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A single shopping to trip to Walmart or Home Depot can buy items that can be repurposed into bombs and physical and chemical weapons with only a little bit of know-how. Are we going to require mandatory ID and shopping cart analysis to all shopping too?
NOPE, RAD hardened space parts basically froze on mid 2000s tech: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/radiation-hardened-...
For now. FCC could change this in a couple of months. There is talk of canceling FCC certifications for Autel/DJI.
Could MS Just fix explorer.exe crashes when dragging directory windows between a 1080p display and a 4k display in a multi-monitor setup? Please?
Yep. 0ft-1000ft AGL Takeoff, Climb, Approach, and Landing are the tough bits. The rest (Cruise) is very low demand and much easier than driving.
Next flight should be a mass simulator of at least 100 tons to orbit. This flight was around ~10 tons to almost orbit.
The economics of Starlink basically require high cadence Starship launches with 50+ Starlink v3 satellites on each flight.
Not quite, but it's a major milestone. Still quite a bit of work to go on the rapid reusability part (burnt flaps, oxidized body, missing tiles, tile waterproofing). Starship might actually deliver payload to orbit on flight 11.
HACKER NEWS ADMINS: You might want to remove this thread for legal reasons :)
Or Europe. Or the UK. 10+ prison plus civil damages in all three jurisdictions should it be prosecuted for various "Unauthorized computer access" laws. Even just browsing protected endpoints is a criminal violation. Publishing any info is even a bigger crime.
FYI, if you are a hacker:
1. Stop immediately after discovery and don’t go further than the minimal step that proves the vulnerability exists.
2. Document, don’t exploit
3. Report responsibly
4. Do not publish until fixed. Do not publish documents/images without permission.
5. Intent doesn’t erase liability: even “just poking around” can be charged under CFAA (US) or CMA (UK).
At least wikipedia has an out in the legislation by disabling content recommendation engines for UK users, this includes:
1. “You may be interested in…” search suggestions on the Wikipedia interface—these are algorithmic, content-based recommendations.
2. Editor suggestion tools that propose pages to edit, based on prior activity. Academic systems helping newcomers with article recommendations also qualify.
Most links within articles—like “See also” sections or hyperlinks—are static and curated by editors, not algorithmically chosen per user. That means they do not meet the recommender system definition.
The legislation text for reference:
"Category 1 threshold conditions 3.—(1) The Category 1 threshold conditions(10) are met by a regulated user-to-user service where, in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, it—
(a)(i)has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 34 million, and
(ii)uses a content recommender system, or
(b)(i)has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 7 million,
(ii)uses a content recommender system, and
(iii)provides a functionality for users to forward or share regulated user-generated content(11) on the service with other users of that service.
(2) In paragraph (1), a “content recommender system” means a system, used by the provider of a regulated user-to-user service in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, that uses algorithms which by means of machine learning or other techniques determines, or otherwise affects, the way in which regulated user-generated content of a user, whether alone or with other content, may be encountered by other users of the service. "
Look at UC Davis Gifford Center’s April 2024 “Farm Labor Issues in the 2020s” summary report: https://gifford.ucdavis.edu/events/past/april-4-2024-farm-la...
Very few U.S.-born workers respond to job ads for seasonal crop work, Show up when work begins, or Stick around through the harvest season. "Even when wages reach—or exceed $20–$30 per hour, seasonal U.S. workers overwhelmingly opt out of field labor. That persistent gap is why American agriculture depends so heavily on immigrant and guest‐worker programs, and why mechanization continues to accelerate."
There is also a plan afoot to replace income taxes with tariffs following the McKinley Economic model, involving high tariffs, gold standard, focus on industrialism, and economic imperialism. It kinda made sense in the days where there was a manufacturing base to protect and one could plunder 3rd world economies, but those horses have long left the barn. Also this plan is moronic when you look at the cash flows if implemented today.
The connector could reasonably be shrunk. It just now has essentially no design margin so any minor issue immediately becomes major! 50A DC is serious current to be treated with respect. 5A DC is sanely manageable.
12vhpwr has almost no safety margin. Any minor problem with it rapidly becomes major. 600W is scary, with reports of 800W spikes.
12V2x6 is particularly problematic because any imbalance, such as a bad connection of a single pin, will quickly push things over spec. For example, at 600W, 8.3A are carried on each pin in the connector. Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 connectors are typically rated to 8.5A -- That's almost no margin. If a single connection is bad, current per connector goes to 10A and we are over spec. And this if things are mated correctly. 8.5A-10A over a partially mated pin will rapidly heat up to the point of melting solder. Hell, the 16 gauge wire typically used is pushing it for 12V/8.5A/100W -- that's rated to 10A. Really would like to see more safety margin with 14 gauge wire.
In short, 12V2x6 has very little safety margin. Treat it with respect if you care for your hardware.
Correct, the stage 2 bootloader and system firmware must be on the SSD. The OS can then boot from an external volume.
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/boot-process-secac7...
Volumetric live action performance capture. Basically a video you can walk around in. Currently requires a large synchronized camera array. Plays back on most mobile devices. Several major industry efforts in this space ongoing.
Wet mud and sand is far easier to clean than the thick black tar that accumulates on road bike chains. Tire and tarmac dust is nasty.
It's fine to be a monopoly because you have the best product. It's not OK to use that monopoly position to stifle competitors.
So has enough anticompetitive behavior occurred to distort the market? Unless I'm missing something, I'm just not seeing this investigation having legs.
And ironically decreasing coal and fuel pollution decreases albedo causing faster warming which will persist for a few decades until things balance out. Less pollution is good, particularly when it comes to reductions in sulphur dioxide from bunker fuel and PM2.5 from coal emissions, but it does have side effects amounting to a couple of degrees Celsius of warming according to recent papers. Hanson's "Global Warming in the Pipeline" is a sobering read.
Local LLMs are also a fantastic too for creative endeavors. Without prompt injection and having the ability to modify the amount of noise and "creativity" in the output, absolutely bonkers things pop out.
It's more of a city state encircled by greater London. The City of London has a separate government and rights that predate England, inclusive of the right to opt out of any parliamentary law or ignore the mayor of Greater London. The City of London even considered remaining in the EU after the brexit vote, but it wasn't logistically feasible.
Not that simple: Most of these Chinese fishing boats are classified as Chinese Merchant Marines, a devision of the Chinese Military, so sinking them is an act of war. This is a real headache for managing illegal Chinese Fishing of Vietnam waters and other countries within the 9 and 11 dashed lines.
Russian and Chinese Surface to Air Missile (SAM) systems are really good. Modern versions can detect and target most stealth aircraft at a range of 15-35 miles, depending on radar cross section and electronic countermeasures in use.
It's only a little worse (14t/yr/pc vs 13t/yr/pc). Oil and gas extraction related emissions is the primary driver of that difference.
It is the only practical solution. The only way to get humanity's energy equation to balance is to dramatically reduce the population or dramatically reduce energy use per capita or invent and deploy a mythical free energy source within the next 30 years. And this just covers replacing black energy with green energy -- even more energy will be needed to address the climate problem.
The macro challenge is that we have already overshot and the IPCC appears to be massively understating the current state. According to Hansen et. al.'s Global warming in the pipeline [under peer review], "Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today’s human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today’s aerosols. Decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade." For context, this 10°C is over the next 1500 years, but it does imply at least 4.3°C of warming by 2100.
But if every fraction of a degree matters, shouldn't we also be at least continuing if not scaling up these albedo-increasing changes?
Humanity is running the experiment in real time with a sample size of one. Aerosol dimming is good but acid rain is bad: we have a bad vs a worse choice so someone will be harmed, thus any project has liability and the default of doing nothing happens.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474 if you want some light reading.
You can do that with synchronized video cameras and AI inbetweening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsY0sKH3nG4&t=4s
The challenge here is cost. You need 20-40 perspectives at ~$1000 bucks each including the camera body, lens, trigger system, remote download, and output pipeline. So a hand built cost optimized system will cost $20k - $40k in hardware. Operating is also kinda painful: calibration of each camera is required every time the rig is moved or exposure is adjusted and all shots must be designed ahead of time. It's just kinda a limited market due to the complexity and cost.
Neural Holography should arrive to market within the the next 6 months, which will allow for any frame to be seen at any angle with as few as 20 cameras for 360° x 180° coverage, allowing for bullet time shots to be designed after the fact with the added bonus of having cinematic quality 3D live action content for use in VR and other 3D environments.
Generative AI still needs time to mature before it will have a massive impact. It's just hard to from a company around a product that changes on a week-by-week or even day-by-day basis. The only companies winning big in the immediate term are those creating the models themselves.
As soon as generative AI can largely manage and automate the integration of IT components effectively, that's when I expect to see the explosion.