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> The British oil giant wants to decrease its carbon emissions by between 20 and 30 percent by 2030. It previously aimed for a 35 to 40%.

The only way they can significantly decrease "their" carbon emissions is by selling less of their product, which would be by lowering their lobbying and switching to another source of revenue.

I could say this is good news, not that I care about bp or tesla chargers, but anything that allows them to pivot to another revenue stream is less petrol they'll sell to be burnt.

But truth be told there is no reason why it would be subtractive when it can be additive. Any pledge they make is meaningless. All will be burnt until there's none, because it doesn't cost remotely as much to produce than it brings to sell.
I'm not in the same field, nor in the USA, but I've found the incentives usually work but there is a misunderstanding of the role of the professor.

All the professors I know have their teams pursuing multiple lines of work. Some are "safe" and some are more out there. A typical "safe" area is usually running some very expensive piece of equipment (like a mass spectrometer or something) b/c that automatically generates collaborations and gets your name on lots of papers. You need to mix and match and use the safer work to fund your more experimental ideas. They also basically never do too much research themselves. They will dip in and give suggestions and guidance and help out, but their primary role is to teach and act as a lab manager - directing students and postdocs to different areas of research. So in a way, if you're being a professor and personally deeply involved in the research, then you're "doing it wrong".

On a high level, at least from these popsci descriptions of her work, it kinda feels like Katalin Karikó was just not doing the professor role correctly? The fact she was working on this one problem (and seemingly nothing else?) is very surprising for a professor. Professors aren't just tenured post-docs. If you don't want to be a lab manager then I don't think being a professor is the job for you
What are some good alternatives for actually FOSS LLMs? The leading LLMs would seem to be ChatGPT-4 and LLama 2, but OpenAI isn't open, nor is a license that restricts usage even just larger limits free, which Llama is licensed under (and people are buying Facebook's lies that it is actually open-source).
> The British oil giant wants to decrease its carbon emissions by between 20 and 30 percent by 2030. It previously aimed for a 35 to 40%.

The only way they can significantly decrease "their" carbon emissions is by selling less of their product, lowering their lobbying and switching to another source of revenue.

I could say this is good news, not that I care about bp or tesla chargers, but anything that allows them to pivot to another revenue stream is less petrol they'll sell to be burnt.

But truth be told there is no reason why it would be subtractive or substitutive when it can be additive. Any pledge they make is meaningless. All will be burnt until there's none, because it doesn't cost remotely as much to produce than it brings to sell.
The media is so thirsty.
Meta’s aspiration might be to take on OpenAI, but so far they have not released a single consumer product that can compete with ChatGPT’s success. This article paints a positive picture for Meta. Does it really match reality?
To get anyone from outside of Android ecosystem up to speed, blog author has always had controversial opinions. He's been trying to prove to the community that new Compose library is for what worse than decade old imperative UI system on Android for the past couple of years.
I remember reading in an interview, Steve Jobs mentioning he used to go on meditation retreats to a place near SF called something like "Still Point".

And he would sit against a wall and meditate.

Can't find any links about it any more.

(If anyone can find links to the retreat or to him mentioning doing this meditation, please post them below.)
To me it is both the sound of the machine running and the sound of the fast moving air running over the hands. When there are multiple people drying their hands all at once, in a tile covered bathroom, I find the sound to be unbearable. Even if it's just me drying my hands, the discomfort is too much.

I have tinnitus and so my sensitivity might be lower than the average person. Other sounds that cause me pain and distress:

1. Movie theaters these days. Why are they so goddamn loud? I can't tell if it's the sound design of the movie, or if the volume is way up in the theater. If I don't wear earplugs, my ears will be in pain and ringing for days.

2. My refrigerator that has developed an obnoxious electric whine. I can hear it from across the house. It is currently being replaced, and I am spending an absurd amount of money on a quiet refrigerator.

3. A commercial carpet cleaning vacuum running for hours at a time down the block. Again with the high-pitched sound and I can hear it from a mile away. And it's always in the mornings when I am trying to read.

4. Ceramic dishware clashing together. This too causes pain. When I do the dishes, I am mindful of the loud sounds made when stacking plates and bowls, so I stack carefully. When family does the dishes, they create a soundscape from hell. It is like their hands are not connected to their brains and they've never put anything down gently in their entire lives.

5. Industrial electrical boxes. I parked on a top floor of a local parking garage the other day, and I noticed 4-6 very large electrical boxes mounted along one of the walls. The sound coming from these boxes was so loud, so sharp to my ears, I had to get back in the car right away and drive out. It only took a few moments of exposure and my ears were ringing and my head was splitting for hours.

I know I must seem insane, but I don't care. I will go out of my way to create quiet spaces, to preserve the silence, to avoid noise that causes distress, because sometimes it takes days for me to recover. And having to battle this stuff constantly just makes me angry and annoyed, and I don't like that.

I've had numerous ear and hearing exams and in addition to the tinnitus, I'm told I have severe "hyperacusis."
None of this would be an issue if ISPs actually dropped UDP packets. They should run at a lower QoS by design. After all, the UDP spec explicitly calls out that it's unreliable. Yet IRL nobody drops them, ever, except during mitigation.

Just drop them already. It's been decades.
Blood pressure is such a hokey metric at the best of times. It’s highly dependent on a dozen different external conditions, most of which your average GP doesn’t even try to control for, and yet it’s treated as some kind of oracle of overall health.
My current job it’s 0% unless you count the gift cards they give us at Christmas.

However, I’ve just interviewed for a job with a decent six figure base salary, with a $20k car allowance, and up to an extra 50% of the base salary in bonuses and an uncapped commission + all expenses paid travel (the role involves extensive domestic travel and some international travel). I didn’t apply for this role, but was cold called by a recruiter and asked to consider it, so I agreed to do an interview. At this point, I’m actually kind of hopeful.
Taken to the logical conclusion, this public school (which your child is compulsed to attend)is requiring you to agree to a private company's ToS and extreme data exfiltration and arbitration clauses, so your child can be fed.

Even worse yet, by refusing to get a google account, you could be tried for child abuse, since the school won't feed your child if you won't agree to google's ToS.

I really hope you didn't acquiesce. And I hope you hired an attorney to fight these laughable and horrific abuses.
By your definition, the most secure thing then is to not do anything.

> what is this thread about?

It really rubs me the wrong way that you are passing opinion as fact, especially when it is an open source project that is meant to help people. Instead of shitting on other people's work by writing things like "I am happy to pass", perhaps go take a look to see how you could make the improvement that is so important to you?
How similar is this technique to Ronald Mallett's time travel device? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett
I dont see any difference with just any distro out there
What was the actual error in the blog post? Seems like the most interesting part was left out
Is there somewhere I can read about these bugs?
I really like this idea. I think I'll try Enso, as often I think of editing too much while writing, and it definitely breaks my state of flow
This only makes sense to me if everyone poops with their legs in the air, and does not hold onto anything for support.
> I just checked Beej's Guide and there's no mention of amplification. I wouldn't be surprised if TCP/IP Illustrated doesn't teach it either. This means most people won't know about it and they won't know that they don't know.

The issue isn't a lack of understanding of networking, it's a lack of understanding of the threat model.
Very strange juxtaposition to have a company owned by a non-profit, calling its product "Open AI" that is definitely not open and not free competing with a for-profit mega corp's product that is both free and open source.
> Don't forget that this is actually money laundering. Our NIH grants had major strings attached, like "you may not buy non-instrumentation computers" (at least, that's what I was told, I did not actually get to read the grants).

The EU does it better. At least with the old Horizon 2020 scheme, up to 20% of the grant amount could be set aside for overhead costs. Anything more would get flagged if the grant was ever audited.

This limited how much participating universities could repurpose. I don’t know how Horizon EU is set up, but my guess is that it follows the same approach.
Closed-loop driver for NEMA17 stepper motors
Crap. For my personal use case.
I’m back to btc.
( I just want to transfer money abroad )
Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024
As an author TeaVM I can tell you about advantages of TeaVM compared to GWT.

1. TeaVM can compile not only Java, but Scala and Kotlin. Actually, any JVM language, which is not using much reflection, invokedynamics and dynamic class loading in its runtime. It's possible because TeaVM uses JVM bytecode, not Java source code, as an input.
2. TeaVM can emulate threads. TeaVM won't spawn real threads, it will turn Java methods into coroutines and schedule their execution upon one physical thread. This won't speed-up programs by using multiple cores, but for example you can use Java synchronous IO APIs in a background thread.
3. TeaVM has more advanced reflection support. You can list class' methods and fields, call methods and get/set field via reflection (but as in any other AOT compiler you should list reflectable methods and fields).
4. Maven and Gradle plugins both available out-of-the-box, you don't need any 3rd party tool.
5. I usually get positive feedback from my users about compilation time compared to GWT.
6. TeaVM already has some limited support of compilation to WebAssembly.

As for latest Java version, TeaVM currently supports Java 21.
The keyword here is "focus": a spherical surface like this does not focus sun rays, you need a parabolic surface for that. While it would be possible to shape a film or another foldable material into a parabolic profile playing with air pressure and a specially crafted frame, I wonder what would be the advantage over a rigid parabolic mirror. The foldable/inflatable part is only an advantage for aerospace applications where size and weight are at premium.
I agree with several of his opinions, many in the Android community cargo cult opinions from influencers in the Android team, sorry Developer Advocates, without any thoughts of how real they happen to be.
Sometimes a different word is the wrong word.
This one? [1]

Beware, it's a review so there are possible spoilers.

[1] https://sfbook.com/quantum-radio.htm
Honest question — how else would you describe dropping a nuclear bomb each on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities full of civilians, causing "between 129,000 and 226,000" deaths (source: Wikipedia)? Those were not military targets.
Urban dwellers in America isn’t a dense city. It’s a loose collection of smaller cities all over the place. The US census defines urban as having 5,000 people in an area.
"make sure all windows updates are installed"

"Update your drivers"

"Have you tried a clean install?"
Indeed, instead they decided to be an NGO that does a browser as side project.
> we reject both open core and copyleft, because in our view they both overly restrict access to tech and knowledge.

If that's really the only reason they rejected copyleft, then they could dual-license all of their stuff, either under a truly FOSS copyleft license or the non-free but eventually-permissive thing they use exclusively today.
The Sensor of the 'Big-Sky' Camera
This is the sensor for the custom camera used to film content for The Sphere - a 316MP sensor capable of shooting HDR at 120FPS. The single CMOS chip is about the size of a 3.5" floppy. Technical paper at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/20/8383
Yes, I drove a model X on a road trip before.

Hated the yoke turn signal.
White evangelical idealogy is definitely part of why the USA does what it does (I grew up in it and can vouch it is very real), but it's not the whole thing. The democratic party doesn't depend on white evangelicals as a voting block, but most democrat politicians are still very vocal in their support for Israel (with maybe some lip service about also sending aid to Palestine).

The USA generally is unpopular in the Middle-east, but Israel is a very strong and strategic foothold in that part of the world for the USA. Likewise, Israel is also very unpopular in the region, so they welcome any resources they can get. With all that being the case, it is mutually beneficial for the two countries, especially militarily.

And lest anyone misunderstand where I'm coming from, I believe almost anything that is beneficial to USA military interests is probably bad.

Vox has a good high level summary of the history here: https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23916266/us-israel-suppor...
This is not universally true. The last grant I had with a pure research non-profit, my state university had a markedly lower overhead rate, as well as far more flexibility in lowering it (if a sponsor pre-specifies a lower rate, we almost always accept that).
What you're referring to is called "Collective Punishment" and it's a literal war crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment
The voice generation is fantastic, sounds like a real person. The follow up, context specific question the AI ends with really keeps the conversation going. One thing I discovered is that even if you pause the conversation, it’s still listening and will take into consideration things said then.
Burning Man 2024: Curiouser and Curiouser
I agree OP could have been more elaborate, but the main takeaway is that goroutines still cost at least 50% that of normal threads (though this needs to be verified in normal servers as well, not just smartphones). With goroutines, though usually supported by runtime systems (e.g., in Go), applications are responsible to manage tasks (e.g., HTTP requests) in order to harvest goroutines benefits, whereas this is easier with threads.

Edited for clarification.
Oh, interesting. Thanks, I'll look at that. Unfortunately, caddy was not an option I could have used here. :/ But it's still interesting and I didn't know it could do that. :)
So all those blank spots in the page are ads? uBlock Origin and NoScript, thank you!
QUIC requires the initial handshake packets to be at least 1200 bytes, and sets the anti-amplification limit of 3x [0]. This means that the server can typically send up to 3600 bytes in response (unless the client's handshake message exceeds one packet, which usually only happens if there is a post-quantum key share in it). 3600 bytes is usually enough, unless your certificate chain is too large, in which case you'd need to compress it. [1] is a nice overview of the problem.

(full disclosure: I worked on some of this stuff)

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#name-address-v...

[1] https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-handshake-tls-compression-c...
Cameras are used to scan analog film. I have used it in the past, it works perfectly and there is no way for you to tell it was scanned this way.

But here is an alternative:

You pass an image through a lens, you take photo from the camera. Now, having the input original AI-generated image and photo with the artifacts you calculate what changes your camera introduces. You reverse it to know what needs to be modified in original image to get photo exactly as you want. If one pass does not suffice, you do multiple passes.

Yes, it is easy, as in a CS or math student can do it.
For those who want to read it https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-system...
Speaking of Orlan-10, its manufacturer is ZALA Aero Group.

https://www.sensusq.com/blog/sensusq-analysis-on-the-zala-42... Son of the de facto owner/ceo of the company currently works at UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. UN is so useless its not even funny.
Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Honest contextual answer:

.. a rush job to test two different designs for a new weapon, snuck in before the very same cities were destroyed much more cheaply with conventional heavy explosives and incideriaries, just as 72 Japanese cities had already been destroyed.

That answer because you asked about the nuclear bombs rather than the total destruction of complete cities in the European and Japanese theatres.

You can compare the death toll from the Tokyo firebombings to that in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, you can look up the names of the other 71 cities destroyed and you can find the full list of planned targets (now long forgotten save for H & N) in the archives.
That's a very expensive message. Potlach as advertising really only worked within limits.
"you may not buy non-instrumentation computers"

This will come as a shock to the three laptops, one desktop, one server and five cluster nodes I have purchased on various grants.

Also the "kickback" as you put it (aka indirect cost returns) vary wildly both between and within universities. For example, we get zero indirect cost returns, but do get money back for unallocated spending if we bring in a higher percentage of our salary than we are obligated to.
It’s surprisingly used a bit more in Europe than the US. You can look at AdaCore’s users/case studies to get a brief overview of industries using it.
Interesting article!

>"Now, with an assist from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, funded by the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, which supports visionary innovations from diverse sources, Walker’s decades-old vision is coming to fruition."

Didn't know about NIAC before reading this. It sounds like a great group of people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Institute_for_Advanced_Co...
How it works: https://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html
Let's not give Elon any more things to ruin.
I think it comes from Einstein whose Gedanken Experiments lead to the discovery of relativity. Einstein came from a German-speaking country.

So what the authors are saying is "We're basically doing a similar thing as Einstein did". Jargon is to be avoided but this is more like a tribute to the great physicist Einstein.
What amuses, and irritates, me is that industry frequently projects their own system onto academia.

They get incensed at the idea of overhead - but don't recognize that we're not legally allowed to have a profit margin.
I actually just watch this talk last night She is an absolutely fantastic explainer for these complex concepts, her video about splines was also hugely illuminating
> Early on it was among the best of Chrome-cousins and I’d just leave it as the default browser on new Windows installs

Yes! I remember installing the leaked version before the official launch and being really impressed on how fast it was. The UI was also a welcome change. But over time they've added so many unwanted features. It just feels so bloated and slower than chrome now.
To help clear up the disagreement: the difference I had in mind is that things like peanut butter and PEG cannot adapt to escape the immune response. Viruses and bacteria can. Antibodies against them can be detected after an infection, but they might not be effective at all.
> None of this would be an issue if ISPs actually dropped UDP packets. They should run at a lower QoS by design. After all, the UDP spec explicitly calls out that it's unreliable. Yet IRL nobody drops them, ever, except during mitigation.

There's a difference between unreliable best-effort and "just throw out packets indiscriminatly".

> Just drop them already. It's been decades.

... Decades since what? UDP is still very much in use
Are we sure this wasn't posted 8 days late?
> people who advocate for improved social services also seem to uncannily be opposed to any sort of criminal punishments at all.

I've never once met anyone who felt that way. I'd actually like to have the chance. People might not want criminals tortured, might not want people imprisoned unnecessarily, might not want people arrested for things that should never have been crimes in the first place, but I'm pretty skeptical that there's any substantial number of people who don't want to see serial killers kept away from the public or who feel that all crimes should go unaddressed entirely.
Corollary: and then rewritten in Rust. Right?
Given very few tenure-track faculty are making $150K, it's more like "A 85K salary has a ticking clock - and considers themselves lucky to have it - wherein if they don't meet some fairly steep performance goals, they are automatically fired."
The history of the electric car – and what it says about the future of transport
TIL HTC Dream was called T-Mobile G1 in the States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
Why not both? Adults are no less depressed/anxious about being powerless to fix the environment, but they do have power over their children...
Distinction between library and framework has nothing to do with how much stuff they do. The difference is - as the parent comment said - inversion of control. Can you create React component and take full control of component lifecycle outside of React rendering loop? - if yes, then you can call it a library.

I think React doc, by calling Next a framework, is referring to a set of practices and protocols. But different usage of same nomenclature in the same discipline is very common.
Yes. Currently wrist blood pressure monitors must be level with the heart in order to be accurate. Can an unlevel measurement be corrected somehow? Would make the device much easier for patients to use. A lot of people don't know they need to hold it at the same level as the heart.
Fax me the address of his magic mushrooms supplier. Potent stuff, I want some!
This - my university is actually a fairly lean organization that's continually pushed more and more administrative burden onto faculty.

A lot of people like hand waving and saying "Administrators", but like the idea that most regulations are written in blood, there are tangible reasons for most administrative positions. Even the admins I don't like and I think are a waste of space are that way because of them, and I can envision a useful person being in their place.
(a cartoon on the web somewhere:)

What do we want? Time-Travel!
When do we want it? Doesn't matter!
A speaker is a microphone in the same way that a bicycle is a motorbike.
As far as I understood, it's just a balloon with a reflective coating from the north pole down to some latitude.
Because nothing happened since 1894?
It's also expensive, because lab start up costs money. The cost of a faculty recruitment in the sciences can be well into the hundreds of thousands.