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"equilibrium so precarious that a couple degrees in mean temperature change" does not really mesh very well with having annual (and even daily) variation much larger.

If you never experienced a hot slide as a kid, maybe you were just coddled? Lots of the modern so-called environmentalism is driven by people having ridiculously little first hand experience with nature or even being outdoors.
I don't know what this is but I observe that it seems inadvisable to use trademarks from litigious companies as project names.
Absolutes are far from helpful in this conversation.

There's a fair bit of nuance in this topic, but it can be argued that a totalitarian regime whose primary interest is remaining in power will resort to more oppressive measures towards its citizens than one that at least has some semblance of respecting human rights and democratic processes. This doesn't mean that there aren't things to praise and criticize about both sides, but _overall_ one system of government is demonstrably more benevolent, to its own citizens, at least.

What I'm really tired of, though, is everytime there's news about something worth criticizing about China, these comparisons with the West are mentioned. It only serves to muddle the conversation, which can be seen as the intent of whoever brings it up.
we are so f*ed
I'm glad you hate it so much you'd resort to sarcastic reverse psychology and psychological projection, carrying the water for Jerry Pournelle, instead of having any rational counter argument. Why don't you try telling your friends on the House Armed Services Committee about how I'm abusing the Internet?
Microsoft Bing AI Generates Images of Kirby Doing 9/11
There is no confusion in the work of decent economists like Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.

Rejecting their wisdom leads to the economic cratering we see about us.
My wife hit upon something that might be interesting to anyone reading this. I don't think any of the comments here directly put their finger upon it.

Some possibly unimportant background: my wife used to suffer from depression, but in the last 10 years that has subsided, mostly through self-guided philosophy and practical stuff. What remains is social anxiety and a life-long history of avoiding working for/with people. For reasons I won't go into she has a huge problem with authority figures, so early jobs with unfair or idiotic bosses lasted a "tableflip" amount of time. She's run a solo business for most of her adult life "to avoid dealing with people". The double-irony is:

1. There's almost no such thing as "working alone". A successful business requires interaction, and if you're solo, you need to do all of it.

2. She realized that without having to do something for someone she has zero motivation to do anything at all even though she loves what she actually does.

Without a client she thinks "why bother?". As soon as a client contacts her, off she goes like a bee. And even though she consciously realizes this, she has never found a way to trick her brain into doing work for herself. Sometimes I feel like faking a client just so she can work, because once she's going, her work is amazing and she loves what she does. She's even done free/low cost work for cash-strapped clients just so that she can work.

So what I'm saying is that she needs her work to matter to someone specific, but it doesn't matter who.

I thought she was nuts, but after 20+ years of working for various companies I took a 6 month break from work. I had all sorts of plans for things I'd hack on. I finished nothing, except for the raspberry pi arcade cabinet for my nephews.

We all know that startups need to get their product into customer hands. We think that the client's excellent feedback will knock the product into shape. But I think it might just be the fact that you have a customer who needs you to deliver. Having worked for a few early stages startups that had no clients yet, this effect is visible.
Not sure about all features, but certainly calling and screen-sharing works for me.
> At least with busy beaver numbers there isn’t some stupid paradox, we just can’t practically solve them.

No! In computability theory we work with Turing Machines that have unlimited memory. Since they have unlimited memory, the sizes of individual busy beaver numbers are not the problem. Individual busy beaver numbers are in fact all computable because every integer is computable. What is uncomputable is the busy beaver function. The busy beaver function is uncomputable because of the halting problem -- I suggest finding or reading a proof. Therefore the BB function provides zero additional insight into undecidability.

I'm also amazed that there are people on this technology website - like you - who see all of this progress happening in AI with programs that are close to human intelligence, and still think that human beings can do things like determine arbitrarily large busy beaver numbers. We have concrete evidence that human beings are themselves limited by computability. People cannot just write arbitrarily good programs (to determine the first n busy beaver number, let's say) because people are programs.
Also it might reinforce cognitive biais as pure truths to a lot of people who rely only on themselves if no other information is reliable
Being interrupted isn’t something that can be solved with technology, it’s more a lifestyle thing
Sure, I wasn't referring specifically to Bosnia mentioned here: I don't know much about that case really, I haven't deeply looked at it, at least recently, and I don't know.

I'm glad to see you are in favor of keeping an open mind, but saddened to see you would want to put limits on your intellectual exploration! I generally think that's a poor idea.

Many reasons, here's two: 1) what better adventure is there? How fun it is to explore curiously some out there possibilities outside of what we know! You might just discover something incredible, and true. It may even be useful! Onward! Haha :)

2) It's kind of arrogant to think, 'well I can't be "too open" otherwise I might consider some things that are wrong.' To me that reeks of orthodoxy and this idea that humans can proscribe what is possible for the universe, rather than standing in awe of it and in humility at our ignorance of all the things we don't know.

I think that humility, ignorance and awe is ultimately liberating, and the intellectually honest thing to do, and not just honest, but the most useful position to take, the scientifically ignorant one.

I see your "smart person", and I raise you one, haha! :) One smart person recently said: "Science is nothing more than the invention of ignorance."

I encourage you to meditate deeply upon that. I'll go watch your youtube video now! :)

edit: Oh Tim Minchin is often very funny, but I find him off here. Out of touch and a little flat. I also like George Carlin, I recommend you check him out if you haven't.

I think comedians can offer us insights, but in general they should not be used as guides as to what's possible, nor as proscribers of your intellectual curiosity.

If you let them do that, you're basically subscribing to a kind of orthodoxy that many comedians are by definition against, being free, lateral thinkers in many (but perhaps not all!) ways.

The sad thing about Minchin's stance above is he couches it in this irrefutable way, when it's really not. A lot of the things he tries to make out, as unsubstantiated are in fact very substantiated. But sadly it feels as if you would only seek to mock those things, as Minchin tries to, so perhaps you're not the best one to have that discussion with now, I guess? Haha :)

I also wonder if Minchin is not subtly lampooning the stance he merely pretends to embody there? It would be in character for him. And the way he rapid-fires the overly formal verbiage, seems to suggest satire, even mockery of it. At least I think we should remain open to the possibility that's what he's doing! Or at the very least perhaps not make much of the stance of someone whose job it is as court jester to basically satirize everything! :) hahahaha

But thank you for reminding me of him. I'm a fan of that duet he did with Missy Higgins. You should check that out!
A must-have, for pilot comfort. A small gesture from the house, to compensate for the fact that his/her neck might snap on punch-out..

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/f-35-latest-problems-e...
Chinese Scientists Create Alternative to Concrete
I have a friend in Sweden who is in the situation you described because of debt accrued by his father. It really is insane. I won't pretend I have any understanding of Swedish law but afaik in just about any other western country you can simply declare bankruptcy and you're more or less a free man once again.
Sure. If you raise any kind of weapon to the Swedish police you can expect to be gunned down, regardless of circumstances.
Yep they are amazing. Never been a fan of alternative JVM languages, but wrote most tests in Groovy just for this feature.
Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs–and They’re Celebrating
Ahahah did the same with an AMD Athlon that was overheating and hanging a lot at my first job in a very scrappy company (but I was 20!)
My pre-M1 x86 Macbook Pro would overheat so badly and grind to a halt, that once I had a Zoom meeting scheduled that I could not miss, so I took a bag of frozen peas out of the freezer, and rubbed them on the bottom of the Mac until it cooled down enough to run Zoom. I made the meeting in time, but it ruined the peas, though.
I think this makes more sense as a wagie. If you're doing solo work, it's fairly often you make huge lumps of money, and then nothing for months on end; or you're making money passively through existing accounts that use a service you're running that doesn't require much daily upkeep, etc.

There is not such a clear relationship between putting in work and making money in the same way showing up at a job has. The effect of slacking off may not manifest until a year later when you didn't land a new client or didn't get an investment.
That's assuming you're mixing sensitive data and insensitive data in one collection. Heartbleed was access of random memory, a much more serious exploit
And you should have your separate paid premium service of locking the device for your mom in the future instead of crippling 100% of users
My phone shows installed pwas as an icon but it's overlaid with a Firefox icon. That's really annoying
Why a Colorado Powerball jackpot winner wouldn’t get $1.4B
It's a photon. Photons always have speed = 1C.
This is exactly why I chose that approach for my websites. My website content and its backups are source-controlled, human-readable files. I can edit them with the tools I love, not just what's supplied with the content management system.

I'm now rebuilding my timeline thing [0] with the filesystem as the database. However, I still use an SQLite database as intermediate storage, because extracting metadata from thousands of photos is not cheap.

In other words, you'll need to build your own cache, and sync it with your filesystem. Making data human-readable makes it slower for machines to read.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
Overly complicated in what way exactly?
I'm not an expert in training LLMs, but I've heard that some people use reinforcement algorithms to train and align LLM behaviors with human preferences. When it comes to designing a loss function for training, I wonder if it's possible to assign an extremely high loss value to hallucinated content during training. This approach might encourage the model to refrain from generating inaccurate content.
Same happened to me with a phone. (nexus 5x). It stopped working all the sudden during a vacation.

Putting in the freezer would allow me to boot it and backup the data. Fridge was not enough as it was not cold enough to dissipate the heat of the device on boot.

As soon as the phone was out of the freezer it would die in about 30 seconds.

Saved all the vacation pictures this way
Oh dear God. The BB function is uncomputable precisely because of the halting problem, which you think is a "logical trick".
Yeah, especially for crud apps when you get to implementing forms. So much easier with rails and hotwire.

But I would be tempted to go react and inertia js for MUI or EUI for the predesinged components and nice datagrids.

- https://eui.elastic.co
- https://mui.com
I might be an outlier here, but except when data size is a real constraint, I tend to favor XML. (ToML being a good contender, but I don't have enough real-life experience with it yet)
You must be lucky.

Some places are still cursed with enough antiquated forms of red tape that it becomes impossible to do so...
Sure, when it became an accesible standard it was better. A better technical solution that couldn't actually be used by other manufacturers is not an actual solution, so until Tesla actually put up people were right to complain (similarly about Tesla's chargers not supporting other vehicles). For a long time Tesla talked a big talk about pushing EVs as a whole forward while doing their very best to fragment the charging ecosystem as much as they could. It was very right to complain about that, it's probably part of why they have actually brought their actions in line with their words.
Helped me to find a missing comma in a sql query a couple of weeks ago.
Abstract is not (only) the main finding of the study. It’s often a mini version of the article, with a background, methods, results and conclusion.

The length of the abstract in the linked article is well justified, in my opinion.
You forgot the /s at the end I guess…
Around here setting up a sausage stand is tightly regulated.

Granted. I don't know of any remotely reasonable (non-politicized) comparable study of economic freedom in China; my assessment is from talking to people (expats, entrepreneurs etc.) and just looking at what was going on.

I remember sitting at a restaurant in a small village and watching a local drone company doing testing on the parking lot. 4 engineers and a drone the size of a small car.

Just no way that would be allowed in anywhere in Europe.
This has been a problem for decades. Yet there are no real attempts to solve the problem, which will only get worse as time goes on. Similar problems occur with street addresses.

https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...
I find all this really incredible as well. But at the same time I also find it really 'mindblowing' that I am able to think about why and how all of this stuff was made, and while thinking about it, there will always come a point where you have to at least 'think' about an creator. Not that I think it was made especially for us, but it's still very strange. Somewhere I read when you think about the universe it is like "The Universe thinking about itself.".
The main thing io_uring gives you is avoiding multiple syscalls.

With a pipe you can’t really avoid that. With a shared memory queue/ring buffer you can write to the memory without any syscalls.

But you need to build synchronisation yourself (e.g., using semaphores for example). You don’t necessarily need to poll.
It is true for Copenhagen, but I wonder how it feels to families living in rural areas.
Idkfa – the activitypub everything app proxy
You misunderstand: (at least some of) Tesla's patents are likely enforcable. It's the terms under which they can be used in the "patent sharing agreement" which are vague and quite expansive (which is quite possible to enforce in contract/licensing law, and the courts are willing to take very extreme positions on in business to business cases), and that is why no-one has engaged with it.
I think the insufficient accuracy in the output of LLMs is going to lead them to be a lot more niche then the current hype is hoping for. I think most people care that someone is taking accountability for what they are reading - not that it is necessarily correct but at least that someone thinks it is correct (and that someone can be taken to task if it is inaccurate).

If LLM usage in media becomes widespread, I'd pay for a service that identifies and hides the LLM shit for me.
Oh, how cute Google. It really is a smoke screen for Evil Corp.
It might very well be the better option but the printing execs want their subscription pricing dollars.
(in a vacuum)
Any turboshaft engine is a jet engine if you don't connect anything to the shaft and point the exhaust in the right direction. Just not a very good one, at zero bypass.

If you think there is anything done in this project to increase performance you are missing the point of the joke: woah, jet engine! Woah, rated 1350 horse power! Heh, retro novelty compact with a truly glorious amount of hot air.

Will the turbine exhaust noticeable push the car? Sure. Even a piston engine exhaust does, e.g. some versions of the Merlin engine claim extra 70 HP from exhaust thrust.

Is the author having great fun (and readers who get it) by brandishing the rated rotary power of the turbine over and over again, while carefully avoiding any mention of actual performance of the car? Absolutely. But it's not mean deception, it's friendly trolling. Which is basically the essence of the entire hot rod idea. I dislike the waste (of a good car, and the occasional kerosene burn, the turbine was probably beyond airworthyness certification and thus scrap anyway), but I find his "friendly trolling" charming in a surprisingly deep way.
> Google.com and Youtube.com, operated by the same people who made the docs tool, make the entirely-fair assumption that neither contain malware.

The same people who got caught war driving with Streetview if you want to be that generous.
>An 85% reduction in orca sightings on the fishing grounds during playback of the audio signals compared to before playback.

>No harm to orca from the sound

Interesting that removing their choice of when and where to eat isn’t considered harm…

I imagine that once these get used in yachts for a while the pods will stop being familiar with attacking. It seems the end game customer of this is the fishing industry. Maybe it’s helpful because it will keep whales away from nets. But there appears to be a massive potential for incentivized over use here with no one the wiser… until 20 years later when we’re asking why whale sightings are declining.
Yup, software development is the new factory work.
I keep getting asked about "<yourbusinessname>@mydomain.com" every time. "Oh, you work here too?".

People have no idea how email works (and why should they?).
But what if you have to use an LLM at your new job?
Technically no, photons don't always have a speed of 1C, as C is the speed of light _in a vacuum_. In more dense matter the speed of light will slow down.
Europe isn't a bastion of economic freedom - a previous commenter described an absolutely egregious amount of government overreach pertaining taxes.
Why not simply use mmap judiciously in a program managed shared memory ring buffer? Then you can copy at roughly memory speed.
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Yeah, you're paying the tax owed, not much way around that unless you have allowed deductions or something else

But the higher fines/criminal charge are usually for very, very egregious failures to pay
"If the emitter is coming towards us that would blue-shift photons," is, I think, the point of the previous person's comment.
I don't think you can make a third party client app for any of Google's services at all. So, unless you convince Google to port their apps on your fork of Android, your users will not be able to use an YouTube app or a Gmail app or Waze most likely.

Microsoft tried to do this a long time ago for Windows Phone, and Google openly thwarted them every step of the way, changing APIs and so on to prevent those apps from actually working. And they of course refused to launch any apps of their own for WP.
I don't think that.

My last sentence on the parent message was directed to the comment I was replying to (which said they couldn't set up node properly).

What I do think is that there's a huge % of Rails devs that hate on JavaScript as if it were some kind of enemy to beat or something, and often that leads to people not wanting to learn it properly.
I’m quite stunned by the virulence of the responses and how strong the (false) dichotomy between ‘communism’ and ‘capitalism’ is.
Making burgers is the activity; getting rich is still the first motivation. Besides, I'm not sure Ray Kroc is the best example, and I doubt he personally made a lot of burgers; he bought the national franchise rights to the McDonald's restaurant chain after it was well established, and set about getting rich by making a more efficient burger-restaurant process.
Looks like HCL in the end, mostly.

If HCL was more standardised across languages, maybe without the interpolation bits, it would be a nice common configuration format IMHO [0].

[0]: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/introduction-to-hcl/
More unnecessary technology doesn't solve the problem of too much unnecessary technology.
A question on the ownership of property in china and how it relates to the "nail" houses often seen in pictures.

While I am sure real property ownership is weaker in china, The propaganda is I assume based on a exaggerated version of the truth. I also have never seen a public works project held up so dramatically by a single reluctant owner. Usually the government will claim eminent domain and poof, there go all your so called real property ownership rights, up in smoke.

What is it about these cases that that a person in a communist state(where by definition no one owns property(yes I know this is not strictly true but for the sake of the question hear me out)) apparently has stronger property guarantees than than our ownership centric capitalist state?
JSON seems more like a more appropriate format for this since it's an interchange format.
Also everything located in (and, supposedly, not exiting) E.U..
and still no videos online.... fishy
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_function_of_a_matrix
This post is an excuse to explain VM concepts, rather than a tutorial, something I maybe could have made clearer.
Indeed, the event stream contains the full history of all events that have ever been produced during the lifetime of the application.
Slack is an IRC client as much as a shovel is an excavator.
HttPlaceholder: Stub away any HTTP webservice
We Leverage Our Own Custom AI to Create Social Content (Including This Post)
For a full Windows desktop replacement, no ARM tops Intel in performance, when saving battery power isn't a consideration.
SAFe = "Agile" for managers who miss Waterfall projects
I wouldn't worry about it. The heat death of the universe isn't the end. The Second Law is a statistical, not an absolute, law. So, even after heat death, structures of all sizes will randomly emerge on large enough timescales. (Read: effectively infinite timescales -- timescales large enough to make Graham's Number look like a small number.) Wait long enough, and you'll get Boltzmann Brains, Boltzmann planets, and even Boltzmann galaxies. All sorts of things. In many respects, the universe after heat death is more interesting than the universe before heat death --- it's an unbound infinite probability space.