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A while back someone posted the training docs for Facebook moderation and they were actually quite solid. A lot of detail, a lot of nuance, not quite the individual touch you get at Ars but like way better than you'd expect. Not that much leniency for humor and hyperbole at scale, but bad actors...

Which would be cool, if Europe was more than a blip on the radar. I'm looking at a list of companies by market cap now and in the top 50: #21 ASML, Netherlands ($0.6 T) #40 Roche, Switzerland($0.3 T) #47 HSBC, UK ($0.3 T) That that's the only three from Europe, the top 5 are all American and...

Sadly it fits the greater picture I'm seeing, the next big battle isn't going to be between workers and capitalists, not the regular kind with basic stocks/bonds anyway. It's going to be the battle between the billionaire class and the rest of us, the people who change the rules of game itself...

Nobody really wants to find out if launching one nuke really would lead to armageddon or not. That's what mutually assured destruction is all about but would you really pull the pin on what's effectively your own suicide vest too? It's best to keep everyone convinced that any use of nukes for...

That assumes that these people never ever consented to sharing any video with Meta though, which would be a much bigger story and therefore almost certainly not the case. It is way more likely these people opted in to share their work/hobby activity and forgot the sharing was still on as they...

Hoarding was never really the problem, it's practically impossible to widely deploy any technology without a substantial number of employees involved in the process and a lot of things that would border on industrial espionage today was completely legal back then. Getting your invention patented...

I mean you could try but making better risk/reward predictions than the competition is like their whole business model. They wouldn't want to clue the competition in on anything they missed so I imagine you'll get the blandest corporate answers possible.

I mean even those of us who did the work probably did it to launch our careers not because we have that deep a love of the subject. And I don't think it's unique to higher education, I don't think a plumber would go around fixing pipes for the love of plumbing if they weren't paid for it. If you...

Many things aren't the same but soft landing/takeoff on a previously unprepared surface should be kind of similar even though the G-forces are different. It's also the first time SpaceX is dealing with long term life support systems. But I guess I was implicitly thinking of all the bits that are...

I'm hoping that as soon as HLS is somewhat proven they'll try ordering a soft touchdown to deploy a rover on Mars. Actually demonstrating delivery at human G-forces would be a great tech demo, right now it's all theoretical.

But is it a deal breaker? My washing machine takes hours, so does my dryer. If this geriatric sloth can take the clothes in my dirty clothes hamper, put them in the machine, run the program, collect them from the machine, fold and stow in the 8-9 hours I'm at work that's great! Of course human...

A few days and a teleporter, one of the advantages of separate missions is that they've been sent to different places on Mars. A crewed mission would explore one little area around the landing site very well and anywhere else not at all. Considering the effort of doing it once I wouldn't count...

I mean it's just a reflection of that people know these "reality" shows in particular are 100% manufactured drama both in participant selection, competition format and editing. As far as I'm concerned fake fake drama is no worse than real fake drama, with cartoon characters you can just go even...

I think the kids might object when you tell people you "took them to Disneyland" though.

A man born in 1923 has walked on the moon, it blows my mind. It's way overdue that we make a few new ones, hopefully today is a big step in that direction.

In-orbit assembly from Falcon 9-sized parts would have been it's own experiment though. It's only with Starship and New Glenn that you can launch the kind of modules that's been traditionally used, Crew Dragon is a very tiny shuttle to LEO by comparison. The problem is that so much time has...

Most likely they're heading towards a dead end. Once you do reasonably well compressed HDR video with REC.2020 colorspace in 4/8K resolution with 3D audio how much further is there to go? A good MP3 from the 90s is still basically CD quality and if you could save a few bytes it doesn't matter...

You could also combine this with the idea of a core module. NASA orders from SpaceX a central hub that provides power, communication, station keeping, docking port(s), life support, living quarters (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom etc.), storage space and literally nothing else. Work out some sort of...

HBM is ground zero for the price explosion, all the most expensive AI hardware use it. DDR5 is just caught in the blast radius as capacity is redirected, I wonder what AMD and Intel is thinking though. They must be looking at Apple's integrated RAM and thinking we could do that.

Somehow needy whiny teen drama being Dr. Strange's kryptonite feels perfectly on point to me. Like the whole universe could be collapsing around him and no biggie, but being forced to listen to that is like an itch you can't scratch and it's driving him crazy. If there was a thought bubble I'm...