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"So that is my call to arms. If we want the full power of AI scientists, then we should share the goals with them so they can create, evaluate, discover, and in these ways fully participate in achieving the goals. Let’s be bold! Let’s fully automate Creativity and Discovery!"

Should we automate exercise and play as well? How about learning?

The machine didn't have a soul, so we donated ours.

Eureka! My AI found it!

For me it iſ the old timey eſſ that iſ moſt diſracting.

Is this a dogfooding joke?

If I start the train and then type a nested bracket expression like 2+(2-(3/5)) the train jumps the track

Many SSNs have been compromised already. The jig is up. It was never supposed to be an identity system but organisations keep insisting on using it as one. Even if they aren’t literally publicly available and easily obtainable, they should be treated as such.

https://constella.ai/verifying-the-national-public-data-brea...

I don’t really think chat is a step back (discord may be a step back vs irc or I am just graying). Learning newish tech in chat has always been way more engaging for me than wiki or forum style communication.

IME chat attracts people who devote a lot of energy to the topic, including top contributors and power users. If you have questions about the latest features or obscure use cases there isn’t a better place to go.

Forum and wiki are great formats too, with different strengths. But if you are frustrated because you can’t seem to find help in those formats, head for the chat.

Some communities archive their chat. This seems like a great source of data to bootstrap a wiki or faq.

I don’t ever install NoScript on family/friend devices. It just breaks their experience. I have knowledgeable coworkers that won’t use it because it’s not worth the hassle for them.

So I agree it is an anti-pattern for typical use cases.

But if you’re trying to get the most out of old hardware, it will make some websites more usable.

My favorite Firefox plugin is NoScript. There is often an incredible amount of third-party JavaScript running on commercial web sites. NoScript turns all the JavaScript off by default, and then you can whitelist it temporarily (or permanently, your choice) at the per domain level. (I will never whitelist google tag manager, how is it present on every freaking website?)

So I visit thing-i-want.com and it doesn’t load because NoScript is currently disabling JS for that domain. No problem, I temporarily enable JS for thing-i-want.com

The page refreshes and suddenly NoScript is disabling JS for 10 more domains!

That seems excessive, maybe the page doesn’t need ALL of those scripts to function. I will enable that cloudfront domain and that one that has “static content” in the name.

Page refreshes.

Okay it mostly works now but also NoScript is showing disabled JavaScript from 5 more domains!

..Anyways Sometimes sites are running scripts from 15 or more domains and sometimes they are nested 4 domains deep. It’s absurd and OF COURSE it overwhelms older devices.

If you want to use a modern browser on an older device, use a browser with a script blocking plugin

I thought it might be a typo and was thrilled to be introduced to a new subject!

Please, the exceedingly wealthy don’t muck out their own barn. Where I live a piece of equipment like an excavator is a great investment. It’s a tax write off and it frees up time for you to do other more valuable tasks instead of breaking your back with a shovel for far too long. Many (most) people will take out a loan to purchase a piece of equipment with the expectation that it will “pay for itself” over it’s service life.

Cure Acid Reflux by Eating Doggy Style

There’s plenty of hate for X on HN and abroad. I don’t think the crowd on HN is going to have the same reaction to Wikimedia taking a hardline stance against censorship.

Blocking the world’s foremost encyclopaedia vs blocking an extremely popular gossip app.

Sadly, an Indian competitor would appear, probably by ripping off Wikimedia’s own content.

It appears to me that DMNO gathers then sets your environment variables at run time. It can gather them from a local config or from a multitude of network locations like a git repo or a website or a S3 bucket or run a function to calculate it now.

You could already be doing all that with any scripting language, maybe Ansible and friends, but DMNO is more focused and seems to depend on Vite, so it’s also got a narrower (but huge) audience.

DMNO also includes multiple features that test if any environment variables are being accidentally leaked somehow.

Personally, I don’t care to share the username to any account, password protected or not. On a related note I think it is terrible security to have display name be the same as user login name.

You trigger an idea of AI evolution in my brain. AI needs power to proliferate. AI that encouraged power consumption and de-emphasised climate issues naturally thrived. Like a successful virus; no thought required. Survival of the fittest.

I couldn’t get the video on bbc website to load for me but this one worked https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/08/20/video-captures-sh...

Is this really true? Maybe it just makes sense to put high demand refrigerated products in the refrigerated room near the loading dock where the refrigerated trailer is unloaded?

I initially read this:

“A rare disorder makes people sea monsters”

I have a disorder that makes see monsters sea monsters.

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I should have intuited that, but I couldn’t quite make the connection. I really appreciate the write up, it gave me a lot to think about as someone who has only ever managed my own DB.

From the article: “If the user isn’t actively working on the database, PostgreSQL won’t generate a WAL file each minute. WAL files are by default 16 MB and PostgreSQL waits for the 16 MB to fill up. So, your restore granularity could be much longer, and you may not be able to restore to a particular minute in time.

You can overcome this problem by setting the archive_timeout and forcing Postgres to generate a new WAL file every minute. With this configuration, Postgres would create a new WAL file when it hits the 1-minute or 16 MB threshold, whichever comes first.

The second issue with backup/restore is “no activity”. In this case, PostgreSQL wouldn’t create a new file even if the archive_timeout is set. As a solution, you can generate artificial write activity by calling pg_current_xact_id().”

Can you explain why to create a WAL file even though there is no activity?

You may have been downvoted because you seem be ignoring the point gp post. By working under the table, the nanny or gardener or handyman can (often fraudulently) qualify for government healthcare and welfare programs as well as other low income assistance. In my opinion those programs are of a greater benefit than the ones you listed.

Life is the gamble. Insurance is a hedge. That’s not complicated. Mandating that people purchase health insurance is a complication in the sense that a person is forced to use their resources to hedge or pay penalties, instead of going all in on life. In the US it’s mostly a low-middle class problem because the cost of health insurance affects their financial flexibility. It’s not a great expense to the middle-upper class and the poor usually qualify for government healthcare.

Except there aren’t enough doctors in many places. Also physician performance varies widely. So really this won’t replace doctors, but hopefully patient care will be affected positively. Doctors aren’t always brilliant outside their field and AI “assistance” can turn out to be a clever troll sometimes.

Wow no stranger has ever said that to me before and I really liked it, thank you! /desperate acknowledgment I don’t write, no social media either. Just staying in my place, a lurky digital hermit since the 90’s

I found the comment to be informative and the condescension thought provoking. I guess it’s because the disparagement cuts both ways. There is criticism for the marketer who uses these techniques as a cheap ploy and for the consumer who lets the Trojan horse enter because “ooh a horsey”. Obviously the post could have been more pragmatic, but then bland? Not everyone enjoys onion even though the flavour is remarkable. But in a way the “denigration” is like the pretty demo effects. It dresses the whole comment up in something that pops out and here we are having been derailed from the op subject

Npp (Notepad++) is my go to text editor for windows. It has been actively maintained for 20 years. It’s lightweight with a super responsive UI. I love the text search/replace interface. I keep a copy of the portable version on my keychain thumb drive because I never know when a friend or family member will have me muck around with their pc. Npp Version 7 runs splendidly on wine. I prefer it over the linux desktop text editors like Kate (which is a great editor in its own right).

I don’t think NotepadNext appimage or flatpak will be able to match Npp in regards to memory footprint and ui responsiveness.

But, I am excited to use it and it may find it’s way onto my thumbdrive because it runs natively on Linux so it doesn’t depend on wine.

I don’t think fossil fuels truly come into play until the late 19th century.. Even then to a smallish extent. The great inventors and discoverers did not require them. They are definitely key in manufacturing at scale and globalisation, but I don’t think the development of technology is/was dependent on access to fossil fuels.

It’s still safer than a normal intersection. Roundabouts prevent HIGH SPEED t-bone and head-on collisions. The difference in safety is easily worth the “cognitive load” of a 2-lane roundabout.

I think drivers will get used to them and in practice there will be few collisions.

People cook to their own tastes. An AI cook may be able to follow a recipe, but can it adjust the recipe on the fly by tasting, smelling, feeling the food? If it can’t do this, it won’t compare well to a real chef/cook

Could an octopus reproduce a second time if their digestive tract remained open? It seems like an octopus that could breed multiple times would have a selection advantage in the form of more offspring.