how fast does a fire have to be to become an explosion?

Greater than zero, but not by much.

https://knowledge.gexcon.com/d...

Yes. It's not really comparable to high explosive detonations. It's kind of like that data centre that made the news for releasing a Hiroshima of energy every day!!

Trump Loses More Control Over AI Regulation As Illinois Passes Landmark Law

Not really

The headline you disputed is that Trump, the president of the United States, has lost more control over AI regultation. Your evidence was that federal law supercedes the state law the article is talking about. Since the president doesn't make federal law, your objection is irrelevant.

You may wish to refresh your knowledge of what a straw man is, review your own argument, or stop and think for more than thirty nanoseconds before replying.

It is.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/n...

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958:

DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE
Sec. 102. (a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.

(c) The aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be conducted so as to contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:

(7) Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act and in the peaceful application of the results, thereof; and

Manned spacecraft came from ICBMs, not the other way around. Mercury is properly called Mercury-Redstone after the Redstone ICBM.

It does seem like a contradiction, but Sodium batteries are safer than Lithium.

Neither sodium nor lithium batteries have elemental sodium or lithium in them. The flammable part is the electrolyte, which is usually an organic oil. Lithium batteries today are much safer than they used to be because electrolytes evolved to be less flammable.

One of the reasons sodium batteries are generally less flammable is because they can't discharge as fast. That's not necessarily a good thing.

There's a lot of papers, many which appear here on /., talking up alternative non lithium battery chemistries because "they're cheaper". The assumption often is that lithium is somehow rare.

The thing is that's it's just not lithium cheaply accessible

I'm not quite sure what you're going for here. It sounds like you're the one making the assumption.

The president of the United States does not (at this time) have the authority to pass laws. An actual law in a jurisdiction willing to enforce it does indeed decrease the amount of control exerted by an executive acting on its own, particularly when that executive wants there to be no law.

Unless he invades. And then, well....

The user simply has to visit an infected site.

Modern ads are basically websites so permissionless attacks don't even need you to visit a specific one, just some site that happens to show a bad ad. Punch the monkey and win!

It wouldn't. Bell's inequality has several assumptions. People are still writing papers about what exactly they are. Bell himself spent decades writing papers on the topic.

The big three are realism, locality and independence. Roughly, realism is hidden variables, locality is no faster than light communication and independence is the magical ability of two things to never be influenced by each other or any common cause. At least one of these assumptions cannot be true if Bell's inequality is not satisfied.

You can probably guess which one I think is the most likely culprit.

The big thing is that it's certifiably random. Shot noise can be influenced by environmental factors, so can lava lamps.

Shot noise also has potential issues, depending on the application, that it is Poisson distributed so the variance is determined by the mean. It can also carry correlations if you're using charged particles because they repel each other.

Management must be a terribly frustrating job. Especially if you didn't start out as one. Your boss wants something they probably can't explain very well, you might not know enough to explain it precisely either, and you can't do it yourself, so you need to indirectly get a bunch of other people to do it for you. Like fixing a something over the phone.

During my post doc I added a feature to a twenty year old piece of software that was still in regular use. I mentioned it to the guy who wrote it originally, who was now a senior professor. He just looked sad and said "I wish I could still do that."

Management seems to suffer from fads. I had a friend whose company brought in a psychologist to give a talk, then she spent the next year diagnosing her underlings with personality disorders and planning out treatment regimes for them.

Now they've all heard about AI. They don't really know what it is or what it can do, but everyone's talking about it so they better be too.

Yes, exactly.

why not? a browser is an excellent platform for that and the security considerations seem reasonable too. the problem i see is making it unnecessarily accessible. it should not be enabled by default.

I think a browser is a terrible platform for anything you want to be remotely secure. A browser is a thing that downloads arbitrary software off the Internet. That's its function.

On the other hand, an HTML/Javascript/CSS renderer does make a pretty good GUI front end. These are provided as part of the system by every major OS now, and building a cross platform application using them seems fine. All the benefits, but you can strictly control how it connects to the Internet, from no connection to control only, to downloading signed updates only from your own site. No users opening a new tab, browsing to rnicrosoft.com and clicking yeah yeah sure on the popup asking for Abstract Control Model access to your chemical plant.

There is a genuine use for more capable browsers. Projects like WLED let users easily program LED strip controllers without having to install anything and the education people seem to think web based IDEs are a good idea. It would be nice if the browser makers could come up with options a little better than a little popup to protect those functions though. Something like a kernel module, where it's fairly easy to install but you have to consciously do so ahead of time.