Verification requires access to classified logs. These logs would attract the spies of the whole world. Even if these logs are in principle for "past actions", in practice past logs (for war games, for example) would compromise future strategy.

Since these manual audits are too risky, the only alternative is to hard-code limits into the AI. But are we ready trust an AI to "judge" a mission and refuse to execute during a crisis?

Anthropic wanted technical enforcement, the Pentagon wanted trust.

It’s a choice between two bad options: an unaccountable military and an unreliable AI kill switch. They are both very dangerous, just in different ways.

"All measurements were performed at 20° ± 0.2°C maintained by an air circulation system unless otherwise noted. The temperature of the films was controlled using a heating/cooling unit (THMS350V, Linkam Scientific Instruments, Salfords, UK) when necessary."

So the latent heat is conducted away by the cooling apparatus, it's just not explicitly stated, to sound more sensational.

Let's assume a $40 bag fee: $25 cost to handle the bag, $3 tax, $12 profit.

If people pay for the bags separately, in addition to their $220 ticket, they will only pay for utilized bags, so for 1 bag, the profit will be $12.

If the $300 ticket bundle includes 2 allowed bags, but people only check 1 bag, then the profit is: $80 - 2$6 (tax) - 1$25 (cost) = $49 profit, more than 4 times bigger!

The real reason is the comparison sites as the HN commenters pointed out, but the result is not always bad, because the savings is real in many cases as people indeed would only pay for one bag on average ($220+$40 = $260) instead of $300.

I think airlines are much less happy with the separated fees than consumers, but once one airline does it, the others are forced to do it. The same happened with the international trips, which clearly has no tax reason. Many years ago it included 2 pieces of 70-pound bags, then 2 50-pound bags, then 1 50-pound bag, and now in many cases, on basic tickets, nothing at all.

One would assume they would not want to pay for unnecessary tests for healthy people.

So either their own research shows they save money with annual checkups in spite of what the article says, or more sinisterly, they do want to spend money to be able to justify higher premiums, because in several states they are required to spend around 80% of the premiums, and this is one easily plannable way.

Does anyone know? Perhaps someone working for an insurance company?

Most likely they just use the reported message to train their spam filter, not to block the particular sender number of that message.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/contract-summa...

On the other hand, people in more industrial countries are exposed to different chemicals (BPA, FPOAs, flame retardants, food additives, etc.), than people in more agrarian countries (field chemicals, like fertilizers and pesticides). These chemicals are all harmful, but it's hard to blame a single class of them for a global problem.

If I had to pick a truly universal issue, I would say childhood and young adult obesity. Surprisingly, obesity is growing rapidly even in countries where hunger is also a problem.

Python3 is up and coming, and eventually it will get there, but old machines must die before it can reach ubiquity.

"Guest Mode": (1) hides the identity on the internet, and (2) hides the activity on the local machine.

"Incognito window": (2 only) hides the activity on the local machine.

To clear the confusion, "Incognito mode" should simply be renamed "Ephemeral mode" or "Transient mode" or "No-Save mode".

Manipulating ions requires a lot of current. Drop an AA battery to a soup and nothing remarkable happens quickly, but lick the same battery and you will definitely feel it immediately.

If you do it while something sour/salty is in your mouth, your tongue may get confused, since it's only prepared to detect 5 flavors plus hot and cold, and it may simply assigns the extra feeling to the strongest sour/salty/umami taste currently experienced.

The electronics is probably just to cut the current when the two chopsticks touch to prevent short circuit.

There are similar articles from a few years ago, like this: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a15702/simulatin...

These are reasonable conditions, but apparently they are not easy to pass.

I think the texting while driving is the more interesting one: a bunch of states don't care too much (Arizona, Montana, etc.), some others only impose a small $25 fine, so young people may not think about it as a huge obstacle to a high-paying job much later.

Surprisingly low percent of truck drivers can pass this.

Plus, many trucks have a driver-facing camera, no privacy.

Tesla cars are not licensed for operation without a control of a driver. It's unlikely Tesla (the company) would take the financial responsibility to cause any damage or injury during an unlicensed operation without a driver.

Straight from the Model S manual:

"Model S may not detect certain obstacles, including those that are very narrow (e.g., bikes), lower than the fascia, or hanging from the ceiling. As such, Summon requires that you continually monitor your vehicle's movement and surroundings while it is in progress, and that you remain prepared to stop the vehicle at any time using the Tesla mobile app, by pressing any button on the key fob, or by pressing any Model S door handle."

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/Model_S_release_no...

The 5840 built-in functions provide easy ways to get many useful things done with minimal dabbling.

In other words, one can be a "scripter" instead of a "programmer", and for many projects that's 100% OK.

Other languages automatically filter out "scripters" from their field by demanding a certain level of mental abstraction to produce anything moderately useful.

While there is absolutely no difference between a good programmer using PHP, or a good programmer using any other language/environment, but there is a big difference between the median levels and below.

This in turn lowers the reputation of the field, and it becomes uncool to put PHP on one's resume, therefore the more capable programmers propagate out to other languages, which further lowers the median, etc.

This happened with Perl, too...

South Korea vs. North Korea clearly shows the effect of food availability. Same genetics.

No one said the solution was easy, only that the solution was simple. But very hard.

But which one is easier to live with?

(1) "this is in my control, but it is too hard, and I am too weak to do it", or (2) "this is NOT in my control, and I'm failing due to the circumstances, in spite of doing the most possible"

The bar is indeed getting lower, for better or worse.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55623722