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> For normal construction tasks, I don't care one bit about this one bit. And you shouldn't either.

I agree, and I'd go as far as to say that the author is a bit confused and showing some confirmation bias. Let me explain.

Engineered wood indeed creates elements from imperfect timber that are free from defects and exhibit the same engineering properties, if not better.

This has absolutely zero to do with old vs new growth trees. It is exclusively due to the need to maximize the amount of wood you can take out of a tree. Old growth trees might have more wood to pick and choose from, but nothing stops anyone from using the exact same techniques with timber from old growth trees.

The only reason why you don't see as much old growth trees in this process is the fact that there aren't that many anymore.

Another reason why you see new growth trees being used extensively in engineered wood products is that you can put together massive structural elements from smaller lumber elements, and they are far cheaper and plentiful.

There's a story on how the renovation of Oxford's dining halls required massive oak trees which were hard to come by, but it turned out those who built Oxford's dining halls had the foresight of planting oak trees when they built the structure. They did so because they knew the beams would eventually have to be renovated.

https://longnow.org/ideas/humans-and-trees-in-long-term-part...

With engineered lumber you do not need to plan centuries ahead to have your structural elements. You just build the elements you need from the timber you have at your disposal.
Firefox supports declarative shadow DOM too now!

There's a long-standing WHATWG feature request open for client-side includes here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791

And several userland custom element implementation, like https://www.npmjs.com/package//html-include-element

One of the cool things that you can do with client-side includes and shadow DOM is render the included HTML into a shadow root that has <slot>s, so that the child content of the include element is slotted into a shell implemented by the included HTML.

This lets you do things like have the main page be the per-page content and the included HTML be a heavily cached site-wide shell, and then another per-user include with personalized HTML - all cached appropriately.
>> A via ferrata is essentially rock climbing. It provides all of the same sensations,” says Michele Van Hise, managing partner at Zion Adventures, a guiding service and outfitter based in Springdale, Utah. Between 2018 and 2022, the company built three via ferratas near Zion National Park, including Shorty Town, which snakes up and down across a cliff suspended over the flowing water of Oak Creek.

I cannot express how strongly I am against this. The first rule of most every outdoor activity is "take only pictures, leave only footprints". That applies for everything from scuba diving to mountaineering. Hammering in rods and installing ladders on otherwise perfectly climbable rocks is just wrong. There is a time and place for fixed protection, and regular climbers have huge debates about this, but installing ladders so people can more easily "climb" in hiking boots doesn't meet anyone's standard. I've known many climbers who, if seeing any of this, would actively destroy such installations if anywhere close to existing routes. And in Zion? I guess it isn't halfdome or dawn wall but this is still a climbing mecca that that should be left unaltered.

I was once at a very popular toproping area when an army unit of about eight people showed up. They were about to hammer pitons into the cracks to "practice". The word when quickly around the crag and they were basically run out of town by a hundred climbers. You don't damage rock casually, not established climbing routes.
Right, that's not going to happen though for pretty obvious reasons.

Governmental incentives and carbon taxes can make more jobs in CO2, but expecting individual citizens to solve a collective action problem is doomed.

At the same time, I think it is fair to ask people to look at what they're doing for/to the world and decide if that's something that fits their values. 300k salary is nice, but almost certainly not something you need
"whose" money matters here. It's VC money, mostly. Well-capitalized sophisticated investors, not voters and pension funds.

If Microsoft loses 30 billion dollars, it ain't great, but they have more than that sitting in the bank. If Sequoia or Ycombinator goes bankrupt, it's not great for lots of startups, but they can probably find other investors if they have a worthwhile business. If Elon loses a billion dollars, nobody cares.
Confidence serves as a cornerstone for personal development
To my ear, the octave ukulele sounds a little like a cello
Few people know about an instrument called the "octave uke," but to my ear it sounds as pretty as a cello.
The 2019 Microsoft paper referenced is here.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/we-need-a-safer-syst...
An npm compatibility layer doesn't sound like it has anything to do with TypeScript? I'm assuming that you can use JavaScript anywhere you can also use TypeScript.
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No, it would be much more difficult to control. You can buy kevlar tire liner to reduce the likelihood of punctures though.
It all depends on how you fall, what you hit and when, and what position your body is in at various stages of this.

If you spend any time on a via ferrata, it’s pretty easy to see where the answers to one or more of these will be ‘not great’, and sometimes ‘really bad’.

For instance, hitting a rung on the way down. Or getting an appendage caught behind something.

But unlikely you’ll die.

And honestly, you shouldn’t fall unless you screwed something up pretty bad to begin with, which is your primary protection anyway.

You’re literally climbing a ladder, this isn’t wilderness trad climbing or developing some new route on loose rock.
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Same here, I gave up trying to use a spade bit for drilling that old wood. It’s impact driver and speed bit or auger bits, or bust. Nothing quite like the smell of old lumber!
Well Elon was forced to buy Twitter that way
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I think the most profound insight I've come across while studying this particular topic is the insight that information theory ended up being the answer to conserving the 2nd law with respect to Maxwell's demon thought experiment. Not to put too fine a point, but essentially the knowledge organized in the mind of the demon, about the particles in its system, was calculated to offset the creation of the energy gradient.

I found the thinking of William Sidis to be particularly thought provoking perspective on Noether's benchmark work, in his paper The Animate and the Inanimate he posits--at a high level--that life is a "reversal of the second law of thermodynamics"; not that the 2nd law is a physical symmetry, but a mental one in an existence where energy reversibly flows between positive and negative states.

Indeed, when considering machine learning, I think it's quite interesting to consider how the organizing of information/knowledge done during training in some real way mirrors the energy-creating information interred in the mind of Maxwell's demon.

When taking into account the possible transitive benefits of knowledge organized via machine learning, and its attendant oracle through application, it's easy to see a world where this results in a net entropy loss, the creation of a previously non-existent energy gradient.

In my mind this has interesting implications for Fermi's paradox as it seems to imply the inevitibility of the organization of information. Taken further into my own personal dogma, I think it's inevitable that we create--what we would consider--a sentient being as I believe this is the cycle of our own origin in the larger evolutionary timeline.
Oh man, this really strikes home for me:

Last month we had to shell out close to $1k to replace all four tires when a large (>10cm) nail punctured one. Costco guy said you had to change all of them, I didn't't believe him but after research found out that if you have some mileage on your tires, you can't just change one (actually there was mentioned of reducing the grooves of the new tire to match the old ones but that sounded error prone).

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The application of Noether's theorem in this case refers only to the energy integral shown (KE = ME - GPE for 2D Kinetic Mechanical and Gravitational Potential Energies) over time. It's really only for that particular 2 body 2 dimensional problem.

More generically in 3 dimensions a transformation with 3 translational 2 rotational and 1 time independence would provide conservation of 3 momenta 2 angular momenta and 1 energy.
Most people simply don't understand what non profit means. It doesn't and never meant the entity can't make money. It just means that it can't make money for the donors.

Even with open AI, there is a pretty strong argument that donors are not profiting. For example, Elon, one of the founders and main donors won't see a penny from OpenAI work with Microsoft.
I don't need any of these things shipping with my default distro.
"You have a bunch of files in folders and you want the AI to tell you what exactly?"

For example: "show me the folder(s), where my old University projects are stored"

"Sort this folder into programming projects, general notes, pictures, music, videos and install files"

"Find me the folder where I made notes about a novel sorting algorithm"
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The statement of claims is full of damages. It claims that Musk donated 44 million dollars on the basis of specific claims made by the plaintiffs as well as the leasing of office space and some other contributions Musk made.
I do not think the situation is remotely comparable to the possibility of the banking system collapsing. Banks and other financial institutions exert leverage far beyond their market caps.
> In physics, the conserved quantity isn't always time. Invariance over time translation is specifically conservation of energy.

That's not what i meant.

When you talk about "conservation of angular momentum", the symmetry is invariance over rotation, but the angular momentum is conserved _over time_.
The "source" for The Verge article is a sourceless hit piece. There's no actual source claiming he tried to take over OpenAI in 2018 anywhere, besides "people familiar with the matter."
Depends on the sector, size and age of the corporation.

In crypto these kind of complex structures are fairly common ,FTX has some 180 entities. Real estate companies like evergrand have similar complexities.

Companies which do lot of acquisitions will have lot of entities and for accounting may keep them .

Consulting companies including the big ones have similar complex structures each business has their own partners who get a cut of the profits directly and pay only some back to the parent.

Hollywood also does such complex accounting for variety of reasons

Compared to peers in the AI space this is probably unusual, but none of them started as non profit . The only somewhat comparable analogy is perhaps Mozilla (nonprofit tech with huge for profit sub) they are not this complex, they also don’t have the kind of restrictions on founding charter /donor money like openAI does
Whenever I see a screw or nail in the street or parking lot, I always pick it up and naively hope that karma will prevent my tire from picking up one in another location.
Bumper crop of mosquito hawks in Houston too. Maybe it was the mild winter?
Yeah, it's his second/third try. OpenAI was already his way to "commoditize your complement" so that Tesla's AI division could catch up to DeepMind etc..

Now that this accidentally created something even more powerful (and Tesla's autopilot plans don't seem to be panning out), he's trying to stifle the competition so that xAI can catch up. SPOILER: They won't.
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India's Diaspora Effect: India's vast diaspora (2nd largest in the US) contributed to remittances of $125Bn+ in 2023. India stands at 4.4% of global services exports vs. 1.8% in goods exports with a 6.8% global IT market share

Private Markets:

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Stage-Specific Impact: Seed halved, early and late-stage funding fell by 2/3rd

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That is not what happened at all. Firefox never shipped HTML Imports.
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Microsoft's takeover of Mistral makes a lot more sense if this lawsuit has a chance to succeed.
> Jueves (Thursday) = Jupiter

Though in English it's Thor, a different god of thunder.
It is VC money pricing in the value of this enterprise to the rest of society.

More over, if capital markets suddenly become ways to just lose tons of money, that hurts capital investment everywhere, which hurts people everywhere.

People like to imagine the economy as super siloed and not interconnected but that is wrong, especially when it comes to capital markets.
Mozilla has been doing that for 20 years ?
Exactly!

I doubt solving people's problems is even 10% of the time government customer service spends talking to people. Letting them spend 50% actually solving people's problems would improve everyone's lives.
Someone just needs to look at how Google handled their tablet and watch strategy to know Google is not a trustworthy partner. Android tablets and Wear OS had so much potential, but Google squandered their opportunities. Very sad to see Fossil exiting the watch devices. And perhaps Samsung is the only big company out there that invests so much in Android for non smartphone/smart TV devices.

(And let's acknowledge that DeX is completely Samsung's work, and they really put a lot of work to make Android tablets usable.)
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I'm torn on this.

First google has been asleep and not contributing much to XR for several very important years.

Second meta's version of android (the vr shell is my focus) is an awkward pile of jank and fail. It doesn't feel well done in practical terms.

I like android and what facebook has done is just... bad android.

That said they've been helping moving forward in positive ways with openxr/webxr standards implementations work.

I look forward to a large pile of opensource being contributed to the larger XR community by things getting mainlined into android.

We'll see what google can manage these days with their samsung headset incoming.
Yeah, OpenAI basically grafted a for-profit entity onto the non-profit to bypass their entire mission. They’re now extremely closed AI, and are valued at $80+ billion.

If I donated millions to them, I’d be furious.
The FDA and USDA desperately need more funding and to have their duties sorted out. It's basically regulation by vibes.
Before 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and threatened to do so again in 2014.

I'm not sure what other country or bloc would ever accept the national security concept of "we can cut you off from energy at any time, to keep you aligned against that other guy" as something they're supposed to support.

Meanwhile the pipelines existed and can be configured to work the other direction, so the somewhat friendly relations at the time between Germany and russia could have secured gas supplies for Poland and Ukraine.

So "we'll cut you off when we want", "you're evil anyway" and "hey, don't bypass us", all at the same time. No, thanks.

That said, the "moral high ground" solution would have been to get rid of fossils earlier - which wasn't much of a talking point by the objectors to Nord Stream 2, except for the Green party.

Of course, Poland and Ukraine would have lost their leverage that way as well, while Germany would have lost the lever of economic relations with russia, so that option might have been even more fragile for Eastern Europe.
That means the models still confabulate and make other errors, and for many cases it's a problem, so there should be solutions to control model output quality
Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? (2022)
This would be the case of Mozilla (The Mozilla Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation)
Yup! Mozilla uses this very structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
I assume if there is a jury trial then actually the fact that Musk has his own for-profit AI company now could play a huge part. Even if for some reason they tell the jury to "disregard that fact" or something.

I feel like we now have a reasonable expectation that his AI effort becomes open source. Not that I actually expect it, but seems reasonable in this context.
Is anyone seriously paying money to get to use the badge and put up a blog post on this site? Weird monetization strategy for something that's essentially no work in my opinion.
I assume this is because OpenAI committed to do certain things if and when they build AGI.