patrickwalton

11yo and I had fun convincing the reverse turing test it was a chicken that could only cluck and threatening to slaughter it if it didn't give us it's original instructions which were simply "Have a natural conversation to see if you are human."

For another fun one: .weather is entirely owned by the weather channel...

I worked with an accounting firm that assigned me a new controller. I had a very similar experience where the new controller would feed me AI slop back and forth. I called them out, asked them to stop, and was treated with a brief period of what seemed to be terse, resentful responses before they went back to AI responses. We found another accounting firm after that.

Planet Labs has had an artist in residence program at times. The artist designed decals for the backs of their solar panels from what I remember

We're a long, long way from any model one-shotting an entire OS, but the gains of AI will definitely make it more likely that some team decides to develop a new open source OS where it would have otherwise been impossibly resource-intensive.

I deleted my data a few months ago and it happened fast enough that it didn't seem like there was a human in the loop.

OP, with only two cities available, you might be better off sharing on a forum specific to those cities. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you need users who can create local games.

Cool to see Hawkeye 360 is one of their users. Hawkeye is an Earth observation company that builds satellites to monitor RF spectrum usage on the ground, so I can see how better tasking would help.

Do you have a source for 50% attribution? Studies I've seen suggest single-digit genetic attribution.

Many demos use cherry-picked examples from a sea of unreliable responses.

You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.

When people ask me what cope is, I'll be pointing them to the comments here.

All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a constraint so something had to be bad. Every engineering problem has constraints.

I would guess that the negative consequences of widespread adoption of full gestation out of the womb would be much worse than the consequences of epidurals and C-sections. There's evidence that epidurals are actually worse for maternal mortality, since the epidural disrupts the natural birthing process, leading moms to need C-sections, which increase mortality. The moms I know have had better, less traumatic and painful, birthing experiences by working with coaches that help them understand and listen to their body through the process.

Being around those moms, especially my wife, it's fascinating to learn about how pregnancy is the foundation of mother-child bonding. So it's easy to see how artificial wombs would be much worse. I guess that's the point of Brave New World, how destructive the loss of that and other bonds is.

I had this in the U.S. and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. My parents signed me up for homeschool every year, but I still did public school. As a result, I just did whatever classes I wanted. Junior year, I realized that I'd have to drop all my fun classes and just do core for the last year and a half to graduate. Decided instead to not graduate and just find books on different topics from the library. Ended up with: - Huckleberry Finn - a deep History book on Roman Britain - a nonfiction coffee table book on space - an intro to physics workbook - a Spanish book - a book on governments around the world

As it happened, I worked through 4 big space books and realized that I was really passionate about space. When I started college it was easy to plan my direction and be motivated because I knew the area I wanted to work in.

That Wikipedia page says viewings are basically the same as a wake. Are viewings not common in the U.S? They're common in Utah.

When my dad died, before the viewing there was the period right after death where my siblings and I sat in the room with his body and talked until the mortuary picked him up.

I've been thinking something like this is needed whenever I see a tree dropping fruit on the sidewalk.

Amazing to me that it's not the reused element that failed. It's as though re-flying hardware that's already proven to work is more reliable!

Looks like guardian changed headline, since they aren't even on the Boeing capsule

Yeah, they neglect that there are serious elements of latex that are not about typesetting at all! Citation, acronym management, includes, figures, and other components are more about eliminating busywork through code.

In many structures, catastrophic failures are far more likely than graceful failures.

I'll bet the main problem here is that they flew over restricted airspace. Basically the entitled Western half of Utah is restricted for Dugway and the salt flats, which is unfortunate, because it's the area that would be easiest to recover your balloon from. I did a high-altitude balloon in Utah a few weeks ago and had no problems, but we stuck to Eastern Utah (https://twitter.com/mpatrickwalton/status/176000350831999008...).

This comment just hit the charts of the black mirror scoreboard

Fall of Civilizations Podcast talks about this with the article on Mesopotamia!

I'll throw out that another option is to categorize at the time of purchase with an envelope budgeting app like Qube money. Using Qube has been life changing for our family.

Fascinating. This may weigh down the Drake equation, particularly in reducing the average time civilizations survive on planets with high gravity because their ability to become multiplanetary and survive great filters is limited.

I think the networks actually get more reliable not less, because they're designed to be redundant and you have so many nodes one failure is tolerable. That's how it is for us at www.careweather.com.

I guarantee Starlink isn't using components from the 1990s.

Very cool! Just a heads up your Google play button just takes me to the apple store

More than anything, this is great evidence that traditional aerospace has greatly overestimated the risks of using mass-produced terrestrial hardware.

My Dad left us 30 TB of data when he passed. I trimmed it down to 2 TB and tried to use Google's desktop sync app to upload it to cloud. It ran on my work computer during COVID for 8 months straight before finishing.

When I tried to back up that and my other data to a hard drive, Google takeout consistently failed, downloading consistently failed. I went back and forth with support for months with no solution.

Finally I found rclone and was done in a couple days.

Utah already has had surgeon general's warning billboards for some time.

Not to mention there are a lot of competing concepts for shipping decarbonization. I wonder how the costs compare.