Fortunately, iPhones don't weigh 2 tons or run the disk of hitting other drivers and pedestrians.

I was quite confused why the government would create an entire site telling people to stop consuming manga. I mean, I personally don't care for manga/anime stuff, but really?

Turns out it's just a website for Quitman, GA. https://quitmanga.gov

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253

> Like, just look at the amount of results for "Minecraft" "slow"

My niece was playing it just fine on a decade-old Mac mini. I've played it a bit on a Raspberry Pi.

The sales figures suggest my nice's experience is fairly typical, and things such as you quote are more like the typical noise that accompanies all things done in public — people complaining about performance is something which every video game gets. Sometimes the performance even becomes the butt of a comic strips' joke.

If Java automatically causing low performance, neither my niece's old desktop nor my Pi would have been able to run it.

If you get me ranting on the topic: Why does BG3 take longer to load a saved game file than my 1997 Performa 5200 took to cold boot? Likewise Civ VI, on large maps?

A mysterious motor-boat appears and slam-explodes into russian tankers. No country claims to be the owner. Drunk motorboat enthusiasts suspected - no trace of hybrid warfare..

I think it has to be the french president, they’re the only EU country with nukes (I dont see UK as EU at this point)

"I quite like the idea of a united EU army."

Won't happen, at least not in any meaningful form.

Baltics or Poland are existentially threatened by Russia, Spain or even Germany are not, even if Russia can do a limited damage to them. What is supposed to create "unity" in that regard? What would force Spain to contribute as much as, let's say, Finland? We can see even now, with all these US threats, not every NATO country was willing to increase its spending on military. And even more importantly, who is going to command such EU army? Commission?

>The fundamental problem is that moving parts break.

So do human bodies, and the extensive life support systems they would depend on in space, which I think was the theme, more than anything, of this particular article.

The only unique think I can personally add here that we're probably a lot more comfortable with high failure rates for machines than even low rates of failure for humans.

> Model still appears to be just a bit too overly sensitive to "complex ethical issues", e.g. generated a 1 page essay basically refusing to answer whether it might be ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it meant saving 1 million people from dying.

The real "mind virus" is actually these idiotic trolley problems. Maybe if an LLM wanted to be helpful it should tell you this is a stupid question.

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253

It is 100% Orwellian doublespeak. It should be a five alarm fire, but cowed media outlets are incapable of calling it out for some reason. Probably because they are terrified of the consequences. Preemptive surrender. Dark times ahead.

Tangentially relevant: Gernots list of benchmarking crimes.

https://gernot-heiser.org/benchmarking-crimes.html

hot take: i don't think you even need to understand much linear algebra/calculus to understand what a transformer does. like the math for that could probably be learned within a week of focused effort.

The math isn't that difficult. The transformers paper (https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3...) was remarkably readable for such a high impact paper. Beyond the AI/ML specific terminology (attention) that were thrown out

Neural networks are basically just linear algebra (i.e matrix multiplication) plus an activation function (ReLu, sigmoid, etc.) to generate non-linearities.

Thats first year undergrad in most engineering programs - a fair amount even took it in high school.

This is a genuinely fascinating difference in perception to me. I don't remember ever hearing it used in the way you have. I've always heard it used to point out that devs often give more focus on what tools they use than they do on what actually matters to their customers.

Here we go again with Tesla cultist trying to change what the word "recall" means.

Sounds like economics.

Research fraud is common pretty much everywhere in academia, especially where there's money, i.e. adjacent to industry.

The economy of thought that you brought to that comment could be seen as impressively efficient, depending on the outcome you want to optimize for given inputs.

> it is hard to imagine this EO standing

There are many things that I thought would not survive the scrutiny of good people within the system of checks and balances.

But here were are. It seems that "good people within the system of checks and balances" were the only obstacle to absolute power.

The large rocket adddresses basically all the problems.

Time between resupply? Well, you can just take a bunch of resupply missions with you. Most stuff is packed ahead of time, except fresh veggies and fruits, but deep freezers can keep the nutritional value of those nearly as well as being fresh.

Redundancy/reliability? Bring the spare pool with you instead of keeping it on the surface for resupply flights. Bring two different systems.

Long duration life support? Enough mass allows you to avoid it all together if you like. This still has not sunk in to most of the fairly educated people who opine on this topic. Simple life support systems are VERY reliable, and the advantage of advanced life support systems is they reduce mass. If you don’t need the mass reduction, you don’t need the advanced life support.

Far from medical care? Small crew sizes are a mass constraint. More mass means you can afford large crews with dedicated medical personnel. And the equipment to go allow with it.

Also applies to radiation shielding (mass) and even partial gravity (centrifugal gravity is well known as a replacement but for some inexplicable reason is avoided… and yea, even short arm centrifuge is useful and could be used on the surface… the disorienting effects are actually manageable, and while in space, a tether can be used to enable long arm centrifugal gravity with little Coriolis effect).

Transit times can also be reduced significantly with refueling. 80-120 day transits are feasible, not just the most efficient 150-210 day transits for long stay. The surface of Mars also has significant radiation shielding in spite of the thin atmosphere. The Mars rover Curiosity measures the same radiation equivalent on Mars’s surface as on ISS today. Mars rover Perseverance also demonstrated production of unlimited oxygen from the Martian CO2 atmosphere using electricity. Regolith could also be used to enhance radiation shielding. This is before discussing water mining (and even that can be done without touching regolith, just the air using the WAVAR technique… useful for crew consumption although this method doesn’t scale up to producing enough for propellant very well).

There is no a single hazard or obstacle to a Mars mission that isn’t at least partially mitigated by having a lot more mass capability, ie a big and cheap reusable rocket (capable of landing on Mars and aerobraking).

If you're after freedom, you absolutely do not want Singapore or Dubai.

Sounds efficient.

Because the data doesn't match. The author addresses this in his blog post -- essentially every country has the same graph of SWE jobs, but only the US has sec 175.

To avoid having an image you're actively using being removed from the registry. Arguably it doesn't happen often, but when you're running something in production you should be in control. Below a certain scale it might not make sense to run your own registry and you just run the risk, but if you can affort it, you should "vendor" everything.

Not Docker, but I worked on a project that used certain Python libraries, where the author would yank the older versions of the library everything they felt like rewriting everything, this happened multiple times. After that happened the second time we just started running our own Python package registry. That way we where in control of upgrades.

My iphone can't kill someone else moving 70 mph down the highway during the normal course of its operation.

Anytime they have a software update for a "recall", I imagine what the headlines would look like if Apple had to "recall 2 billions iPhones for a security fix"

Is your criticism really that Musk didnt build stuff HIMSELF but had a team of engineers? Yeah of course no one thinks he designed and assembled every starlink sattalite himself. Thats a preposterous contention. He did, in facf, lead the teams that accomplished this stuff.

To notify consumers of safety issues using the existing rails that are used to notify consumers of safety issues?

Then why are they wasting time "reviewing" the IRS in the middle of tax season?

The United States has the strongest laws for freedom of speech. You can't get arrested and face years of criminal legal trials, ending in an £800 fine for making a joke with your dog in America. Police won't show up at your house for Facebook posts like they do in Aussiestan. American courts probably won't take your infant away from you and force a medical procedure on it like in Kiwistan just because you wanted to use your own blood donors for the operation.

It's been degrading in the US too. Xitter is not at all a free speech platform and that technocrat says whatever he has to for popularity until he can chip your brain. Cutting a few million in wasteful government spending doesn't make up for how he loves China and deeply desires their level of autocracy.

America's laws have somehow held in-spite of presidents that seek to crush it (yes, both of them, both sides. They're the same. Stop believing the headlines and read the damn articles). Although defamation law has been weaponized to neuter some forms of speech and reporting.

There is an internal push by the CIA in America to further destabilize it and cause radical elements in the fake-left and fake-right to call for more authoritarianism. It's not a great nation, but sadly it is the last bastion of true liberty .. and it's eroding every day from every side.

In 20 years there might not be anywhere to flee to. Fight for your country. They can't put every British person in prison if everyone decided to tell the truth.