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by avsteele 2y ago
Until it doesn't. It isn't the case that even if everyone agrees on the BLM, Trans rights, and the outcome of WWII will agree on future issues of the day. Thier stance sets up an expectation that the language should have an offici
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by avsteele 2y ago
Interesting language. Great web page. I find it off-putting to have politics as the third thing on the home page though. Makes me think there is going to be a scissor that cuts the community apart at some point. ("As a Gleam community
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by avsteele 2y ago
I wish he spent a bit more time on the section regarding magnitude of the effect for different accelerations. If indeed there is a minimum acceleration I wonder if it might not be measurable with some atomic physics experiment (atomic clock
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by avsteele 2y ago
Exactly. I'm very surprised someone a whole essay like this and have this misconception. I was half expecting to see "humans building something smarter than human machines violates the laws of thermodynamics" next.
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by avsteele 2y ago
If you enjoy watching colorful balls fly around you may also enjoy: https://www.zerok.com/demo/ This is a little toy model of what goes on inside our ion source, laser cooling + photoionization. I use it in talks somet
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by avsteele 2y ago
So every company who uses VPNs to allow their people to get into the network from offsite (customer site, airport, hotel) now can't safely? You basically have to trust everyone on the remote LAN to not act like a malicious DHCP server.
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by avsteele 2y ago
Nice to see this happen! When this was attempted with trapped ions, I and my colleagues at GaTech were the first to trap and laser cool Th(232) 3+ https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/kuzmich-lab/wp-content/uploads/s..
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by avsteele 2y ago
Readers please note: recording consent laws vary state to state. Do not read the headline and assume it applies to yours. Some states are single party consent, some two, some might be more subtle.
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by avsteele 3y ago
It is trivially easy for those types of actors to simply use a stolen identity or create an entirely plausible one out of thin air. Can you provide a historical example of when something like that has happened? It sounds like hyperbole to
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by avsteele 3y ago
Your point is well-taken, but see my reply below. Stopping state-backed level actors might not be possible, but we can make it harder for cyber-criminals. Has it been shown this is by a state-level actor?
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by avsteele 3y ago
I am not assigning any personal blame or making an accusation of bad judgement on the maintainer. Taking contributions from anons appears to be common. I am suggesting that should change.
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by avsteele 3y ago
I would want to think it over but off the top of my head: GitHub could provide this as a service, perhaps using uploads of whatever state/national ID the user is coming from. Give a little 'verified ID' badge. All banks do th
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by avsteele 3y ago
It would appear that no one knows the RL identity of the bad actor? Or even vouches for them? It doesn't seem wise to accept contributions to projects which may have security implications from anons. Code contributions clearly can&#x27
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by avsteele 3y ago
This is fun. I have been having trouble with Google capchas recently, so Ii;d be happy if more where like this.
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by avsteele 3y ago
Yes, this drove at least two people I know/encouraged to use it off the platform. When people see this they also think that Signal snooped their contacts. Very bad.
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by avsteele 3y ago
Thank you!
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by avsteele 3y ago
The article is terrible. What are commenters even discussing without having additional context? The hackers initially got access to around 14,000 accounts using previously compromised login credentials, but they then used a feature of
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by avsteele 3y ago
Really interested in the YoY 2021 vs 2022 and if its related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388
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by avsteele 3y ago
"ok google" : "Set timer for x minutes" works for alarm, etc...
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by avsteele 3y ago
If you are referring to the lead-crime hypothesis That isn't exactly a consensus view. Putting that aside... I wonder if researchers looking for damage from leaded gasoline for those decades? We have been using these types of plastic f
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by avsteele 3y ago
Researchers don’t yet know how dangerous tiny plastics are for human health. In a large review published in 2019, the World Health Organization said there wasn’t enough firm evidence linking microplastics in water to human health, but desc
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by avsteele 3y ago
That's fine safety guidance but on the facts this is not correct. For single and multimode fibers if it has a smaller focal spot some distance the fiber than at its tip you are talking about an assembly that includes the fiber plus an
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by avsteele 3y ago
What types of fibers are you talking about?
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by avsteele 3y ago
I can see 780 nm (rubidium laser cooling light) specularly reflected from an index card at maybe 100 mW, if memory serves.
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by avsteele 3y ago
Guy's name is literally rubidium!
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by avsteele 3y ago
800 nm (NIR) does present hazards. Most people can't se it until the intensity is very high, so you blink reflex doesn't protect you. Having said that, it is probably highly divergent out of the fiber (depends on type). There&#x27
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by avsteele 3y ago
I don't think this is a fair criticism. 1) The step where you evaluate "how they perform" is necessarily subjective. 2) you could design a study and recruit participants but that isn't something a blogger is going to do.
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by avsteele 3y ago
OK. In the case at hand we are dealing with a mathematical function. In->Out is all there is. Back-estimating a mathematical function by sampling is as close to reverse engineering as anything is.
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by avsteele 3y ago
The terms against using the output to develop a competing product seem the same as reverse engineering to me. Competitors can't get OpenAI's model weights but use its outputs to produce a functionally similar model. It's like
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by avsteele 3y ago
I developed tinnitus during a bout of COVID last week. On about the third day I had an earache in one ear. Earache went away after about a day but now I have pretty strong tinnitus in that ear. COVID symptoms long gone now but tinnitus rema

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