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XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms

esa.int
8 points·by layer8·7 days ago·1 comments

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins

reuters.com
6 points·by layer8·9 days ago·1 comments

Introduction to OpenType Programming

simoncozens.github.io
3 points·by layer8·9 days ago·0 comments

Will Earth survive the Sun's death? New study suggests it might.

fys.kuleuven.be
4 points·by layer8·10 days ago·0 comments

2026 Venezuela Earthquakes

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by layer8·15 days ago·0 comments

ISAC Privacy: Challenges and Solutions for 6G

arxiv.org
1 points·by layer8·22 days ago·0 comments

AI reshapes global labour market into two distinct paths, rewarding human skills

pwc.com
3 points·by layer8·23 days ago·0 comments

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

quantamagazine.org
102 points·by layer8·23 days ago·59 comments

Shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX surge after biggest IPO

reuters.com
4 points·by layer8·28 days ago·0 comments

Big Bang Inside a Star: How a Gravastar Forms

uni-frankfurt.de
3 points·by layer8·29 days ago·0 comments

Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe

ras.ac.uk
16 points·by layer8·29 days ago·0 comments

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

leidendeclaration.ai
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Polanyi's Paradox

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by layer8·last month·0 comments

Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80

bbc.com
21 points·by layer8·last month·7 comments

Pope Leo's 'Magnifica humanitas': AI must serve humanity not concentrate power

vaticannews.va
2 points·by layer8·2 months ago·2 comments

"Magnifica Humanitas": Pope Leo XIV Rejects Transhumanism

dianemontagna.substack.com
3 points·by layer8·2 months ago·0 comments

Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
22 points·by layer8·2 months ago·0 comments

Byrne's Euclid

c82.net
50 points·by layer8·2 months ago·16 comments

Europe physicists plan to build 91-kilometer particle collider

science.org
4 points·by layer8·2 months ago·0 comments

Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump

reuters.com
16 points·by layer8·2 months ago·1 comments

comments

layer8
·yesterday·discuss
Cultural bias.
layer8
·yesterday·discuss
That would create much more chaos, because every region autonomously decides on its timezone(s). You'd have different countries and/or timezones using different leap second counts.
layer8
·yesterday·discuss
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#:~:text=Other%20co...
layer8
·yesterday·discuss
Being located in Paris, it would have to be "maître du temps".
layer8
·yesterday·discuss
Someone should establish the Interplanetary Sun Orbiting Service.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
It’s funny the EU hasn’t designated Cloudflare as a Gatekeeper yet.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
It may be good enough to make me more productive, but only because I don’t relent on ensuring that the code is well-reasoned. Indeed, I don’t experience that when I do relent.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
I don’t think that the logical reasoning ability of LLMs depends on the abstraction level. Their heuristic knowledge differs between levels, but that’s a different thing. My concern is the reasoning capabilities.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
What’s interesting to me is reasoning about the problem and its implementation. And that doesn’t stop at any abstraction level. Reasoning in the small is just as important as reasoning in the large. And the issue with LLMs is that their capacity for sound reasoning is limited. They are sloppy on any level. You can’t get them to be thorough and dependable in reasoning, regardless of the abstraction level.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
> Rate of generation/Rate of verification is a proxy for signal to noise ratios

Hopefully you mean Rate of verification/Rate of generation.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
Not sure if they meant that, since the “awful” was referring to the original loop that had no x, but the generic solution in that case is:

    for (size_t i = size; i—- > x;)
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
It works perfectly fine for size = 0?
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
People are doing something (e.g. [0][1][2]). That’s why Chat Control 2.0 hasn’t passed and is unlikely to pass in the foreseeable future.

[0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

[1] https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-must-uphold-pr...

[2] https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/themen/freiheit-im-digitalen-...
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
“Chat Control”, along with the version numbers, is a naming invented by the opponents, not by the proponents.
layer8
·2 days ago·discuss
It decreases legibility by breaking the norms of written communication. That makes it distracting and annoying to read, and makes me want to not engage with it. It’s like talking to someone face-to-face who smells because they chose to not bathe for a week. They might have something worthwhile to say, but it’s difficult to ignore the form being a strong turn-off.
layer8
·3 days ago·discuss
The N100 supports "In-band ECC" (IBECC), which uses regular non-ECC RAM at the cost of less available memory and a 10-20% performance drop. It’s unclear how well it works, and almost nobody uses it.
layer8
·3 days ago·discuss
DDR5 on-die ECC is to achieve acceptable yields in the face of denser process nodes that decrease the reliability of RAM cells. It’s not clear how much of an improvement that is to what we had before, other than allowing for higher RAM speeds. It doesn’t replace side-band ECC.
layer8
·3 days ago·discuss
This isn’t black and white. You might have huge amounts of non-essential data that aren’t worth the cost of off-site backups, but worth the cost of an extra disk of redundancy to lessen the risk. Even when you do have backups, it will reduce the risk of extended downtime (and possibly egress costs) caused by having to restore large amounts of data from backups.
layer8
·3 days ago·discuss
As far as I’m concerned, using the Shift key would already help.
layer8
·3 days ago·discuss
The past has shown that “legitimate” criminals tend to be more careless and have a poorer technical understanding than you’d think.

This is not a defense of surveillance, just that your argument doesn’t hold as well as you might believe.