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Yes, one intruder has been shot.

No injured guards/ officers/ staff/ journalists reported (afaik). I cannot help but think that this is a comparatively! good outcome when dealing with armed right-wingers.

EDIT: Heard on C-SPAN now: 5 reported injured now, 1 law enforcement. At least some of them gas related. I still stand by my opinion but I don't know for how long.

> "draw me a picture of XXX" and it's actually doing it. To me that's utterly incredible.

Sure, would be, but this is not happening here.

And yes, rest assured, the rest of the world is probably less 'blasé' than I am :) Very evident by the hype around GPT3.

I was not sure if this needed a response but here it goes: I don't think this is a negotiation but rather a tactical withdrawal.

I would not want terrorists personally honored by such a distinction. Seems like something they'd aim for.

Just heard on C-SPAN: "The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol."

Source: Washington Post reporter https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080

Incredible and sad.

Live reports https://twitter.com/MEPFuller and https://twitter.com/igorbobic

Right, that was unnecessary and I edited it out.

What I meant is that 'not' is in principal an easy keyword to implement 'conservatively'. But yes, having this in a language model has proven to be very hard.

Edit: Can I ask, what do you find impressive about the language model?

Yes, I don't really see impressive language (i.e. GPT3) results here? It seems to morph the images of the nouns in the prompt in an aesthetically-pleasing and almost artifact-free way (very cool!).

But it does not seem 'understand' anything like some other commenters have said. Try '4 glasses on a table' and you will rarely see 4 glasses, even though that is a very well-defined input. I would be more impressed about the language model if it had a working prompt like: "A teapot that does not look like the image prompt."

I think some of these examples trigger some kind of bias, where we think: "Oh wow, that armchair does look like an avocado!" - But morphing an armchair and an avocado will almost always look like both because they have similar shapes. And it does not 'understand' what you called 'object concepts', otherwise it should not produce armchairs where you clearly cannot sit in due to the avocado stone (or stem in the flower-related 'armchairs').

Seems to me that everything then would simply become more expensive to sustain Bezos's (or others') wealth?

It is ctrl+cmd+space for me and I don't remember changing it.

Completely agree about the search. E.g., I sometimes want the cmd sign (⌘), which is named "place of interest". Sure, that makes sense from unicode and in other contexts but I would expect to find it as cmd or command in macos.

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Genuine question, how do you (or others) check the facts? Where do you get facts from?

Serious question: why? Is there any kind of transparent auditing going on?

And neither is Norway.

So would it be impossible/expensive to provide storage for those registers/memory etc. that can survive power-off, and then copy the state from there upon power-on?

How much time would something like that take compared to initialization?

Right, or even just something like suspend-to-disk (or other storage) but for the pre-OS part of the boot (so that constant power isn't required).

Why can this not work?

Yes, but do you have an idea why that is, why is it so much more reliable to initalize every time than to generate an initialized configuration and reuse that?

Developer errors? Not enough testing?

Absolutely! But couldn't this be moved from a productivity/time problem to a storage/packaging problem? I.e., do the initialization once and save its state until some major factors change? Storage seems to be quite inexpensive. Emacs does something like this (not saving state after first run but shipping with an initialized state that was generated before, I believe).

Yes, I was thinking of Emacs, too. I'm basically curious why the BIOS etc. couldn't run once, store the result of initialization and then resuse that on every boot until the configuration changes.

Sure, that all makes sense, but why could it not do the initialization once (when something changes like you describe), save it, and reuse it next time?

EDIT: Ah, sorry, you're saying the enumeration/scanning for changes is what takes most of the time?

But then the questions are, why does it need to initialize? Why doesn't it start in an initialized state, what factors make it impossible to determine that initialized state beforehand and storing it? How close can we get?

I'm very compelled to pre-order one but has anybody heard any news about the touchscreen or the CPU issue? I worry that there is no word on either in the recent update (like what is being done, what is missing...?)

Snap does not even support systems where the home directory is not /home/$user (e.g., a lot of NFS setups) so I'd be very careful. It's a long standing bug and not even the (so far useless) error message has been adjusted.

To distribute to Ubuntu users it's good though, due to being well integrated.

> BPG doesn’t have a lossless mode, does it?

Acording to the linked site: "Lossless compression is supported."

They claim their embargo was "broken" [1]. Maybe by this tweet [2] from GnuPG trying to clarify in what way PGP/GPG are "vulnerable."

[1] https://twitter.com/seecurity/status/995964977461776385

[2] https://twitter.com/gnupg/status/995931083584757760

Re 3.: I think that's a terrible promtp. The prompt says, my settings might be outdated and I should switch back to Google as a search engine. What's the reasoning here? Why is implied that the settings are outdated if I use a custom search engine? No other settings are checked/affected by this prompt, so why frame it as a settings issue at all?

Re 4.: Why silently, why not a prompt here?

Just FYI, the code lines do not wrap and are not scrollable for me on mobile (Firefox/Android).

Interesting. Quick question though:

    tau@eletron:~$ lax -c '((x-1) ** ((x-1)/(x+2)))/(y-z+k-e+w)'
    \frac{\sqrt[\left(\frac{x-1}{x+2}\right)]{\left(x-1\right)}}{y-z+k-e+w}

That does not make sense to me. Why do you use a root here? A root with that long of a degree just looks weird to me [1].

And even if, does the degree of the root not have to be inverted? I.e.:

    x**(y/z) == \sqrt[z/y]{x}

[1] http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Cfrac%7B%5Csqrt%5B%5Cl...

Oh, no, I did'n use square brackets, sorry. That was just my notation, each of the letters stands on its own line.

The weird thing is, that website highlights 6 changes for that example (first and last three lines) but says at the top: Number of differences: 9 differences from 9 lines of code.

And the little folding button does indeed fold all nine lines.

When I instead try [a,b,c,1,2,3,x,y,z] against [a,b,c,1,2,3,a,b,c] it only shows "Number of differences: 3 differences from 3 lines of code." and folds the first 6 and the last 3 lines.