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The SLAM missile it was designed for was scarier than just that. It was to be able to fly supersonic close to the ground for months at end and could be modified to bleed radioactivity into the exhaust. So not only would it nuke several cities, it would then deafen, kill and/or radiation poison with its flyovers.
Not Wiidora?
It was explicitly renamed away from `uint` to make it clear that it's not the default integer. Rust tries to encourage using explicit bit widths.
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This is different, because:

- You usually can attribute history written by a victor to said victor;

- There's only so much control a victor has over what's being kept by the monks, librarians, museum curators and individuals, and what of it will resurface once they're gone.

With AI, we're not talking about alternative history, but rather about infinite, arbitrary alternative histories that can't be told apart from the real one.
There's a big push for nuclear now, I'm curious, is there a hypothetical series of events that even an reasonable nuclear advocate is concerned about? They are mostly not too worried about Fukushima water for example.
I found Portfolio Performance to be non-intuitive and very hard to use
Until n=0 goes to 1. As the Concorde.

Like, this sudden optimism concerning nuclear power is a bit worrying. Lowest bidder building small plants everywhere. What a nightmare ...

I really don't get where all this trust for the competence of others comes from.
Ok, thank you for input
It would be very interesting for us to learn about something in ancient Egypt that is equivalent to white noise today. I think the issue of storage should be solved and made abundant. We should not be worrying about what to save, but rather what if we cannot save.
It's low hanging because it costs consumers nothing to eat less beef.

The costs of cleaning up all those industries will get passed on to consumers.
I once had a post removed from Facebook (not sure if it was DMCA, but it was a copyright claim). My offense: I had linked to a page that linked to a page with pirated content.

Of course, the reporter had zero copyright claim on the URL I posted. But that didn't matter at the end of the day. And expecting politicians to willingly understand this instead of doing big political posturing is serious wishful thinking, I'm afraid.
A more accurate term would be water bandits rather than pirates.
Given that council wants to win a prosecutor needs to be proven competent and yet lose 2/3rds of the time to be a neutral one?
It's foolish to think unarmed drones are less dangerous. They'll log your face, the faces of your friends, record audio, and next time you enter a government building/airport/other high-security area, you are arrested for spreading misinformation & hate speech/violating curfew/social distancing, reported to your employer for breaking your NDA/discussing your salary/organizing a union/conspiring to interfere with a business, etc.

Blunt instruments like guns and tear gas are the least dangerous parts of tyranny.
It's nice but if only it had types. After using languages like TypeScript and Rust, it's very hard to go back.
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Wow, this comment is very rude and completely out of place.
I just started a job using PoDL and so far I'm quite impressed with it as a technology. I'd like to see consumer devices start to use it too.
Maybe, it is possible to use both a firmware unlock against an OPAL encrypted drive, and validate the signature of the initrd/UKI as part of secure boot. Either or both protect against this to a certain extent depending on configuration.

As does of measuring all of the above into PCRs that are unlocked with by the utility prompting for a pin used alongside the PCRs to unlock the key.
He's a shitty interviewer. Often doesn't even engage with his guest's responses, as if he's not even listening to what they're saying, instead moving mechanically to his next bullet-point. Which is completely ridiculous for what's supposed to be a long-format conversational interview.

The best episodes are ones where the guest drives the interview and has a lot of interesting things to say. Fridman's just useful for attracting interesting domain experts somewhere we can hear them speak for hours on end.

The Jim Keller episodes are excellent IMO, despite Fridman. Guests like Keller and Carmack don't need a good interviewer for it to be a worthwhile listen.
What does a "book" really mean in the current era of online marketplaces that accept (and promote) self-publishing? A book is now just a differently formatted PDF file. It's not that different from any web site. Calling something a book conveys no authority.

In the past, getting a physical book into your local bookstore meant that someone had to spend money to physically print the book and have agreements with bookstores to physically put the book on their shelves. This threshold prevented garbage books from being made and distributed, because you had to convince someone to invest in the book and distribution.

Of course, there were always self-published books available, but they wouldn't be in the same locations as other mass-market books. You could physically inspect the book and realize that it was lower quality. These AI generated books are the equivalent of a bunch of papers stapled together.

The Amazon "bookstore" has become the same as any other "App store" - full of garbage, to prey on less discerning users and vulnerable to the same kinds of manipulation.
Everybody deserves freedom of movement regardless of how smart you think they are.
The book that changed my life: Usborne's cult classic The Book of the Future
Weird, I interviewed with him summer 2021 hoping to be able to land an ontologist job at Cycorp. It went spectacularly badly because it turned out I really needed to brush up more on my formal logic skills, but I was surprised to even get an interview, let alone with the man himself. He still encouraged me to work on reviewing logic and to apply again in the future but I stopped seeing listings at Cycorp for ontologists and started putting off returning to that aspiration thinking Cycorp has been around long enough that there was no rush. Memento mori
If you think Bernie Sanders was the leader of the "rich people are probably bad for our society" movement, I have a manifesto you should read.
But it’s not sudden optimism at all, it’s a multi-generational proven record.
Very helpful article! It jives with the evolution of my own understanding of autovacuum tuning over a decade and a half of writing high-performance Postgres-backed VoIP routing systems.

I would add to this that if you truly have a high-churn table, perhaps a traditional RDBM is not the best choice. Ask me how I learned that lesson the hard way. There are many things that, in hindsight, really should have gone into ELK or Splunk or Redis or something more suited to ephemeral or short-lived data sets that also turn over constantly.

But, sometimes there is no choice, or the churn is high but not quite high enough to rule out the use of an RDBM altogether. For those scenarios, the tips in this article really shine.
Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs

A big influence for sure, but that claim is a stretch.

Look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_books#Middle_Ages
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“The book that changed my life: Usborne's cult classic The Book of the Future”
If you can, you should:

https://nitter.net/MASA_06R/status/1696613936534360293
Does that applies to all books, even if you have 10 copies printed and distribute them privately?
Find the individuals who signed that contract, organize parent protests at their private homes.
Which I am also all in favor of, but I think I will stay on kevlar even if that day comes, sort of the cycling equivalent of 'trust, but verify'.
This article conflates issues in a misleading way. Yes companies calling their AI models 'open-source' when they are not released under an actual open-source license is a problem that needs to be addressed. But the argument that companies and individuals tailoring AI model to their specific use case somehow constitutes 'censorship' has nothing to do with this issue and is not even a sound and reasoned stance to begin with.

You are being 'censored' when you can't do something. There is nothing stopping anyone from taking something like Llama 2, loading it up with one of these 'uncensored' AI models and doing whatever the hell you want with it. Nothing is stopping you. That's your right. If you feel that strongly about these commercial AI services, just don't use them.

This is essentially arguing that if a company made a customer service AI chatbot the company's AI chatbot should be required by law to also be able to provide you with instructions on how to manufacture methamphetamine. And if the company doesn't open themselves to potentially severe legal and civil liability by allowing it, this all somehow constitutes a grievous violation of your rights? I'm sorry but that is an absurd assertion.

Again the licensing issue is a legitimate issue that needs to be addressed but this article is a straw-man argument using the licensing issue to promote a personal opinion.
Twitter has the largest database of tweets. If you want an AI that writes tweets, there’s nothing better. Why? Twitter could offer a service that bypasses the need for community manager… just feed it a press release, or product website, and it will provide a stream of well crafted ad tweets… or astroturf, even.
An alternative interpretation is that the cost-of-materials is insignificant related to brand dilution and/or the intended promotional value of the URLs themselves.

The biscuits may very well have simply been a flytrap of sorts (honey), or loss-leader. Disposing of them given that the URL is itself no longer useful might well be the pragmatic approach.

I also doubt the public will return sold product, though they might take actions against the packaging itself. I'd hope that unsold stock will be diverted to food banks or other noncommercial distributors, though possibly with a provision that packaging be covered (stickers or labels?) or removed prior to final distribution.
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That is literally what RSCs are, so unlike most of this thread, I am glad to start using them instead of using some template language like in PHP or Python.
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The Navy spends uses lots of people to run reactors on ships and spends tons of money training them.

Small reactors won't be economical if they take that many people to run.

Also, naval reactors aren't small. Aircraft carriers have two 250 MW (700 MW thermal) reactors. That is a respectable power plant and much larger than proposed modular reactors.
I've had the same idea (er, came to the same conclusion) but never acted on it. Awesome to see that someone has! Great name too.

I thought of it while daydreaming about how to converge public opinion in a nation with major political polarization. It'd be a sort of structured public debate forum and people could better see exactly where in the hierarchy they disagreed and, perhaps more importantly, how much they in fact agreed upon.
Reading the article my first interpretation was that dog treats were being confused for human, and/or vice versa.
The Worms video game series has a fun item: ropes.

These ropes are rigid but you can vary the length, so you can do a bunch of interesting pendulum behaviors to accelerate yourself.

If you had a long tether between two objects of different weights, and the whole system is rotating, I feel like you could get some interesting acceleration effects by rapidly shortening the tether (assuming its strong enough to not snap)
How did you handle stock splits?
Always blame the French.
Would expect no better from the company that unabashedly profited from the holocaust and south africa's apartheid.
The resurgence of this screed as a political movement was a creation owed to Bernie Sanders, without any doubt. He made is fashionable.

At the time, the "millionaires and billionaires" thing went global, and subsequently, when he dropped billionaires from his screed, so did the rest of the world.

So much of global political trends follow the US. See the various Trumpesque figures that popped up seemingly in every country, and note that despite the country of origin, you will only hear about evil billionaires these days.
Nuclear is uneconomical because politics wants it to be.

Leading up to the 1980s, nuclear was poised to replace basically the whole power grid. "Too cheap to meter" they said. Fossil fuel energy companies and the petroleum exporting countries who had only recently gotten their cartel going were, shall we say, not happy with this. (Also Russians. Literally they got caught funding anti-nuclear "environmental groups"; someone published the documents after they went into Ukraine. Russia is another major petroleum exporter.)

So they ran a propaganda campaign centered around Chernobyl to paint the safest known method of power generation as one too dangerous to use, so it would be buried in safety rules the incumbents weren't subject to themselves. (If a nuclear power plant released as much radiation as every coal-fired one does, it would be shut down.)

And now they say "well, it would be nice, but we can't use it because it costs too much."
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While cool/interesting, i'm failing to understand the attack your protecting against here in the context of just prompting for an unlock PIN.

Particularly if that unlock pin is for a FIDO key or whatever which can also be removed.

I mean, if someone steals your backpack, or stops you at the border, breaks into your house, whatever, they are getting the boot image too, right?

Furthermore, are all your machines AMD Pro or equivilant (with the encrypted RAM enabled)? Because the disk encryption key is probably just sitting unencrypted in system RAM otherwise, and is susceptible to people freezing the ram and removing it to another machine to extract the keys.
Here's one for you, Doug. My condolences.

https://chat.openai.com/share/dbd59c92-696b-45d3-8097-c09a23...
I’m not sure I agree.

If we were speaking Latin, would “Octopi” still be wrong? Given the logic used to claim that Octopuses is the correct pluralization, I don’t see how it could be.

Thus, I’m left to conclude that Octopodes is the only correct form since it lacks this spoken language dependency.
I feel like I saw one once but lost it -

Is there a githubrepo/tutorial for how linear algebra is used for a very small model just to demonstrate how that allows it to "learn"?

I've got the calc, I just don't understand what the matrix multiplication "does"
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IMHO they kept Schulz doing Peanuts long after he should have retired. I remember in the 90's looking at the current comic strips and thinking, "Why is this so popular? It's not really that funny." But then I found some books of Peanuts cartoons my Mom had from the 70's (or maybe 60's), and they were positively hilarious.

Bill Watterson made the right decision by retiring from Calvin and Hobbes at the peak of his game.
> So why doesn't everyone use it?

Not to detract from your point, but nobody uses it because when network administrators everywhere started closing all the ports except for 80 (for "security!"), everybody moved to SOAP, that uses the port 80. And then, since the SOAP consortium doesn't have enough competency to create a full data transfer format, starting from XML and contained in a couple thousands pages of docs, in about a decade people said "enough!" and moved into what is commonly called REST.

The problem with component boundaries is there, but it's not really what CORBA did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_nuclear_reactor

It appears to not require active safety systems. And we are talking about Alaska.
You might be interested in this article by the creator of the HTML5 spec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696

He talks about using WASM for applications and HTML/CSS/JS for basic websites.
At every driver's ed they teach you that driving is a privilege, not a right.

You are free to take the bus or ride a bike if one is incapable of driving safely. The rest of society isn't forced to suffer.
Sometimes I miss having an office to go into, but idk what to call this except propaganda. Not much of substance here.
> If NN inference were so fast, we would compile C programs with it instead of using deductive logical inference that is executed efficiently by the compiler.

This is the definition of a strawman. Who is claiming that NN inference is always the fastest way to run computation?

Instead of trying to bring down another technology (neural networks), how about you focus on making symbolic methods usable to solve real-world problems; e.g. how can I build a robust email spam detection system with symbolic methods?
Looks like the base in right next to Fairbanks, Alaska https://goo.gl/maps/3HBnJAtu5HnqXyyy9

That must be a busy place for intercepting Russian aircraft. They've got 54 F-35's flying out of there and a bunch of surveillance crafts (+ apparently plenty of US army doing winter training, with some frequent Canadian visitors):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eielson_Air_Force_Base

Apparently the base almost closed down following the cold war but then the northern pacific became a hot zone again with Russia and China.
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I really wish pricing pages included both per-hour and per-month (or per-30-days) pricing.