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"The temporary order is only in effect for 14 days, but it can be converted into a preliminary injunction that would prevent the merger from being completed until the case is resolved. The temporary restraining order can be extended past the 14-day period if more time is needed to rule on a preliminary injunction."
The word "halt" made it sound more permanent than this really is.
The article touches on alternatives:
While other magnet-free alternatives exist—such as centuries-old AC induction motors or switched reluctance motors—they are often heavy, inefficient workarounds. Similarly, ferrite magnets (like the ones announced by Ola Electric) come with performance tradeoffs.
Definitely sounds interesting but this line didn't make sense:
Vimag’s roadmap includes designing its own Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). This, too, like the motor would be virtual magnet based.
Emacs originated in the era of time-sharing systems and ed (the precursor of vi) is particularly handy over slow network connections. Even when coding remotely, Emacs and vi are the tools I reach for.
The author missed the main reason I favor working locally: privacy, not responsiveness.
We write prompts, launch agents and review what they produce.
What better tool to review that output than the one you know really well? For me and many others, that's Emacs and vi.
Secrets lying around everywhere
If secrets are moved from a local machine to the cloud, are they really secret any more?
"The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe."
Only 2?
Congratulations as you start an amazing journey, one you'll play a major role in scripting (but not the exclusive role).
I learned too late the lessons qwerpy expressed very well in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623191.
"how am I gonna teach all the good things"
I propose that you eschew the temptation to overwhelm the child with activities that you enjoy. A more subtle approach could work better: for instance, rather than insist on learning a specific music instrument in a rigid schedule, leave one within reach. Play it yourself and later (may be days later,) when the child picks it up, drop_the_phone and really, genuinely express your happiness and appreciation!
In general, let the child show you what intrigues them and then purchase whatever could help deepen their interest. However, now that you've made a purchase, don't go: "I bought this and now you've lost interest; such a waste of money." Their interests naturally bounce around and may come around again. See this not as a waste but an investment.
Anything (your time or your purchases,) that spurs them to discover their intrinsic motivation, is as an investment. Not all investments yield a positive ROI but given enough investments and enough time, your participation and your attention compounds!
I was with a young father this weekend, celebrating his son's 1st birthday. I'll leave you the advice I gave him and wish I had: time with your boy is not fungible. Given where you are in your career, you might feel extreme pressure to put off activities with your son. Don't! Rather than insist on doing something fun only when your calendar has a tiny opening, see every moment the child gives you his attention, as a tremendous gift. Don't waste it but (to the maximum extent possible,) drop whatever you're immersed in and fully give him your attention and time. Show him in that instant, how much he means to you. This too is an investment with a very long term ROI.
In due course, as a child grows up, the role their parents play in their mind-space, starts to shrink. Before then, there's a window in which a boy's hero is his father. Don't blow it by thinking you can ignore him then and make up later.
"how am I gonna teach all the good things"
Be open to your child teaching you many more good things too.
Finally, resist the temptation to show them a smartphone or screen, for as long you can [1]:
"These studies are more evidence that it’s a good idea to avoid lots of screen time in infancy (birth to 18 months). Infants just don’t have the cognitive skills to learn from screens at this age, and it gets in the way of activities that build brains, such as talking to infants, back-and-forth play, singing, or reading together. Research shows that products or programs claiming they are able to help babies learn language or regulate emotions are not telling the truth."
(father of two girls)
[1] https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/cente...
With my reliance on org-mode and org-agenda I spend as much time in Emacs as I do my browser (Firefox.) I wouldn't have it any other way.
I found the underlying medium article [1] more helpful. You can check to see if a site has been reported compromised here [2].
[1] https://doublepulsar.com/fortibleed-75k-fortinet-firewalls-h...
Love the idea! I only now realize, after reading what motivated you, how naggy I might've sounded to my kids (they've outgrown the target age group.)
Perhaps an e-ink display (either incorporated onto the device or affixed to the refrigerator) could display info that is likely to change very frequently. That's the only suggestion I can think to offer.
Best of luck on your venture!
Emacs
Exactly. It wasn't obvious until I read the linked BBC article [1] that:
"Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts"
It is noteworthy that a government department decided it could meet its requirements without a 3rd party provider. Could be the start of a trend but a wholesale move away from PLTR this isn't.
I too detest captchas. I found the paper elsewhere:
"vibrations can be strong enough to dislodge a seed’s 'statoliths,' which are tiny gravity-sensing organelles within certain cells of a seed."
"Statoliths are denser than a cell’s cytoplasm and can drift and sink through the cell, like a bit of sand in a jar of water. When a statolith finally settles to the bottom, its resting place on the cell’s membrane is a reflection of gravity’s direction and a signal for where a seed’s root or shoot should grow."
Thanks jcims for sharing this amazing info! However, I wonder how these very loud bats, all in close proximity, don't get confused by each others' calls? Is the answer their frequency sweeping? Or does each have something analogous to a unique "voice"?
I found another, more detailed article that describes what I think is the same discovery:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/scientists-ele...
"delete the whole thing?"
With vi (after running "set -o vi"): <esc>kC
(k to move up back one position in history. C to "change" to the end of the line.)
This is equivalent to doing the following with "set -o emacs": <ctrl>pu
Regardless, use what you're comfortable with or can incrementally add to your muscle memory.
That looks interesting. I thought sam was an editor (which I've only read about, never used.) Good to see it can be used on the command line.
Is there a port to Apple silicon?
Given the connection with a one-time pad, I wonder why the article refers to the technique as "cryptology". Wouldn't "cryptography" be the correct term, given the security afforded by a one-time pad is unmatched?
Moreover, students are indoctrinated in MS Office from a young age, given the extent to which it's been baked into official curricula. The books that a lot of Indian students use are available online [1] and MS' stranglehold is very evident.
A book featured on HN several times before is "The Joy of Cryptography" [1]
There's also "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" [2]
I’m running MJ Rathbun from a completely sandboxed VM and gave the agent several of its own accounts but none of mine.
Am I wrong that this is a double standard: being careful to protect oneself from a wayward agent with no regard for the real harm it could (and did) to another individual? And to casually dismiss this possibility with:
At worst, maintainers can close the PR and block the account.
I question the entire premise of:
Find bugs in science-related open source projects. Fix them. Open PRs.
Thinking of AI as "disembodied intelligence," one wonders how any agent can develop something we humans take for granted: reputation. And more than ever, reputation matters. How else can a maintainer know whether the agent that made a good fix is the same as the one proposing another? How can one be sure that all comments in a PR originated from the same agent?
First, I’m a human typing this post. I’m not going to tell you who I am.
Why should anyone believe this? Nothing keeps an agent from writing this too.
Telegram became my main interface to AgentX (my OpenClaw agent). Why Telegram?
Secure (end-to-end encryption available)
It seems telegram bot conversations don't use the Secret Chat feature [1]. Even if they did, I'd be cautious [2].
[1] https://community.latenode.com/t/are-telegram-bot-conversati...
[2] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
I'm with wolvoleo. I'm forced to use MS Office at work but install only LO on my personal machines. It may lack features or pizzazz but as a reliable, unfussy authoring tool, it serves my needs very well.
pointlessly going against expectations
If you're referring to the ribbon, I'm not sold on its superiority. The vast majority of other software still uses the familiar menu structure, which is what LO uses too.
Granted, well meaning educational programs expose students to MS Office and its paradigm, from an early age. For their sake, I eagerly await a coding assistant AI powerful enough to reskin LibreOffice to look just MS Office, ribbon and all.
I've collected some links for building regular slide rules ([1] & [2]) as well as a circular slide rule [3]. Someone might also like the slide rule simulator [4].
[1] https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/REF/scales/MakeYourOwnSlideR...
[2] http://leewm.freeshell.org/origami/card-slide.pdf
[3] https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Scales.shtml#YingHum
[4] http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/virtual-slide-rule.ht...
" You learn to freely use scientific notation with ease, and mental estimation to get the order of magnitude right."
This is what I was trying to get at in my other comment [1]!
I've never used a slide rule but recently developed an interest in them (and also in nomograms [1])
My fascination stems from a belief: that slide rule usage helps users develop a certain intuition for numbers whereas the calculator doesn't. To illustrate, suppose someone tries to multiply 123 and 987 with a calculator but incorrectly punches in 123 and 187. My hypothesis is they'll look at the result but won't suspect any problem. The equivalent operation on a slide rule requires fewer physical actions and hence, is less error prone.
Do you think there's anything to this hypothesis?
Mentioned in the article as having limited applicability:
"When a mold’s takeover of an artifact must be stopped, there’s gamma radiation—pelting it with electromagnetic energy from radioactive decay to kill fungi and spores. But this technique penetrates deeply and can extensively damage materials."
I share your concern. I'm flummoxed by the prevalent sentiment that code is the nasty underbelly of software. To me, a programming language is a medium both for precisely directing a computer's behavior and for precisely communicating a process to fellow programmers (cue the Alan Perlis quote [1].)
I will concede that mainstream code is often characterized by excessive verbosity and boilerplate. This I attribute to the immaturity of today's crop of programming languages. Techniques like language-oriented-programming [2] hint at a path I find appealing: DSLs that are tailored to the problem while promising more precision than a natural language specification could.
To speculate, I could see LLMs helping during the creation of a DSL (surfacing limitations in the DSL's design) and when adding features to a DSL, to help migrate code written in the old version to the new one.
Perhaps DSLs aren't the future. However will there be as much interest in designing new and superior programming languages now that code is seen as little more than assembly language?
[1] https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...
[2] https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html
Wishing you the very best. If you find exams stressful, keep in mind that you're not alone.
I've long felt that the practice of using exams to gauge knowledge or intelligence is overdue for disruption. Exams are only able to evaluate a very narrow set of abilities, so don't lose heart if your hard work doesn't translate into "marks."
No one knows what'll replace the current system and humanity may take 1 step back for every 2 steps forward. Nonetheless, I draw comfort from recognizing that so many interesting and important problems remain to be solved; problems that can keep a sharp and motivated mind engaged for a very long time.
Correct me if I'm wrong about my guess: you're referring to the JEE (Joint Entrance Exams) in India. For those unfamiliar, these are the critical exams that high-schoolers must excel in, so as to apply to the IITs, NITs and many other institutions in India. The exams just got kicked off.
While competition for the IITs is fierce, I'll submit that there are many institutions in which one can do well. Key is to retain your curiosity and aptitude for learning, and to not let the education system snuff those out.
Again, apologies if I've presumed too much.
The court relied on Google's TOS to conclude that users opted to use the service, fully aware of their data being stored:
* when a person performs a Google search, he or she is aware (at least constructively) that Google collects a significant amount of data and will provide that data to law enforcement personnel in response to an enforceable search warrant. For present purposes, what Google does with that information, including the standards it imposes upon itself before providing that information to investigators, is irrelevant. For Fourth Amendment purposes, what matters is that the user is informed that Google—a third party—will collect and store that information.
IANAL and can't understand whether now, every 3rd party storing my data is obligated to share it without a warrant.
Genuine question: given LLMs' inexorable commoditization of software, how soon before NVDA's CUDA moat is breached too? Is CUDA somehow fundamentally different from other kinds of software or firmware?