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Comment Re:So OpenAI are criminals? (Score 2) 155

There was no "tens of thousands of actions trying to probe (the) site for weaknesses all at once" - you literally made that up, access was gained by stolen credentials, as noted in the very first sentence of TFS.

The incident report's actual words were:
  The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework ... executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes,

Comment Syllogism [Re:incentives] (Score 2) 155

....(because LLMs cannot actually do things like that with proper protections in place) so it is intent.

Ooh! I love syllogisms.

1. LLMs cannot actually do things like that with proper protections in place.
2. A LLM did that.
3. Conclusion?

Conclusion: proper protections were not in place.

Comment Starbucks [Re:Black coffee] (Score 1) 179

Yes and no. Starbucks seems dominant and they over-roast their coffee. It works well for the super sugary espresso drinks but terrible for anything else.

Bingo, I think you nailed it. Starbucks wants to sell you those fancy syrupy latte caramel drinks, and to get any coffee flavor at all after they add all the sugary sweet gunk and cream, they need a super dark roast.

If you just want coffee, not a desert-in-a-cup, go anywhere else. Your local indy coffeehouse, for example.

Comment Known for decades [Re:The more things change...] (Score 1) 179

The only thing you can be sure of is that every couple of years, you'll get different advice on the health effects of coffee.

Simply not true. Beneficial effects of coffee have been known for decades. This work is simply confirming what previous studies have already shown.
  https://time.com/4116129/coffe...
  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
  http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
  https://www.medicalnewstoday.c...

Comment What do they define as a "cup" (Score 1) 179

This mostly isn't new, just confirming what has been seen in studies going back decades https://time.com/4116129/coffe...

But an important question is, what do they define as a "cup"?

Years back, a "cup" of coffee was defined as a teacup, maybe five ounces. When I drink coffee, I use a coffee mug, which is perhaps twice the size of a teacup. Maybe more, for some of the extra-large coffee mugs.

I took a quick scan through the paper, searching on "cup", but didn't see an actual cup volume given.

Comment Re:Funny ... (Score 1) 119

Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof

That's what I said about AGW. And do you know what most people told me?

I know what I told you. I told you that, for a start, read the IPCC working group 1 report "The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change".
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6...

The way you can tell when people who claim to be skeptics aren't, is that when you tell them where to find the answer to their questions they don't want to hear it.

Many being the same people here trying to sell AGI.

I have never tried to sell AGI. (And I most certainly don't think large language models are AGI, or are ever going to evolve into AGI or anything like it.)

Comment Re:Wish Australia had it, even the equatorial part (Score 1) 263

We have DST, but only some states. But the sun coming up at 4:45am in summer sucks up near the tropics and makes no sense.

Well, this particular discussion is about a (not yet enacted) law concerning DST in the United States, and none of the states are in the topics except Hawaii, which does not use DST.

Comment Re:Can't Channge The Universe (Score 1) 263

You can't change the universe, nor the solar system. There's very specific reasons why the Sun reaches its zenith(daily peak) at mid day(12:00).

The sun does not reach its zenith at 12:00.

If you defined noon as the time of the sun reaching its zenith, days would no longer be the same length. Days in northern hemisphere winter would be slightly longer than 24 hours, and days in northern hemisphere summer would be shorter, due to the difference between sidereal time and solar time.

Comment Re:More dead Americans (Score 3, Insightful) 263

Driving to work in darkness, schoolchildren crossing streets, in winter.

When the daylight hours are short in winter, you have to pick some time in which it's darkness. If it's light during the morning commute, it will be dark during the evening commute.

This depends on how far north you are, of course.

Comment most of the US slightly west of their solar time (Score 1) 263

Most US population centers are in places east of the point in their time zones where the sun is overhead (or due south) at noon,

Unless I'm misreading the map, on the East coast, the EST time zone is pretty much centered on where it should be, with New York very slightly east and Washington DC very slightly west of center. The main problem with EST is that it extends west to the city limits of Chicago, while it should change to CST around Toledo.

If anything, most of the population in the US is slightly to the western edge of the time zones, not the east.

Submission + - Gravitricity energy storage goes bankrupt, but two others keep on trying (autonocion.com)

Geoffrey.landis writes: Gravitricity, a Scottins corporation that proposed using gravitational potential energy to store electrical energy, went bankrupt at the end of 2025. The basic idea is so simple, even a freshman physics student could describe it: use an electric motor to raise a weight up against gravity, and then when you need energy, lower the weight back down, and use the energy to run a generator. The difficulty, however, is in scale. Their proof of concept unit, a 40-ton block of steel falling the height of a 30-story building, stores an amount of energy equal to about eight hours of an average American home’s electricity. Their solution was to go big: there are literally millions of abandoned mine shafts around the world, many of them kilometer and more deep. They proposed a full GraviStore system would hang up to 24 separate weights of 500 metric tons each from cabled winches inside a single shaft. Twelve thousand metric tons of suspended steel, going up and down forever. But turning their concept into a reality ended up spending money faster than it could be invested, and, so quietly it took investors three months to even notice, the company went bankrupt.
But the basic concept may not be dead. Several other companies are still working at turning the concept into reality. And hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines are scattered across the United States, most of them a liability, a few of them with a kilometer of free vertical drop and a hoist house and a grid connection already sitting on site.

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