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If launch #8 blows up your launch tower, you do in fact have a launch cadence problem.

For the naive math to work, you need to build 21 launch pads, etc.
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The sky is not one color and changes color depending on weather, sun, and global location.
Presumably the same captcha nonsense.
Reverse Engineering RollerCoaster Tycoon [video]
In a way it is (and also a humanity problem).

It would be great if a bunch of car parkings could be converted to secure bike storage spots.
I agree Rust lowers the bar to write low-level performant code (especially considering that it was always harder to write correct C than, say, correct Ada) but I don't think it's always necessary to write code in non-garbage-collected for decent performance. We just need to use garbage collected programming languages that are statically typed, don't rely on a runtime on the host computer (e.g. the JVM), are memory safe and have predictable performance characteristics. All I can think of are Swift, OCaml, and Standard ML. In Go, your program causes a segmentation violation if it dereferences a null pointer, so I won't call it completely memory-safe, but it's still an improvement in abstraction compared to C while still providing performance.
I agree with this. I finally bit the bullet and bought a bunch of MoCA adapters for my house. In practice I don't get the full 2.5 gigabit speed, but I do get about 1.7. Good 'nuf for my needs, for sure.
Go play Star Ocean, Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Earthbound, G.O.D. Mezame yo
and Pokémon Crystal (an enhanced one), or some good Pokémon Red/Firered romhack.

With these you played most of the tropes of the genre.
Remember the one with a camera they wanted you to keep in the bedroom to help you find the right thing to wear or some nonsense. Madness.
>Security of my calculator..?

I could upload a "Calculator" application that looks harmless, and even functions as a calculator, but actually steals your GPG keys and logs keyboard input. With a sandbox this would not be possible (in theory).

A "calculator" app isn't really unique here, it can be malicious just as well as anything else could be.

You do not want "apps" to be able to do this at all!

A calculator shouldn't really have access to many things anyways, ideally only access to things it requires to function.
State of AI Development in 2023
Okta Security Breach: 134 Clients Impacted, Including Cloudflare and 1Password
That's such a cool idea. Do you then prove it is the formula you need, or do you just assume that if it matches for 10 terms it's probably the formula?

A math professor I had in college, Dave Kelly, had a trick where he'd show a seemingly reasonably-behaved sequence, explain where it came from, then show that the rest of the sequence was absurd -- like, it would be exponential for a while and then zero, or increase arithmetically for a while and then become undefined, etc. I wish I had taped that.
Talking about physical devices, I see you mention tablets in public places. Would you make them eye-catching, so people come up to them, or hidden, to be spooked by someone's stare?
There is an interesting project in Vilnius & Lublin that just shows a livestream on what's on the other side (it's still up today) https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22460964
Curating and presenting facts is a form of narrative and is not at all objective.
You can only go so far before you defeat the main purpose of the 30-year mortgage, which is to allow retirees to pay the house off and be able to retire on a smaller nest egg because they only have to pay property tax and maintenance.
I’m saying that advertisers don’t want to go near a business that caters to the modern version of “conservatives”. Look at the type of ads that you get on Newsmax, Redstate and FoxNews’ talk shows.

By modern “conservatives”, I’m not talking about the Reagan/Bush/McCain/Romney type of conservative who are now out of favor by the Republican Party.
Why wait? You can get good deals on the second hand market now.
And,

> In just five years, $6 billion was invested in renewable energy — the equivalent of 12% of Uruguay’s GDP.

Any country that invests 12% of its GDP in something over five years is probably going to produce some impressive results!
It's arguably not a sympathy strike - Tesla employees are not striking in Sweden. So it's more a form of political expression. So in the US it would probably fall under a different set of rules.
Sure, but the CO2 from burning wood goes into the atmosphere right now. The CO2 from decomposing wood goes into the atmosphere over time, sometimes even over the span of years, depending on environmental conditions.

And, regardless, it's not like we only burn wood that's starting to decompose. Quite the contrary.
Or maybe that's a large neon sign that we should fix those, too?

Why isn't it a sustainable career path to be an artist or photographer or musician or writer or open source contributor? (Outside of the lucky 1% or so at the top of those crafts, of course.)

Why are creative pursuits so much harder to make a sustainable wage on in our society? Why do we expect most of them to be unpaid hobbies? Why do we expect the arts and crafts that are the fruits of their labor to start at "cheap as free" unless they work to be insanely talented and are lucky enough to win corporate sponsorship/patronage?

I don't have good answers either, but there are a lot of questions of what actually are we valuing about our use of our labor here, as a society, in general, across the board.
Starship is going to deliver Tesla cars to Sweden.
Yeah, this is what annoys me with a lot of the fanatics. If your carrot is apparently so good, then why do you need the stick? Almost nobody has a problem with building walkable neighborhoods and "15 minute cities", what they have a problem with is the direct attempts to just make driving worse rather than making the alternatives better. Frustrating cars is a goal loudly and proudly declared (hence the name of that sub), then suddenly turned round and called a "conspiracy theory" when someone dares to say they don't like it. That phrase seems to have made a comeback to be the thought-terminating cliché and shunning-smear of the 2020s thus far

The whole attitude is just completely elitist, thinking that they know what people want better than they do themselves, and calling them all manner of names for being impertinent enough to hold an opinion of one's own rather than yielding to their betters
Quoting another user from an adjacent topic[0]; I for myself believe in 1., it seems generative AI tools is slowly becoming popular as lesser substitute to human arts, wherever there has to be data but any noise will do. No one listened to low-effort Text-to-Speech content pre-AI, some did for high-effort TTS content, and in neither case it was because the quality of synthesis was bad or good.

> I think Max Tegmark said there's 3 main camps of people talking about AI:

> 1. The people who think AI won't really work (at least in some fundamental way - it might make some stochastic melody but it won't have any creative spark to it).

> 2. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be great.

> 3. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be terrible.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38289548
These system is a civil rights disaster that needs to be torn down. If you can keep fighting it, continue.

I'm never going to get effective treatment, essentially due to doctors that wanted to bring a shitty attitude to the workplace.

In other words, I've literally never even been given the first line treatment.
The largest single-site solar farm just came online
A 'corporate entity' is just a group of people. Those people absolutely have emotions.
There is something subtly nostalgic and pleasant with how that notice is written. (The old-fashioned style.)
I think a lot of the special sauce with the Half Life games is their "Show don't tell" approach to game design.

You load up the game, watch an intro (for games after HL1) and boom you're in the game. Nothing is going to appear on your screen beyond your HUD except for one time tips when acquiring a new weapon and chapter titles when progressing to a new level. Everything happens in real time and everything always happens from the POV of the player. There are no cut scenes, there are no cinematic transitions, and the player's POV is never intercut with cameras/external perspectives.

It makes the games feel grounded and more cinematic, IMO. Its a game design language that really puts the onus on the player to witness the story and game for themselves. When I play a Half-Life or Portal game, I feel like I'm discovering the story as I play, while other games often feel like I'm being presented or shown a story as I play. The execution is more nuanced than that, but the game's simplicity makes it difficult to focus on anything other than the story and world within the game.

When you look at the stories of each Half-Life game, each game tends to follow the same structure with the same kind of plot points. But for me, it never feels repetitive because the experience of witnessing the story is different for each game. Of course Half-Life isn't the only game that does this and this of course isn't the only reason why Half-Life has been enshrined as one of the GOATs.

The underlying content of the game, its aesthetic, the textures and models, sound design and score, voice acting, ect. all are great in Half-Life, but I wouldn't say that Half-Life is the best at any of these things. I also wouldn't say the game's narrative is the best of the best either. Despite this it remains my all time favorite game franchise, possibly/probably because I grew up with it but also because the game does a fantastic job of using that underlying content to give little clues. Everything feels like it has a purpose, whether it is apparent in the moment or not.

But I am just a storyteller that happens to be a barely competent programmer with absolutely no experience in game development, so all of this is just my opinion based on my own experience!
This is about the Nov 3 Okta report

https://sec.okta.com/harfiles
Google in 2023: “Before we pull the rug out from under you, we’ll throw some packing peanuts down.”
A decade before Pokemon existed, I went to see the movie The Wizard, a Fred Savage vehicle that was basically a 2 hour Nintendo commercial. And in the lobby of the theater as I was leaving, there was a booth selling subscriptions for the brand-new Nintendo Power magazine. The first issue came with a free copy of Dragon Warrior for the NES.

So Nintendo was willing to bet big on JRPGs long before Pokemon came out.
> volumes traded you can easily see that they are a very small minority.

Not sure how volumes traded says anything about buy and hold investors. It could just be a single stock traded a billion times?
> anybody who thought hard work would get them ahead

That's another manifestation of the Labor Theory of Value, where what something is worth is proportional to the amount of labor that went into it.

This is false. Value is only tangentially related to the labor input. Just because you work hard creating a song doesn't mean people will like the song and pay $$ for it.

Working smart is what matters. By that I mean working at creating things people want.
- The point of my anecdote is that Toronto is a wonderful place to live, with and without a car, and you're capable of describing cars in Toronto as a "disaster" you need a sense of proportion.

- Life without a car in Toronto is tolerable if you live downtown because it's a big, kind-of-dense city. Buying a car makes it much better.

- Cars unlock a huge amount of economic activity - employees and customers can now reach many more businesses, and haul more stuff back and forth, much faster than walking/cycling/bussing. More people, more stuff, more quickly = bigger economy. This truth of this is obvious and is independent of how US municipalities fund their highway maintenance, whether people live in suburbs or not, or your personal opinion.

Buy a car. I promise you'll love it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards
did an ai write this
React Components for the (Google) Maps JavaScript API
The Russian rouble was not free floating prior to the crisis. They tried to defy the iron triangle and paid for it. This is not a problem for the USA, since other currencies are denominated in terms of the dollar.

The reason it would be impossible for the US to default is that the US is not significantly in debt. Most of the federal debt is held domestically, meaning by the US. You can't be in debt to yourself.
I feel, if you use a pre-trained model to do these things without knowing the set intersection of the test and that dataset, makes it very tough to know weather inference is in the transitive closure of generated text the models were trained on or weather they really improved.

There was another approach to grounding LLMs the other day from Normal Computing the other day: https://blog.normalcomputing.ai/posts/2023-09-12-supersizing... in which they use Mosaic but they also did not mentioned that this was actually done.

Sentient or not, I feel there should be a standard on aggressively filtering out overlap on training and test datasets for approaches like this.
Is the Stanford Review known for an (American) "Conservative" bent? Other headlines like "Femininity, not Feminism" and "How Hamas Broke the Progressive Mind" lead me to believe that is the case. Perhaps this is a natural response to the general (American) "Liberal" bent of a college campus.
That's great, I really wanted something like that when I worked at Google because nobody allowed their machine to make noise and I'd miss the 'meeting indicator' and be late for meetings. Started making one but with much more grandiose and expensive design :-). So impressed you got this done and on the market!
You can run Half Life on 64-bit MacOS (including ARM64) using Crossover. It uses Rosetta and Wine.

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/half-lif...
I don't get the strong impression that e-readers are really trying to compete here, though. It seems much more in the _tablet_ space, where colorful photos (and additional interactivity, sometimes) are much closer to the physical experience of a paper magazine.
This has been my lifelong struggle. People prefer to feel better, and that’s just reality. So how can I fuse good real things with good real feelings.
I was clicking around like mad, nothing happened and I gave up
HFT crypto trading.
I tried clicking on everything, I just gave up lol
Well you're welcome! I figure it's a relatively tiny effort to digitize these compared to the work that went into producing them in the first place. It's really satisfying.
I'm curious why a crygenic fuel is harder to transfer in space than something like kerosene? Space is cold, so my naive idea is that a crygenic fuel is easier to keep liquid (non-frozen).
We can do polynomial regression of data sets that looks equally plausible, but it's not real data.
I don’t think you’re gonna make it my guy
By "underlying rules" I meant not rules of Go, but a detailed, commented algorithm that can win against human. Not a bunch of weights without any explanation.
Azure Database Fleet Manager
Love this. I do wonder how the bug fixes will affect speedrun attempts, and if people will start using this for speedrunning or if they'll stay on the prior version.
I've usually been able to get that in email form.
I like the idea of Rust, its technical merits etc, but good lord this language has some crazy weird and intimidating syntax. I read the code snippets and am just confused as heck.

Did it really have to look like this?
I think my biggest annoyance with Rocket is that testing seems like an afterthought. I don't think the documentation even mentions testing forms.

I also need to hack around a bit to ship templates, since I want to distribute my app (with a Rocket server in it) as a single executable.
>it's probably 99% the web

I thought it has been reasonably well-established that ChatGPT was trained significantly on pirated textbooks?
Remember when video games were cool?
Be the change you want to see then. Logistics demand comes from the consumer
I think there's a small difference in intonation
Typical swedes. It is probably the most woke country in the world... but they are paying a price for that now.
No matter what the goal was, it remains that other players would have jumped in if there wasn't the legal impediments. But such regulation provided a moat in which they were able to build their monopoly.

Same goes for Microsoft. Everyone and their brother would have released their own 'Windows' if regulation weren't there to disallow it. Again, that regulation offered a moat which allowed them to establish their monopoly.
Please don't. Wikipedia long abandoned neutrality. They aren't the bearers of truth.
You don’t need to own a car to do this.

The simple fact is, public transport in most places sucks.

I’ve moved to Zürich, and there is no way I’ll drive a car willingly again. Taking the tram everywhere is extremely liberating.
It's unplayable in Rosetta because of the x87 everywhere. Like sub-20 fps unplayable.
I love the fact that on the games requirements on the Steam page it still says it runs on Windows XP when in fact all support has been cut for long now, leaving out many of us who got into Steam on the first place because we either wanted a legal digital copy of our physical collection or because many physical game keys WOULD also activate a digital license. I still keep Windows 8 because it's still supported on Steam but that too will change in january 1st next year. The irony is even sweeter, given that this update should very well work on period correct machines (which again, many of us still keep running) but alas, you'll still locked out.

We'd gladly trade all the distractions the client forces down our throat (stickers, trading cards, avatars and all of that stuff) for the ability to single play the games we legitimately bought. But that's not an option we have, unlike say GOG, who also doesn't support old OS but at least gives us the possibility to download the games. I'd even concede some form of DRM that doesn't involve the Steam client but naaa, "the h4x0rs will get into your XP box that you keep solely for retro gaming and shut off the world. you must upgrade, re-buy, expend!"

Anyway, happy birthday Mr. Freeman.
I didn't say it was cheap.
This is right, but maintainers themselves often forget. They don't enforce this. Their little thing became very important and they became a rock star, so they carry the world on their shoulders. They respond to feature requests that are out of scope originally. They let any and every PR in. Maintainers often manage to do things with their project that turn them into bahemoths and support large industry and find themselves stuck.

More maintainers need to take the "no guarantee of fitness for purpose" part of their license more seriously. Don't fall for the temptation to be everything for everyone. Don't cave to social pressure.
Thank you!

Credit to Lukas Wiesehan:
https://lw.works/en
Or Alyssa, Alicia, sometimes Amitava...
> most animals are embodied but do not possess propositional knowledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfl7kasjZc

There are a quite a few videos with the same reaction. There does seem to be something going on.
Yes, it's one of the most prominent US right-wing student newspapers. Peter Thiel was a cofounder
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High-impact reactive armour activated.
Atmospheric contaminant sensors activated.
Vital sign monitoring activated.
Automatic medical systems engaged.
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Have a very safe day.
There was a rumor about ChatGPT using libgen for training data, if true, I find it hard to believe Google's legal team would touch that with a long stick.
Cheers. That was thanks to Lukas: https://lw.works/en
China, through MIC 2025, is clearly looking for an inwards economy centered around its large population, as opposed to an export oriented "factory of the world" economy (perhaps anticipating isolation in the event of invading Taiwan). The West didn't want that happening, hence they protested bringing those jobs back to their shores.
I perhaps overpaid the simplicity of the early pi’s but the point I was was making that you missed was more of comparison between the pi4 and the earlier models. Thanks.
In a time when a more and more people can't spell "too," it seems ambitious to school them on "less" vs. "fewer."

But when I do try to explain why "less" and "fewer" are not interchangeable, I usually just say, "Do you want fewer syrup on your pancakes?"

Then there's "transition" as a verb: Do you illumination a room when it's dark?

We can go on and on, but we can't leave this one out: "would of." I always call that out in any comment forum. This just can't be let go.

And now, Weird Al has some words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Is it AI, or just a look up table?
I mean don't get your hopes up too far, it's gonna be a minute :D But I'll pass along what I find when I can!
No, they couldn't. One person's savings is another person's debt. If everyone tries to save then no one can; this is the paradox of thrift.
Star History: the missing GitHub star history graph of GitHub repos
Why invest in second hand equipment now when new, warranted, more efficient versions will be the same price in a few years?
FYI, the coupon code "hackernews" is only for 90% off.
Weird Al's latest movie is a mess, but so surreal I keep remembering it months after watching it. It as if the UHF movie carved a niche in my brain for his weird movies.
I didn't say that top talent doesn't live in Mississippi, I just said you will get what candidates DO decide to live in Mississippi. If you want top talent, you have to advertise nationally, and be willing to pay the national rate. I live in a city that is quite poor for an employer that is quite large. They pay slightly better than average for the area except for their engineers and upper management, that goes to market rate because they are willing to hire the best available.
Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones [video]
> the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph

FWIW, I've been following the writings of Stewart Rhodes' son, and boy howdy do his descriptions of his father fit this noun phrase...

On the lighter side, I found the "cosplaytriots vs weebs" of https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow amusing.
Yes, ok I agree with this.
Are you sure? Portal 2 had no issues on my M1.

Half Life 2 also runs well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fXgo
Well... I retrofitted a whole UK house with Cat6A, about 20 runs, longest run about 25m. The walls were dot and dab construction so quite a bit harder than drywall, but a lot easier than solid. I had my electrician brother to help for a weekend to do the cable runs. It was an entire two solid days of work just to do the runs, and this is with someone with the right tools and experience plus me having already planned it carefully. It would have taken me a week to do it alone. After that it was a full week of evenings terminating everything at both ends and another couple of weekends filling a repairing the walls. Definitely not for the faint hearted!

Worth it, though, and would do it again.