sphere in 4D with radius r having the same "distance" from the center in all 4 dimensions? What unit length is r in?
If you lived in a 1000 dimensional space, would you actually be able to figure out the number of dimensions?

You could try counting how many sticks you could place at right angles to each other, but the problem is that you can arrange 1001 vectors so that they're all very nearly at right angles.
Their actual paying customers get the uncensored version, everyone else pays them a pittance to access the neutered version.
Don't you mean a trillion dollars of luck as way too many people on this thread and adjacent bring up?

Considering this website, I find it hilarious how the most common talking point on this post is all "luck", like it's a conspiracy. You'd imagine "risk" would come up even once, but a few hours in, I am the only one bringing it up.
RISC-V based Milk-V board with 64 cores at 2 GHz and 128 GB RAM
Dehydration and kidney damage is a common side effect of Semaglutide, and they regularly test for that if you are on it. Drinking plenty of water is the way to prevent that from happening.
When you wrote "Which parts of the patent were not valid?" I assumed you meant something like "could work as described."

As you've highlighted, you actually meant that the claims were enabled under US patent law, which does not generally require the patented idea to actually work.

I noticed your quoted text uses "it is possible to experimentally obtain". That's an odd way of saying "it is theoretically possible to obtain".

Clearly if the theory is wrong then it can make wrong predictions about feasibility. The patent office isn't tasked to determine if such theories are wrong.

For example, no one has demonstrated that "Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state" (see https://patents.google.com/patent/US6960975B1/en ) actually works. Very few expect that idea to work, and I expect that most who do are ill-informed of the science.

The same applies here.

One deep problem with the entire idea of extracting usable energy from the vacuum energy state is highlighted in this letter to a curious 19 year old, at https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/1277 :

> The point, however, is that this is not the calculation of some energy that’s sitting around waiting to be used. It’s just the calculation of a natural unit in which to measure energy. If it has a physical significance, it may represent the amount of energy that has to be concentrated in a small scale (the Planck distance, about 10^-32 cm) in order to make weird quantum gravitational things happen.

> To get usable energy out of some process, there must be some way for things to fall to a lower energy state than they are now in. That’s possible for many nuclei- hence we can get nuclear power- but such nuclear reactions are known and have little to do with the Planck scale.

> The Planck distance-time scale is the scale on which our current theory of space and time is likely to break down. If there really is some process on that scale that could settle into a lower energy state, that would mean that the current vacuum is unstable. It could somehow start to collapse to the more stable state, which would destroy any sort of physical structure in the current universe. Something like that probably happened at least once in the early universe, ending the strongly inflationary period of the Big Bang.

> These are not processes which I would attempt to ’use’.

The materials you've pointed to assume the vacuum energy state is "energy that’s sitting around waiting to be used", without demonstrating that it's true.

Further, they make no mention of how that energy is transferred to a lower energy state than vacuum. We know of no such thing.

As an analogy, a bird sitting on an high power line - which isn't even insulated - is touching a huge amount of energy. It's not affected because there's no lower energy place for that energy to go. At best it could get power from AC power lines due to the fluctuating fields, but that's far less than the power going through the lines.
Have not had an issue with Rust and Websockets.

I dont want to sound callous but it just sounds like you need to put some effort in to learning it more. Rust is more difficult to understand compared to other languages you might be used to, but it is simple once you understand it.

Of course you could use C, Go, Javascript, [insert other language] but you wouldn't get the same memory safety as you would with Rust and the efficiency without a garbage collector.
"my retina has detached 2x for no apparent reason since then"

I'd say that's a pretty huge deal. Did you report that?
Thanks for the comment!

These 2 other libraries are really great.

For something as important as the choice of a web framework, I realized I really wanted to 100% understand the internals, then I starting working on Swap.

The key things for me are:

- no tool required (just a text editor, no compiler, no bundler/packer, no minification even needed: I just wanted to write JS and that's all).

- be able to re-read the source code in 10 minutes and 100% understand how it works, which is impossible with most frameworks

- even if simple, I wanted that non-trivial features are included (such as browser history, when using previous / forward browser buttons), because I don't want to have to think about this when creating a new web appliation

My first prototypes took a few hundreds of lines of code (for the same result). I spent some good time redesigning it, and finally I was surprised I can cover 80% of my navigation needs (when doing web applications), with only 50 to 100 LoC.

For the rest (features not enhanced by Swap, like form submission), of course, I just write normal JS, but I think I would have done it anyway whatever the framework.

TL;DR: in my lib I just focused on swapping HTML content (parts of the page) when navigating, thus the name "Swap" :) + I wanted the lib to do the boring stuff for me (make sure the browser history still works, etc.)
Are you sure? I ask because the Dutch were wild by the end of the seventeenth century, people like Antoni van Leeuwenhoek achieved 500x magnification with a single lens microscope as an example. If you wonder why I know this, it’s because this was when the first bacteria are believed to have been observed. Leading off to the next part that I’m not so sure of, but the single lens microscope was/is terrible to use, and this lead to the first compound microscopes being build shortly there after. I believe the practical limit of those is 2,500x magnification though I’m not sure when that was made possible, but many of the ones we have in education today range from 400-1000x magnification (mostly down to cost and care of the institution).
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I use pv all the time and didn't know you could use it to watch an existing process. Thanks for the tip!
This is a pretty common error and the reason why in my long distance e-bike pack I spent a lot of time getting the balance wire routing done without any wires crossing.

Even Bosch got this wrong on their pannier mounted battery packs, I've opened up a whole pile of failed Bosch packs to see how they fail as a guide to my own pack design and the most common failure was water ingestion due to bad seals followed by burned out balancing wires that some how got worn out or pinched. This stuff is very critical and I would (1) never buy a pack that some other hobbyist made and (2) never sell the pack that I made to someone else.
Find the right exercise/workout for you and it'll be its own reward.

Shouldn't take more than a bit of caffeine to get you moving at that point.

As to empath mode, you've just described MDMA. But it'd be nice if there were something a little less intense. That you could take weekly without frying your brain & was mild enough for family/work social situations. (And no, alcohol doesn't fit the bill).
fair use :)

thou it suggests to me that you might want to investigate your i/o scheduling arrangements
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Not if every single one of its posts gets linked.
Its impossible to resize images or hash passwords on Cloudflare workers: the CPU time limit is too low.

I don't see how this makes Cloudflare interesting for AI. I suspect the same problems will exist.

This isn't so different than running onnx in a worker without constellation, and using KV directly?

The negative is it's such a closed ecosystem.
Sentry is great but I’ve noticed that it significantly increases the request response time which makes it unusable for high traffic web apps. This happens with both the hosted and self-hosted instances. I’m not sure if it’s due to bad configuration or PHP. I’ll give this a try and see…
Was that a Minecraft reference?
uh that does not sound like a feature ;)
Umami, self-hosted, but they also have a cloud version with a free tier if you prefer that.

https://github.com/umami-software/umami
Out of curiosity I just checked Detroit, MI, median income of 20k usd a year. Still about the same at $10.49. This is almost bewildering how the price is pegged to about $10.75 the world over, no matter the price of labor or rent or beef or getting it to the world over. Margins must be all over the place.
sure. see my other comment regarding SQM/QOS. this can be fixed
you have my sympathies
Same thing with hetzner and I don't have to worry about an AWS account with my payment info on it.

I've seen too many cloud provider horror stories.
I switch between keyboard layouts all the time, depending on which input language I need to use.
I simply cycle between the langugaes I write in(Swedish, German and English) by pressing alt and caps lock.

I accept that U.S. English is the computer lingua franca.
True, but the price vs the amount of effect varies hugely.

Some drugs are a bargain. Caffeine. E-nicotine. Some are hellishly expensive. Solvents will destroy your health without even giving much in the way of a high.
If you see some of the videos that often end up on reddit it is absurd how many cars end up stalled on the tracks in front of an active crossing in Florida. I wouldn't blame bright line really, the odds of having a car break down right on a rail crossing are so astonishingly small that at least a few of these incidents are probably outright fraud. People also sometimes ignore the gates and drive around thinking they can beat the train. Maybe they are used to a miles long freight train going a few mph where that idiotic move hasn't burned them yet.

Either way, in socal the metrolink trains operate at grade going pretty fast up to 80mph and you don't see so many accidents. I'd blame some other factor over the fact the train runs on the surface behind a gate.
That only goes for prismatic cells (boxes rather than cylinders). The reason is that they tend to swell up while charging if you don't compress them so manufacturers will specify a clamping force required for the cells to keep their shape. If they change shape in such a way that you can observe it then your cells are toast so better stick to that mfg indicated compression. There are a number of articles out there that show how to do this the right way and also some that get it hilariously wrong. The direction to compress the cells in is in such a way that the electrodes remain under compression perpendicular to their surface. So compressing from the top and compressing from the front will do absolutely nothing.
Goes to website.

Clicks through to read the docs/spec that tell you what this thing actually is.

Hits a registration page.

Quits back to HN.
I switched to Colemak for 6 years and then back quite some time ago (something like 2009-2015). Colemak was certainly more comfortable as the author noted but I found enough friction that I switched back:

* Shared machines are hard to avoid when working on hardware like I was.

* There’s a lot of lost value in not being able to just sit down at someone else’s machine and navigate/code/etc. The reverse is also true of not easily having other people use your machine.

* If you game, this can be really hard. Some games attempt to do the right thing (e.g. WASD => WARS) but auxiliary things like “I” for inventory are less clear. Do you keep I to have the mnemonic or keep the physical spot? Caps lock to backspace can also mess with games that have chosen, for god knows what reason, to make caps lock a hot key. I spent a ton of time editing undocumented keymap files, and that’s not how I want to spend my leisure time.

* Not having caps lock means that if you somehow get caps lock turned on, it’s a pain to get it turned back off. This did happen to me multiple times - I used AHK for the remap and it’ll occasionally fail, usually due to external factors like an aborted system shutdown.

* You have to touch type. Getting physical Colemak keyboard for all cases (especially laptops) just isn’t feasible. This meant no more one handed typing or searching for hot keys when gaming (because I’m off the home row and I couldn’t build one handed muscle memory without a physical colemak keyboard).

* Lots of custom shortcuts are needed. It’s great that core copy/cut/paste/undo are kept in the same spots, but if you become power user of something like photoshop, you have to either remap all the shortcuts (again losing many mnemonics) or lose ergonomics as related keys spread out to odd spots when they should be clustered.

* You never really get rid of QWERTY muscle memory (at least 6 years on it with lots of focused practice, I didn’t). My overall amount of typos went way up compared to QWERTY. Also, and this is what finally made me switch back, the passwords I knew by muscle memory turned out to be different than what I thought I was typing. I had a password I could type, but didn’t know it (I swapped a fewer characters without realizing it). When I had to input this on a phone, I realized I couldn’t do that without first typing it on a physical keyboard.

* Virtual keyboards, such as on game consoles, are usually QWERTY (or alphabetical, yuck) and being able to touch type QWERTY does speed up their use.

In the end I accepted that we live in a QWERTY world and we’re too far down the rabbit hole to change. I find giving up some efficiency a worthwhile tradeoff for a drastic reduction in edge cases and overall fiddliness.
Having a better language helps. Every language has some pain points that are responsible for more than their fair share of miscommunications. Just to use English as an example, although this is true of most natural languages, the overuse of the copula "is/are" is a consistent source of mistakes whether accidental or purposeful. So much so that computer programmers learning object oriented programming have to be taught the difference between "is-a" vs "has-a" relationships.

If you say "My coworker Taro is a samurai", what does that mean? Did he dress up as a samurai for the office costume party? Does he study older forms of Japanese martial arts? Was he descended from a noble family from the Japanese feudal era and have claim to an actual samurai title?

There are controlled dialects of English, like E-Prime, which forbid the use of the copula "to be" as ungrammatical, or at least heavily restrict it. You can say your coworker "dressed as a samurai", "trains in the arts of a samurai", or "traces ancestral lineage from a samurai clan", but you can't say he "is a samurai" in E-Prime.

Would this make communication more clear with fewer mistakes? I don't think this has been adequately studied enough to say for certain. But at least in certain domains like military speech and air traffic control we have examples of such enforced language simplification resulting in measurable decreases in miscommunications. I'm very curious to see if we can generalize those results to a full, general-purpose dialect or entirely new language.
Oh my, is retinal detachment a known potential side effect of the drug? Or is that a complication of diabetic retinopathy or some other condition that you already had? This sounds frightening. Hope they were able to reattach it, and hope you're doing alright.
Ambiguity is an intrinsic quality of language. The first words that an infant learns are exclusively learned through ostensive definitions (defining by pointing). This implies that the meaning of those words is fundamentally different to each of us, as it's founded on our phenomenological experience and not through the dictionary.
Further words are learned to combine previous definitions and more ostensive definition, so ambiguity is carried on.

Lojban does not eliminate the ambiguity of the meaning of the words, but the ambiguity of its syntactical structure.

To me, the ambiguity of language, and the impracticality to change the meaning of words are the fundamental issues preventing humans to enhance the innate cognitive abilities, and the root cause of most human conflicts around communication.

Any profession and culture has its own jargon, this enables them to express the particular quality of their reality with much more accuracy than common language.

So, instead of trying to build a shared language, what we can do is to create a personal Language for each of us. Not for the purpose of communication, but for the purpose of improving our reasoning and internal model of the world, so we can describe and make sense of our particular reality with much more accuracy.

I've been dedicated to building "Interplanetary mind-map", a tool that supports making your language by making your meaning more explicit. [0]

At the same time, I've been using a prototype of it, to build my personal Language. You can browse into each word and see my particular understanding of it. [1]

[0] - https://github.com/interplanetarymindmap/docs

[1] - https://xavivives.com/#?expr=[%22i12D3KooWBSEYV1cK821KKdfVTH...
Yeah, I'm conflicted about Ars. They present themselves as firmly on the side of user-friendliness and privacy, but they're not above scummy ad/tracker practices, autoplaying videos, and obnoxious popups. They also charge you to delete your account.

I've pretty much stopped reading them because I was losing respect for the people who ran the site.
Interesting. Modern optical microscopes, even cheap ones, do 1000x, though I seem to remember, from playing with a cheapish one, that it was very hard to get a worthwhile image at 1000x. Amazon.co.uk has a microscope for £54.59 that does "1600X" ... "for Kids"! The one I played with wasn't that cheap!

According to random online articles, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) achieved 275x and a few of his instruments have survived until today, in museums, I presume.
I love that a third party is stepping up here, but it's incomprehensible to me that Google doesn't do this themselves. They're a search company, and they own YouTube. The YouTube data — including the subtitle files — is already sitting there on their servers; they don't have to scrape it, they just have to index it. What are they even doing?

Fun thing to try: do a Google search with "site:youtube.com" in it. You get basically nothing, no matter what keywords you use. It seems that Google actually entirely ignores/excludes YouTube from their regular HTML indexing, and instead only relies on the YouTube backend to actively push content into (a special, separate part of) the search index. Which gets you "results from YouTube" and "video search" — but doesn't get you the ability to search youtube videos pages qua web pages. (Consider: you can find a post in a Reddit comment thread on Google. Can you find a post in a YouTube video comments section on Google?)

Heck, when I first heard about YouTube's autogenerated captions, my first thought was "oh, so this is Google building deep indexing of video through audio transcription, because they can't trust externally-provided subtitles, right?" But it's been 10 years, and I couldn't have been more wrong.
Thanks for your detailed comment, the in-depth reading, and for this insightful advice. I'm going to think about all these points!
The money faucet is search ads. If you aren’t an active user you aren’t clicking on search ads.
Yes, you could, because any natural language can be used to teach mathematics. Lojban is, like any notation, a convenience for people who understand the concepts, but the concepts can be expressed in a natural language just as precisely, albeit less concisely.

In fact, as Florian Cajori stated in his book "A History of Mathematical Notations", the rise of mathematical notation was opposed by people who preferred the older, natural language style of doing mathematics, what Cajori termed the "struggle between symbolists and rhetoricians."

So, yes, logic is mathematics, and humans did mathematics in natural language for a very long time before we invented the conlang of mathematical notation. Moving more of the ideas into what is, ultimately, a more expressive notation is not a fundamental shift.
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