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> Musk is frustrated with government inefficiency

No, primarily Musk is frustrated with any requirement that he be accountable. Across the next four years his goals will be to reduce any accountability or transparency that applies to him and to maximize his profit.

Oligarchs always follow the same pattern.
When Republicans talk about states' rights, they only ever mean the rights they support.
This feature also greatly interests me, although I'm looking for a system that would allow to slightly alter the pronunciation of individual words. Is anyone aware of such a system?

Especially with TTS in a language other than English (but also with English), the pronunciation of certain words is sometimes jarringly wrong. Until TTS systems can compensate for this themselves, it would be great if it were possible for humans to use such tags to hint the system to pronounce better. Even if you can't specify the exact correction, but the TTS would just generate a 'different' sound, that could help.
HPV is a family of viruses. There are dozens and the vaccine targets, I think, nine. So, that probably was HPV, but it probably was not one of the members of the family which the vaccine targets, the vaccine is focused on the sexually transmitted variants, since these are associated with Cervical cancer in particular, and several other nasty cancers, plus the genital warts.
It's accurate to say Firefox beat IE in that it freed the lock IE had on the web. By 2001 the majority of web browsers was IE6. Many parts of the web were being locked down behind IE/Windows specific features like ActiveX plugins and VBScript. Lots of intranet interfaces were built around IE6. It became as much a business staple as Microsoft Office.

By the end of the 90s both Microsoft and Netscape had kind of given up on browser engines being performant and relegated complex/demanding UIs to native plug-ins. Anyone not wanting to use plug-ins (Java included) to make a web app had to use frame-based SSR which was very tricky to get right. Even when the design and implementation were good performance of the browser sucked.

Firefox doubled down on performance of the rendering and JavaScript engines. Combined with XHR it was actually possible to make good web apps without using plug-ins of frame-y kludges. By not supporting ActiveX Firefox was also immune to whole classes of exploits ravaging IE at the time.

Firefox breaking IE's hold on the web set the foundation for the rise of Chrome. Breaking IE's hold on the web meant at release WebKit on iOS and Android was a useful browser engine that could handle real websites rather than a bunch of broken plug-in icons or being limited to WAP/"Lite" sites like all previous mobile devices.

A web requiring IE-only technologies like ActiveX and VBScript was never going to be accessible to mobile devices or non-Windows platforms.
Seems to me like it was low-hanging fruit that Apple (no pun intended) finally decided to pick. I imagine dropping to a BFU state will help curb possible brute force or physical access attacks. The relative security/ongoing improvements of iPhones/iOS have given LEOs a certain level of unjust paranoia whenever a new security feature is rolled out.
Alright, well I don't think I personally know anyone who has ended up with malware on their phone. I'm sure it could be better but it seems alright. I'm not gonna advise everyone I know to stress out about it by trying to have a high bar of trust and evaluate every app they wanna try only to have the exact same result they've had for years.

The advice is absolutely not the same as it's always been - it would be weird if the advice from the early aughts, when it was common to be affected by malware or viruses, was the same as the advice now when it's rare.
If you design a bridge that collapses in a way that could be anticipated, you screwed up. Software can fail in ways no one's thought of yet, as evidenced by us still finding new classes of bugs. And even when you write perfect software, it's impossible to know that it's going to evaluate correctly when built with an arbitrary compiler on an arbitrary OS running on an arbitrary hardware platform. Something perfectly fine on Clang/macOS/ARM might be busted on GCC/Linux/x86.

Engineers have to be responsible for their work. If you held software engineers to that same legal standard, the occupation would be sued out of existence within a year, even for people who are doing everything possible to do it right.
Absolutely metal and the person I would aspire to be.

I can't imagine a higher motivation to study and find a cure than to save yourself, with the possible exception of saving a loved one.

As other have mentioned, finding a cure for a specific case is easier and has less regulations than finding a general cure.
There are benefits to having a single writer connection (and multiple readers).

One is that you can get fairer and more efficient locking. The (interruptible) file lock APIs that SQLite uses lead to a lot of sleeping and retrying that wastes time, and is not very fair.

https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/07/19/sqlite-in-ruby-ba...

Another some APIs, like the backup API, work better if they can track writes, and (e.g.) backing up from the single writer connection helps there.
The circles are due to the pinhole camera effect I believe - during a partial eclipse of the sun by the moon the circles will have a disc cut out of them, similar to a hole in a sheet of paper. I've noticed this effect myself during a partial eclipse.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42090636
Man suffered a minor injury after being hit by drone propeller
Almost all open source, including some of the most prominent open source projects you can think of, do not make enough revenue to fund the full-time employment of one principal engineer.

Most of them would be grateful for a $12 donation.

Why do I use $12 as a benchmark? If you paid a single open source project $1 a month, you could fund their VPS hosting for year by paying $12.

If you paid $24, you could pay their domain lease and VPS hosting as a single benefactor.

Think of some of the most underfunded, most used open source projects you use on a daily basis, and please consider donating what you surely spend less on coffee in a month at least one time a year.

I'm not talking about open source projects that have their own foundation, or limited private company. I'm talking about the random open source contributor whose project you love and use daily who is just an individual. Maybe they don't even get enough attention on GitHub but they're in all honesty publishing something that people (you!) want.

I've published open source projects for 15 years, almost a majority of them now are discontinued or archived, but the ones that are still maintained have been for over a decade. And I have had the opportunity to have my work shared with many people, others are not so fortunate.

It's nearly a full-time job to market them, and mrdoob is right, you end up sacrificing a lot to publish these things.
https://angellaunch.com - Startup events which encourage developers to network and meet like minds :)
And the one time I have ever been to Houston, they were constructing that building and I couldn't see the Saturn V :(
For military drones, yes, this will certainly happen if it hasn't already.

I'd love to see some predictions on manufacturing robots intentionally killing someone for the greater good in a sort of Trolley Problem [1]. The theoretical potential of AI safety protocols getting misaligned and a robot deciding to sacrifice a human worker to save multiple lives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Or the the double the
....is this really a problem in a geostationary orbit?
So, if the ethical problem is not attempting self-treatment, but that publishing about self-treatment will lead others to make potentially dangerous choices ... then isn't the publishing process, and its selection bias for positive results really the problematic part? If we never hear about people who attempt self-treatment which then doesn't work, and we occasionally hear about people who were successful, and there's no larger systematic study, then people will get an unrealistic view of the chances of success.
The US exports a lot of cheese. $2.2B/year or ~5% of global trade.
Theability exists, what doesnt exist is a framework to amiliorate existing and future damage.

Fascism is rising precisely because its easisr to circle the wagons and allow famines and destruction to minimize the global population
Conversely, if you ban actually charging for last-attempt experimental research services, then those desperate people will only be left to seek:

1- Honest researchers who can't charge too much.
2- Unscrupulous quacks who will take all your money regardless of law.

With the second option being much more common due to incentives. If however you allow research facilities to take donations/payments to fund research related to a specific disease, then you will increase the incentive for legitimate companies, even if the odds are still low or close to 0.
I think it mistook a typo that didn't add a space after a sentence.
"Clojure in live sports television" by Christoph Neumann – Clojure Conj 2024
I am so disappointed in Amazon for their 1st gen Kindle Scribe. Part of the selling point was being able to write notes by hand, but the only method to get your notes off the Scribe is to email yourself a PDF.

Large size screen is nice for reading though.
I also got the vaccine at 44 (years later than it is recommended where I live in Europe), because:

- It targets multiple HPV strains, and even though I've been sexually active, I'm probably unlikely to have all of them, so there is some future protection

- It helps prevent reinfection

- There is evidence that it helps reduce the risk of progression to a cancerous state, which is also something that can happen for males

I didn't even bother to talk to a doctor, I just called a women's clinic, made an appointment, and paid for it myself. They were surprised, but super happy and supportive.

All three injections cost me the equivalent of 160 US$.
Home page of that arxiv paper: https://opencoder-llm.github.io/
For those in LA, there’s a related exhibit at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Definitely worth checking out if you haven’t been, the whole collection is a delight.
It’s beautiful, I love it
What companies would you say have world-class engineering now (2024)?
You’ll never be able to completely ban it, but you can probably make it hard enough to use that it will go back to a niche thing among kids the way internet forums were when I was in high school.
'Whatever You Want Ben' Inside Ben Horowitz's Relationship with the Vegas Police
Not definitive ≠ useless
Are you using s3 local cache? Do you have heavy writes? What type of s3 disk type, if any, are you using? (s3, s3_plain, s3_plain_rewritable)? Or are you just using the s3 functions.

Clickhouse is amazing but I still struggle getting it working efficiently on s3, especially writes.
Syntax-aware tools always have issues when a team extends the base language to fit their problem. Rust has macros. People started using "go generate" for stuff like early generics. Does Mergiraf take EBNF or plugins or does a team fork it to explain their syntax?
I don’t think so. I mean it’s not like I don’t have zoom
> You'd better not dare write your desktop application in HTML. What has this world come to???

Ok thats clear. But then ten sentences later:

> Of course, you aren't going to write your UI in C, only an idiot would do that. Instead, you want to write it in some kind of markup language.

Now, let me think of some markup language that is universally known and has at least some pretence to be about laying out information on a screen... Thats right, html.

The thing with UI frameworks in the 21st century of flying cars, AGI and rapidly approaching Singularity, is that its a stagnating mess.

There should be a nice, standardized, cross-platform, easy to get started and progressively expandable way to build high quality visual apps. For some elusive reason, we cant have good things.
Here is the paper itself:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53922-x
A great example of this would be the XZ backdoor, which never got commited to the source tree, but got implanted in the release tarballs, which were built on the attacker's systems
Why doesn't resonance always build to infinity? [video]
It's just a checkbox, not that hard.

I think you're greatly overestimating the appetite for (if not the ease of) filling out forms. The appeal of 'fill out a form so lapcat will talk to you' is very limited, even for an actual lap cat.

you should read the article before commenting.

This is aspirationaly right but it's not a realistic requirement for any kind of real messageboard. People can title-check, glance at, skim, read, carefully study, learn-by-heart, etc any article and respond to it in ways that, to you (or me, or whoever), appear dramatically at odds with any of the above. The checkbox, like the proverbial goggles, does nothing. You'll have a forum that works like open internet link-discussing forums already work except with an extra irritating, space-wasting checkbox.
Ancient Technology Makes Things Spin Fast [video]
I respectfully disagree. If you are taken to a hospital for medical evaluation, speakers would normally call that a medical issue, in plain English. None of this was routine or normal precaution—a point the article you linked emphasizes:

- "Normally, once medical personnel complete their preliminary assessment, crews are flown to shore on a helicopter, then board a NASA airplane for the flight back to Houston. Instead, the Crew-8 astronauts were taken to the hospital Friday morning."
Begging the question all the while Q.E.D.

Have currencies been a "net" benefit?
I don't see the issue or point of limiting profitabilit, what am I missing?

Here's the scenario I have in mind.

John has an uncommon cancer X with no cure.
John contacts Cancer R&D Corp.
John pays 80% of his life savings to R&D corp for research into his specific cancer X and provides himself as a test subject in the meantime.
R&D corp attempts to find a cure for the disease, if the mission fails and John dies, in the future if other patients with cancer X appear, they can take over from where they left.
Payment can be split into an upfront half for research and bonus paid upon a successful cure (or year of quality life milestones) to give incentives for actual success. So as to avoid companies from benefitting from never finding a cure.
> Frankly, I find it really, really dumb that everyone doesn't just implement Cocoa already, even if only in order to provide a lowest common denominator.

You mean all the other OS's reverse engineering Cocoa? That exists, more or less, in the form of GNUstep. There are good reasons why GNUstep isn't heavily used: it doesn't feel native anywhere but macOS, macOS apps tend to use a lot of OS APIs (e.g. Metal) that are outside Cocoa so just implementing Cocoa doesn't buy you much, Objective-C isn't that productive of a language by modern standards, etc.

More realistic, honestly, would be for everyone to implement Win32 as a lowest common denominator, which is kind of the world we live in already thanks to Wine.
no officer
Would it be illegal today to give people sugar pills sell them energy healing?
I wasted a whole day setting up ESP32 on MacBook M3, failed, and put the board in the garbage bin. Will never try it again!
Morality is cowardice in disguise.
Getting year 1 or 2 of medicine in, in addition to providing good general knowledge, would be a good insurance bet, if you ever, or a loved one has an uncurable disease, you can spend your life trying to cure it, and you have 1 or 2 years of advantage.

Pretty sure that studying a career with such a specific objective in mind will have a much more useful effect in hyperspecialized branches (so not Primary Care) than studying generally out of school and only picking your branch a couple of months before it is required. You absorb the general knowledge with in the context of your specialization.
I'm curious about the other side of the story too.

> My wife became a reality denier. Would the Illuminati let our marriage survive?
For more complex tasks, asking it to write in a more comfortable language for that task and then translate to target language helps. Example: if you ask Claude to write code that generates UDP datagram for mDNS in Swift, it will fail flat. But if you ask for C and translate, it can succeed.

BTW, Python is usually the more comfortable language.
Does this come from federal stockpiles? Earnest question; how logistics happen is intentionally obscured from the perspective of consumers.
1.3M views 15 years ago
Haven't read it myself, but heard about it many times. "The Body Remembers" ( https://www.amazon.com/Body-Remembers-Psychophysiology-Treat... )
Quantum Back-Action in Time-Series Processing
BorgBackup and restic have the CLI option `--exclude-caches`.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/create.htm...

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#excl...
Well fusion would be too exotic to be developed in this century unless there is some unbelievable breakthrough but it is very realistic that all the micro-nuclear-reactor research & development being invested into by datacenter giants now might power a spaceship someday a decade down the road?

(the engine development would also have to advance obviously but not implausible)
Sounds idiotic if you ask me.
Will likely be short listed for medal of honor and case dropped.
"A CDC study examining HPV prevalence among sexually active females aged 14 to 24 demonstrated no net change in overall HPV infection rates following the introduction of the vaccine."

Not all HPV strains cause cancer, so it's not surprising that a vaccine that targets cancer-causing strains would decrease the prevalence of those strains, and, as a side effect, increase the prevalence of other strains. This is not a bug, this is the whole point.
I have this set as an alias:

difft = -c diff.external=difft diff

I may add a similar alias for delta
It’s not just that older people are more likely to have HPV but also there’s significantly less time for it to progress to cancer at that age.

45 may be young enough to be worth it if the treatment was free, but at ~1,000$ the net benefit is more questionable.
Any company that works with invoices from a number of suppliers. We had to solve this problem at DigiBuild, where every supplier seemed to have totally unique invoice formats (and even the same product names could differ between two suppliers.)
Volatility Laundering: How not to lie to yourself about your career
making a wild guess on the nationality of every author of this paper (1), and observing the number of authors, and observing the velocity and volume of similar papers.. it seems a pattern of "English language as a service to automated programming environments" appears to be very useful and relevant for people (nations?) that are wholly and firmly not English speaking..

(1) is M-A-P or INFtech dot ai a well-known institutional affiliation?
Exactly as xnornet was doing way back in 2016 - shadow 32bit weights, quantized to 1 bit during the forward pass.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05279

I personally have a pretty negative opinion of the bitnet paper.
Depends on the enclave. I don't know Apple's, but the ones I worked with would wipe secure data on a firmware update.
Im currently using the ChatBox desktop app which I quite like. You can setup as many chats as you want with different providers (openai, claude, google etc) and different custom instructions. I can move between different providers for a 2nd opinion and also easily setup different chats for specific tasks like content writer, developer, product manager and so on.

https://chatboxai.app/en
I agree I didn't phrase that right. It was a short cut.

There has been debate over whether mitochondria can be called alive since at least 1890. For many years the vast majority of mitochondrial biologists have avoided the binary alive/not alive classification because there is a spectrum of 'livingness' and we can draw the line anywhere we like.

Picking a different line position is not scientific, it is semantics. What do we mean by the term 'alive'?

The article presented a profound new way of viewing the living state of mitochondria that was going to transform the world. It said nothing new, and failed to make any reference to the long term debate.

But it was a nicely written interesting article and mitochondria are going to be hugely important therapeutic area in the future.
I would say to look at credit utilization as a function of the other variables. Or more generally each variable as a function of the other variables. There is a bit of this in the initial correlation analysis, but a GLM is more robust.
As others have replied, this is reasonable general feedback, but in this specific case the work was done carefully. Table 1 from the linked paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.05007) includes a variety of metrics, while an entire appendix is dedicated to quality comparisons.

By showing their work side-by-side with other quantization schemes, you can also see a great example of the flavor of different results you can get with these slight tweaks (e.g., ViDiT INT8) and that their quantization does a much better job in reproducing the "original" (Figure 15).

In this application, it's not strictly true that you care to have the same results, but this work does a pretty good job of it.
People are saying very weird things in the comments. To the extent that epigenetics transfers at all, they can't go very far.

For past-life memories, uh no.

For memories in non-brain tissues, there's a major detail problem there, if any of this pans out at all. For memories transferred from another person, it makes no sense. Your nerves don't transfer universal (between human) data files around, and your brain is a tangled mess. Memories won't transfer beyond, maybe, possibly, some stuff around personality, mood, and various neurotransmitter things.

And I don't think it would be common, if it happens at all, without intentional development and use of new tech.

For example it should theoretically be possible to recover the basic personality of a cryogenically vitrified brain, based quite a bit on genetics and some on brain structure, but beyond that I can't say. Unless you know many things I don't, and have carefully checked that you truly know them, you should not expect memory recovery, at least above the low double digits percentage.

And that's assuming "full technology", I for sure don't know to even get started.
given some sort of excrmption from time the chance of any human or group of humans getting it right are still zero, nobody is that good, so the only plausable way to do it, is to just aproximate the number, which we then might as well get on with congradulating ourselves with a job well done, me first I so great,now you ,and you
,and well everybody so great now
Interesting paper and work but the model doesn't seems to be better than Qwen2.5-Coder in some languages including Ruby.
nice, "run JS without (browser) runtime" is coming. perforr, jaws, or another project will eventually succeed.
I'd imagine that the entire international trade of cheese carries just a tiny part of the cheese consumed over the world.
I completely agree, it is absolutely not necessary to provide ID in order to assert some property securely and anonymously.

The cryptographer Jan Camenisch has done a lot of good work in this area [1], including IdentityMixer and Direct Anonymous Attestation.

The scheme you link above seems to provide at least pseudonymous age proof, and does not allow the verifier to track what you visit. It's not clear to me whether it prevents linkability (i.e. although a site doesnt know who you are, they could link each time the same pseudonymous visitor connects).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Camenisch
Curious if any of the app uses LiveView portion of Phoenix. And if so, thoughts on that part of it.