skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stellar lifecycle models are based on a combination of theoretical physics, experimental physics results that set bounds on (in a way) the theoretical predictions, and mathematical modeling - all of which is also validated through observational physics of stars that are, actually, at the red giant stage, and sampling stars at the intermediary stages - based on actual observations.

Armed with all of this data, and working on an assumption that current ‘laws’ of physics will continue to apply in the future, scientists can make reasonably confident predictions.

Similar approach, though admittedly with far less mathematical modeling, is also the case in biology.
Even textbooks and scientific resources have to assume, at some point, that we start with a framework of axioms.

But most science textbooks also first introduce the idea of models, hypothesis and the notion that a ‘law’, is only as good as the most recent experiment that supports it - and that the scientific method requires us to discard or amend the ‘law’ if new evidence contradicts its predictions. To keep repeating this foundational idea every step of the way seems tedious - it’s reasonable to treat gravity on earth as a fact in the face of overwhelming observational evidence, for instance.

I don’t see how any of this reflects hubris and unwillingness to admit what we don’t know.

For instance, as an (ex-)biologist, I completely agree we do not have a good model for consciousness; or that we simply don’t have a solid functional model of a cell that allows us to model and predict its behaviour at detail and with all its complexity - we are still, in fact, discovering layers of complexity and nuance. But there are some things we do understand well.

Same in physics - the search for a Grand Unifiying Theory continues. ‘Dark matter’, as I understand it, is an acknowledged proxy for many things we don’t yet understand.

So..not sure I agree with your position :)
What was the question, again?
The only way would be to let the thing run and say, pipe the output to grep looking for your password or something else you're looking for. SIMD instructions are used very often for parsing text so I wouldn't be surprised if sensitive passwords eventually get loaded into an YMM register and the exploit just so happened to dump that.
> That's the reality that drove the formation of these agencies.

I said federal agencies are inefficient. You argued they were created for a reason. This isn't exactly an argument.
What makes it the best language for AI and ML? I've never heard that take so just curious your thoughts. It's nice that legacy code still runs but that's usually not people's concern in ML.
Many EU countries still allow for individuals/small companies to choose to use simpler book keeping, without going through all that bureaucracy. And realistically this types of tools are probably targeting that population...
>It is entirely possible that YOU can do that. But I have worked in school technical support departments (once long ago, I led one) and I can assure you that in most cases THEY are not capable of installing a Linux distro on their Chromebooks.

Lets say they need to buy a new computer for $400, for 1,000 students. Can you spend less than $400,000 to figure this out?

Lets expand it to a school district, can you spend less than $4,000,000 to figure this out?

Feel free to expand this to a national level.
The relevant provisions of the NDAA haven't!
If you’ve already come to the conclusion you want, why bother asking questions about it?
Can you use breakpoints with your setup? In-browser or in-IDE?
It’s always projection with that sort. They assume that, if their opinions are formed based on their preferred media lionizing Musk, anyone who dislikes him must be brainwashed by the “wrong” media.
I think the answer is simpler. To rank well on Google you need to integrate with Google (search console, analytics and similar). I guess SO is not giving all their data to Google, so they cannot "optimize" for the site in the way that content farms are willing to.
WormGPT: What to know about ChatGPT's malicious cousin
Is the idea that democracy always benefits society just mathematics? [video]
Sure, but the most common way to access Usenet/NNTP servers was through graphical GUI software or "TUI" for those that preferred terminals. Most people didn't write NNTP commands directly, although I did that because I wanted to learn the protocols (same with POP/SMTP/HTTP that are surprisingly easy to get started with)

NNTP worked great with dialup. You could connect and download all the new content since the last time you were online and catch-up offline without blocking the phone line. The clients were designed to work both in both online and offline mode
I maintain that banning the sharing of prime numbers is outside of the powers of a legitimate government, regardless.
This is starting to sound like Java...
Additionally there are some theories that rudimentary cell like structures formed in clays, which could protect initial unstable molecules. Then it turned out that adding a biofilm improved the resilience of the barrier.

Cell wall is a really amazing thing.
In the linked paper they demonstrate that adding gaussian noise can obfuscate the original text. Retrieval performance is hurt by 2% and reconstruction performance is hurt by 87%. So that seems like a favorable tradeoff.
> Why does the StopTheMadness extension want to disable input field max length? That’s a very useful feature for developers to give instant feedback to the users.

I'm the developer of StopTheMadness, and it doesn't disable input field max length. Rather, it warns you when you paste something longer than the max length; otherwise, without the warning, your paste gets silently truncated, and you wouldn't know it.
Until a synthetic agent will be here we can only guess. The current best guesses seem to have to do with the free energy principle, active inference, Markov blankets [1]. It might be just that simple: it's what happens when some proton gradient reduces ferredoxin [2]. Also related [3].

[1] On-going series of lectures, "Physics as Information Processing" - Chris Fields

Lecture 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOrRw4EhTo

Lecture 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWIqpxWRM4

Lecture 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZp_XNYijQ

[2] "How does chemistry come alive?" - Nick Lane, Alkaline hydrothermal vents at 18:44, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmvS7tgvy6U TL;DW at 52:00 "How does chemistry come alive? It happens when a focused, sustained environmental disequilibrium of H2, CO2, and pH across a porous structure that lowers kinetic barriers to reaction continuously forms organics that bind and self-organize into protocells with protometabolism generating catalytic nucleotides which promote protocell growth through positive feedbacks, favouring physical interactions with amino acids, a nascent genetic code where RNA sequences are selected if they promote protocell growth so genetic information has meaning from the beginning"

[3] "Origins of the RNA-Protein World – Lost in Translation?" - John Sutherland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjIDStlZg8
Carbon tax and talk.

The carbon tax has had an incredibly negative impact on the members of my extended family whom are disabled or retired. It's decreased their nutritional intake, decreased their physical activity, and has exacerbated problems as a result. The "refund" of $150 for a year where the cost of groceries has gone up by that much per month for many small families, is not enough. These costs are not entirely from covid related inflation either. The worst offenders (greens) have seen the largest increases. Something like a head of romaine going from a commonly found $0.99 purchase to a purchase of $6.99. 90% of lettuce consumed in Canada is made using carbon in greenhouses.

The tax of that carbon is removed by Ontario(which has its own carbpn tax) but the new Federal tax is not, nor are the former Federal taxes.

Then there is the article here that offers a bunch of problems with no fix in sight. Do the same thing, they say.
I was using Github Copilot, however I just ended my subscription because I wasn't using it enough despite being elbow deep in code every day. Most of the time the integrations that I use (JetBrains Rider and VS Code) wouldn't function correctly or I'd constantly be logged out. When the integrations _were_ working, the suggestions would be decent but occasionally when doing something like converting jquery to vanilla javascript I'd end up spending more time debugging the result of the suggestion than if I had just done the conversion myself.

Otherwise, I use ChatGPT to help me write tickets/user stories for work as well as for generating test cases for my QA engineers to follow.
The comment I'm replying to is about governments mandating weakened cryptography as a form of export control, which is the entire reason this vulnerability exists within TETRA.
They did shift the goalposts, but I do wonder what browser you'd recommend (and I won't make a bad faith assumption that its chrome like they did). Brave?
But if that was your goal, why not simply role Twitter into the X app shell? Why destroy the brand?
Moving freight for long distances is a lot more efficient than moving people for long distances.
> Automatic testing will still work because a developer isn't going to add restrictions to their own tests from their site. Unless they are testing if a captcha gets shown from an unsafe environment.

Websites aren't the only party that might want automated tests.

> Archives, search engines, and spiders should already be respecting robots.txt. Site owners can already block those things if they don't want their site crawled.

robots.txt is not law. Archives, search engines, and spiders SHOULD ignore it in cases where they deem it the more moral action. After all, all of these are supposed to snapshot the web that humans see.
Yeah? If it is a variation on a recipe I know?
I helped run some large gaming sites and one pattern common to them is DDoS when they have a chat or comment system. Players get each other frustrated, angry and spun up. They can't take it out on the other player directly or physically so they DDoS the site to prevent others from enjoying it and/or to share their frustration.

An example of where this does not happen as much as GTA. Their platform makes it trivial to extensively dox other players so they can DDoS each others internet connections directly, boot them out of games, announce their home address to all the players and so much more. There are blogs and Youtube videos that go into much greater detail on this if anyone was interested.
Can confirm.

And if you find a result that got included despite not being an exact match you can report it and see it get fixed in a few days.
Additionally a lot of energy has been buffered in the rock itself as heat and not quite simple minerals. Underwater heat vents are solid candidates for abiogenesis.
Do you use Private browsing and then refresh the page? That box appears because private browsing protections are much stricter than regular browsing and can break websites.
> humanism (essentially, "be excellent to each other")

That's definitely not what humanism means.

No I don't think this conversation will lead anywhere. Goodbye.
This feels absolutely dystopian. I hate how things like this are almost guaranteed to be ubiquitous and how it will encode corporatespeak into the fabric of how even small companies make decisions.

Ultimately though, unless I can run it on my own machine, it is not truly private.
The crossbow also has disadvantages. There is a reason firearms were adopted.
What does your website do that someone else would want to copy?
If anyone from the Safari team is reading this: please, please document this stuff at a technical level.

As a web engineer I need to know the full details of how this works at the browser API level - the end-user targeted terminology really doesn't help me.

I want to understand things like how I can implement SSO across two different domains.
Horse numbers peaked around 1915. Model T released 1908.

Still plenty around until at least 1930.

http://www.americanequestrian.com/pdf/US-Equine-Demographics...
Do you have a suggestion for a Firefox extension to do that?
> moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever.

Related: I've often been looking how to do X, find an SO question asking that, but the answerers there refused to answer until the person explained why they wanted to do X, and then all the answers (correctly) told the person that they actually needed to do Y and explained quite well how to do Y.

I actually need to do X, so those answers are useless to me.

Then I find another question on how to do X, and the mods close it as a duplicate of that earlier question. Even when the questioner specifically notes in their question that it is not a duplicate of that earlier question because they really need to do X the idiot moderators close it.
Generally if you’re sick enough to need the ER you’re too sick to drive. Further, did you know that there is such a thing as legally impaired driving?

> Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free.

Notice how that doesn’t say “only if they do what I say”?
Ed O'Neill, who played Al Bundy, also appeared in the Wayne's World movies as the creepy donut shop manager. So there's an in-Wayneverse reason for him to be there.

Brad was, of course, the template for Garth. Dana first did the Garth voice as an impression of his brother.
>We're all humans

I'm just obeying orders please don't be mean to me :'( :'( :'( :'(
> you shouldn't have to list every constraint and design descision that led you to that point

True, but that logic goes both ways: Unless told otherwise, whoever reads the question, isn't required to assume that there is a constraint.

If I get asked how to water plants with a sieve, without getting told why getting a watering can is impossible, "You don't, use a watering can", is a perfectly acceptable answer.

Especially when the question is aked in a question archive, rather than a help-forum.

If specific constraints apply to a question, then they should be a part of the question.
> there’s nothing stopping a bar from selling 568ml portions of beer

The law (via regulations) stipulates what sizes can be sold. As an example, this[1] from 2011:

> The centuries-old cry of "fancy a pint?" may soon become "fancy a schooner?" under plans to relax the strict rules dictating drink sizes.

> Current regulations mean draught beer must be sold in pints (equivalent to 568ml), halves (284ml) or the little-known "thirds", and wine in measures of 250ml, 175ml or 125ml

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12113880#main-heading
Device makes hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency
Parents should not have undue influence on other's (the kid) life as they wish by giving a stupid name. Instead parents should change their own name to xxx if they like it so much.
It takes a while to design an ASIC and it hasn't been that long since the hype wave really arrived for these things. I would bet on LLM chips showing up in 2024-2025.

There's also a run on foundries right now which might delay things further. The new foundries in the US being built under the Chips act in Arizona and Ohio won't be online until probably 2025.
hey, peer here, cofounder of cal.com. We are quite fortunate to have a growing enterprise business that is subsidising the free plan.

we will never raise prices for the free plan, free stays free, especially since it's open source which means if we were to raise, it would compete with the self-hosted product and we really dont want that

rest assured, we are comfortable providing a free product with enterprise customers
I don’t want these features. This will inevitably break certain experiences. Some features like query parameters are part of HTTP and shouldn’t be tampered with.
Agree. Makes me wonder if the author could be cleverly supporting a machine learning agenda by downplaying Stack Overflow.
The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
Eh, I use a stone mortar and pestle and it's not that hard. A few minutes' work at most. Many western recipes are more elaborate than having to grind up some spices.
I wrote some code to run on the office computer that we used to stream music from. At a random time every 24-48 hours, it would turn its volume up and say “I love you” using the Mac OS whisper voice.
The source appears to be at https://github.com/LaniJ/invoice-dragon , so it presumably is already offline deployable.
Do you mean "If this page is not displaying as expected, you can reduce advanced privacy protections which may resolve issues"?

That's legit, and also annoying. I've filed a bug with Apple to get an option to permanently suppress it.
tracks themselves should be nationalized, just like roads are. then the government can allow any operator to use the tracks. don't get rid of redundancy, use it to increase capacity, and where practical, keep cargo and passenger tracks separate.

mixing busy cargo and passenger tracks is a bad idea, because passenger trains need to be reliable without delays in order to be attractive. cargo can handle delays better but wants to travel as fast as possible which is pretty difficult when passenger trains with their multiple stops get in the way.

so without knowing the chicago rail network, i'd claim that there is no redundancy that could be freed
I mean, the story really only starts in season 2. Most everyone agrees that you’re better off skipping most of season 1 except for five or so pivotal episodes and a few others that are quite important wrt character development.
> It made fine sense to me,

"Fine sense"? Even that isn't a standard phrase.

I doubt you, TBH.

Each paragraph barely coheres.

Examples:

> an entirely ideological win

What does that mean?

> there is a fully documented dearth of information

... is nonsensical.

> a mere quandary of any part of the system

More nonsense.

> in the completely free entirety of information available until time itself forgets it

... wut?

> adopt there new role

Benefit of the doubt: typo

Doesn't make sense even fixed, though.

> segregated fully autonomous systems loosely networked together

... wut?

> the same status that all 99th percentile that all previous technology

What?

> The nerds won, we made computers into a skilled labor.

Always was.

This is word salad. If you scan very hastily and you're not good at skimming -- and writing online for 10s to 100s of thousands of readers a day has taught me that many people can't skim to save their lives but they don't know that they can't -- it may look superficially like coherent English text, but it isn't.
I think any decent forum software can serve as a Q&A format. You can re-style the original post of a thread to be more prominent as the "Q" and then other answers as the "A"s.

A forum I used to be a part of created their own forum software from scratch to revive the now-defunct facepunch forums:

Forum: knockout.chat/

Software: https://gitlab.com/knockout-community
I feel the same. Why can we not reactivate things?

For once, I'm going to hire someone to install me a local USENET set of groups for my research team, using e.g.:

local.news
local.research
local.research.conferences
local.research.papers
local.research.ideas
local.research.conferences
local.research.experiments
local.research.datasets
local.research.tools
local.systems
local.social
local.teaching
local.admin

(I find NNTP servers needlessly hard to install. On the client side, there are many readers still embedded in Web browsers, but I prefer Emacs GNUS.)
What a pleasure to read. While we focus on the bow technology, the culture that enabled the level of horsemanship they required also may have some intrinsic features, as riding a horse is the equivalent to strapping in to an Iron Man suit.

It's a 1000lb body with four independent legs, and with super human strength, speed, vision, smell, and hearing, and a hypersensitive relation to its environment that you learn to literally direct with your mind. The being senses your intentions and accepts them as its own, and you interpret its enhanced senses as your own in turn. That symbiosis is some real inter-being mind-meld stuff. Before heavier techology, the use of animals in warfare must have been completely overwhelming. Culturally, just relating with such a rich nonverbal physical presence would have been a different experience of their environment. If a group of Mongol horsemen rode up on some agrarian villagers, the gravity of what they were encountering must have been clear - animals in nature deferred to them.

When I'm asked why I still ride in a world like todays, I often respond that it develops an essential human quality of connecting with other beings. Also, if things ever went apocalyptically bad, we also know that there are no kings without horsemen. It's an enjoyable hedge.
Except he can't make an "everything app" because we're not in China. People don't want the "convenience" of being able to do everything in the same app because they rightfully fear monopolies and over-consolidation of major corporations, and they doubly fear the government and corporations creating a way-too-convenient method of collecting every detail, large and small, about one's life in a single app.

WeChat is what it is in China because it replicates (in a sense) how things are in Chinese society.

Also, X is fucking stupid.
Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits now please buy our silicon
If those Chromebooks are same model, install and configure Debian, newest browser, etc once. Then use dd to backup internal harddrive disk image, and restore to other chromebooks. Change UUID, hostname etc with script.

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/usbharddrive/debian.img bs=20M conv=sync status=progress

https://github.com/xet7/chromebook
Hence why the guess is that it was clays not crystals. Clays are more complex mechanically, somewhat porous, kind of work as a prototype cell wall. Consensus is more on the side of biofilms than crystals at that point. There are relatively simple multiphase processes that can create such lipid and biological bubbles. Just check how micelles form from random hydrocarbons in water with additives. The more stable micelles would allow biofilms to form inside, and so it goes.

Generally cell wall first hypothesis over RNA/peptides first.

Through such a biofilm micelle only certain chemicals can get in or out. This favors particular molecules "crystallizing" (or rather polymerizing) inside such micelles.
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The fact that an easter egg about a TV show makes the list of the worst things they've ever done speaks volumes. It was a bad decision, but it was not malicious and it had negligible impact on users. Google does something 10x worse every single day.
> but to not see how biased and crazy what you're saying is because of it is simply mind boggling.

To continue to tout his genius in the face of all of the evidence to the opposite is mind boggling
There are already reports that some investors have marked down their Twitter stakes by 2/3 or more.
Let's be real: If Firefox changed the default search engine it probably wouldn't even cause a blip to Google's traffic.

The real reason Google pays Mozilla is probably closer to "controlled opposition" or "antitrust shield".
I imagine it's a company similar to Bulletin Intelligence. Would you be open to discussing your experiences in this industry?