It seems like quite the hassle to have to pull out one's phone every time one enters or leaves a room just to turn on lights?

Let's hope you don't have to get to the bathroom quickly late at night...

As a another comment said, the smarter way to have a smart light is to replace the switch with a smart one or even better put a relay behind the existing dumb switch to smartify the switch. For me it's important to have a manual override; you shouldn't need an app for a thing as basic as turning the lights on.

The only rooms without a fully automated light on/off systems in our house are the bedrooms + living room.

And even the living room automatically adjusts lights based on the playing status of the AppleTV (playing = dim, pause = brighten up a bit).

Oh and the staircase, haven't found the motivation/courage to climb up 10m to the ceiling to switch out the ye olde light in there :D Maybe this year?

The Living room would need two presence sensors that talk to each other in a smart way (a big room, one isn't enough) and I haven't yet found the semi-manual way of adjusting the lights via phone/Siri to be too cumbersome to bother.

Disabling the physical light switch should usually only come after setting up a different way of controlling the light by hand, without a phone.

Most likely there is some sort of motion or presence sensor that turns on the lights which then turn themselves off after some time or no more presence is detected. There are also small wireless switches that could be used in place of the actual wall switch.

I have done so in my apartment for example. Since the bedroom light switch is for some reason outside of the room I taped it down and put a wireless switch in a more reasonable spot. Another example is the hallway light, which only turns on by motion sensing when the sun is starting to go down.

Have you tried edibles or another method than smoking?

Yes and they cause panic attacks, but they last even longer. So that's cool.

I have not done weed for ages, but while smoking would always give me anxiety, vaping much less so.

How much of this process is cleaning up from the previous run and how much is purely for starting up the process again? Does it make sense to clean up the system as soon as you can after shutdown, in preparation for restart, whenever that may be?

It’s one and the same. The sodium and other atoms from the molten cryolite intercalate into the carbon cathode structure and swell it by a few percent. Once in use, a cathode is held together by the steel shell and thermal equilibrium of the running pot. Once it cools the cracking is inevitable.

You also can’t fully drain a pot. You can siphon most of the aluminum and cryolite off but at those temperatures they behave like a proper liquid with surface tension and the metal wicks into the pot like solder instead of flowing with gravity.

The system is just build for continuous usage and any shutdown does major damage.

To keep it running at reduced capacity will likely be less expensive unless the war goes on for a very long time.

If you care about communicating an idea or concept effectively, things like capitalization and grammar are absolutely important.

What's the difference for those 1 billion?

He thinks the others are NPCs

The "correlation is not causation" argument gets brought up every single time such a study is shared on HN, so I'm not sure what you mean by "picked a funny time"?

Anyway there's no reason to discount it, but it does mean you can't run with the assumption that there is causation.

I don't think psychology is useless, not one bit. But specifically the way modern papers publish findings make me distrust basically all statistical studies in the social sciences, aside from even the most basic philosophical issues that arise from these kinds of studies (people are very different, etc.).

Like even if you accept a bunch of premises to make the studies even work, the raw stats are often so bad and there's no rigor to try and actually explain alternatives that I just have stopped reading them entirely.

Again, I'm not one to hate on the social sciences. History, anthropology, politics, law, psychology, sociology, all of that is very interesting and important. But the horrible statistics that don't understand garbage in garbage out have turned me off of it. Much rather read qualitative studies that actually try to gather detailed, real data, even if it's not as automated as a random survey

There are various systems meant to (attempt to) prevent it from happening, yes, from firearms laws to police forces

But picking out murder and ignoring the other ones which are far more analogous to the regulations mentioned seems a bit disingenuous...

Looks like there's a lot more info here, at least about the text version.

https://ai.google.dev/responsible/docs/safeguards/synthid

Why was the title changed from its original that mentioned it's owned by Peter Thiel?

Because it's clickbait. The company has several major VC investors, and Thiel is one partner at one of them.

I wonder how Tao - or a supermodel - might feel about the idea that they don't have to work for their "gifts"

Not a mystery, Tao has written about how, child prodigy aside, he has to work at math on a regular basis with grit and perseverance.

There's story of how Tao almost failed at university due to playing so much Civilization