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Yeah hate to say it, but you're probably right. AI hype is the tech equivalent of a land war in Asia.

The only slight consolation though I find is that this time when the fog clears it's not going to be a complete waste as we're going to have much improved data engineering processes, data gathering methodologies, some scale improvements and improved data parallelism and a further sizeable portion of the research field will be cut off and put into the "that's not real AI" category and used in production software. There will be doom mongers, but if we come out of this with a much more professionalized interaction between software and the physical world then it was all still worth it all.

Come back again in 15 years and we'll find a new generation taking yet another crack at this building on the missteps of the now.
Bezos is an active leader of a major company. Gates is a shareholder of a major company who has little if anything to do with it anymore. It’s not really comparable.
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> Healthy kids are a value to society

Kids have a massive carbon footprint and are probably the worst thing the average person in a first world country can do to the environment.
Agreed, but that assumes:
1) that he has the power to do so
2) that Mitchell and Gebru want to join Apple

At the moment, we don't know either of these assumptions.
Super interesting fact here..

>.COM

>This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern about the administrative load and system performance if the current growth pattern is continued.
Contrary to Previous Belief, Strike-Slip Faults Can Generate Large Tsunamis
The quote from the paper asserts republicans and democrats self-sort in housing choices by weighting different property features - walkability, yard size - differently.

The study extract asserts that people do not use the partisan composition of communities to make housing decisions.

This are not exclusive assertions. At first glance they even look complimentary.
I think one of the less discussed advantages of SQL and reasons why it might be so prevalent in the analytics world is that users don't really need to spend much time to set up their environment. I can send a query to a less technical person with my analysis for them to run. They can put the processed data into a spreadsheet and do whatever they want.
The public transit is poor because it wasn't liberalized along with the property zoning. If the government is the only one allowed to do public transit then a company won't come along as trying to compete with the government (which would be suicide). People all over the west (US, Canada, and Europe) try really hard to ignore the amazing success that is Japan's public transit system (that's mostly privatized).
GTA VI ;)
goatse dot org is a real website too, but thankfully it just has text which says "hello.jpg" instead of the actual goatse
I have a distinct memory of a high school class:

We were being taught about the internet. The teacher made a weirdly specific rant about how wikipedia was unsafe. Two slides later and we were told that org domains were more trustable than com. I pointed out that wikipedia was an org domain. I was sent to the principal's office.

Fun times.
Covering index is right.

Select * has a few valid use cases.

If you're selecting from a cte or subquery then writing the same column list twice is redundant and increases complexity/risk of mistakes.

* is also harmless for count and exists.
Kind of a post hoc ergo propter hoc situation.
Swiss Billionaire Quietly Becomes Influential Force Among Democrats
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/04/26/christian-elliots...

> This is a half-truth that antivaxxers just love. It’s a half-truth in that, yes, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 did require that claims for vaccine injury go through a special “Vaccine Court”, setting up a system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP or VICP), with the compensation fund funded by a tax on each dose of vaccine. However, the reason for this act was that there were so many dubious lawsuits being filed in the wake of the scare over the DPT vaccine in the 1980s that there was a real fear that vaccine manufacturers would simply stop supplying vaccines to the US due to liability concerns. Moreover, as I’ve discussed many times, the Vaccine Court is actually an easier court for complainants than standard civil court. The standards of evidence are, as has been described, 50% and a feather, the court allows “theories of causation” that no regular court would allow, and there are certain “table injuries” known to be caused by vaccines for which compensation is automatic. Even better for complainants, win or lose, the Court pays reasonable court costs. Moreover, if complainants fail, they can still take their case to federal civil court. The law only mandates that they first go through the Vaccine Court.
I don't remember the exact details, but I did try the G command, and it didn't work out. The problem was something like the program had nowhere to return to, so just ending with RTS would crash, and ending with a call to ExitToShell() would just restart At Ease and put you right back in the secure environment. I had to trick the computer into executing the program as a subroutine from inside another running program, which is accomplished by using the drag hook.
White House discussing plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance
How is that not "failing to revolutionize how we transact"? A promise of cryptocurrency was precisely that regulators and entrenched interests wouldn't be able to fight it effectively.

Finding out that they in fact can do so, and that the result is only incremental/marginal improvements to the system, is a falsification of that premise.
Agree with your general sentiment, however your wording invites one to play devil's advocate.

>Have loyalty for individuals, and sometimes even teams, but never ever ever ever feel loyalty for a corporation.

That's exactly what an individual would say!

Is it OK to feel loyalty for a nation, then? Considering membership in one is involuntary - and that corporations don't, as a rule, exercise a monopoly on violence against their employees?

>Corporations are not people [...] from a "conscious being" perspective.

>If it helped you in some way, it wasn't intentionally; it just happened that its own interests overlapped with your own for a blip in time.

That depends on your perspective on consciousness and intentionality. I understand that the subject is not open to debate for the majority of individuals here, so I won't bore you with elaborations.

Suffice to say, if you weren't aware of the varying opinions on those, you could start by googling the "Chinese brain" thought experiment.

>But the nanosecond that its interests run contrary to yours, it will swiftly trample you into the ground and will be incapable of feeling sorry about it.

This can be said for sufficiently many individuals that we have a designation for them: psychopaths.

When an individual acts like this, we go out of our way to reproach them. When a corporation does this, it's normal value maximization. A double standard, maybe?

Moreover, humans have kept their place on top of the food pyramid for so long because corporations didn't have nanosecond-scale temporal resolution. However, thanks to the IT community's efforts, this is subject to change.
> The result is a type focusing on callback transformation:

> type BIO inp out = (Maybe out -> IO ()) -> Maybe inp -> IO ()

Huh, neat! Looks like profunctor optics to me. ("Callback transformation" is a really good way to think about profunctor optics, honestly. The "profunctor" part describes the kind of callback you're transforming.)

Generalize slightly:

type (:>>:) s t = Maybe s -> IO t
type BIO' s t a b = (s :>>: t) -> (a :>>: b)
type BIO inp out = BIO' out () inp ()

Tweaked just a bit further, to highlight the similarity with general profunctor optics:

type BIO' s t a b = (Profunctor p, p ~ (:>>:)) => p s t -> p a b

That is, BIO' is the type of optics that only work specifically for the profunctor :>>:. (As it happens, `f a -> g b` is a profunctor for any pair of functors `f` and `g`.)

With either representation, you should be able to compose BIO transformations with general prisms and get BIO transformations back. (Lenses are out; I don't think you can implement `Strong` for `:>>:`.)

instance Choice (:>>:) where
-- left' :: (Maybe a -> IO b) -> (Maybe (Either a c) -> IO (Either b c))
left' :: (a :>>: b) -> ((Either a c) :>>: (Either b c))
left' f Nothing = fmap Left (f Nothing)
left' f (Just (Left a)) = fmap Left (f (Just a))
left' f (Just (Right c)) = fmap Right (return c)
Could you add "Recruiter can contact: Y/N"?
I assumed you were referring to how people normally conversed in Kannada :)

Personally, I don't consider TV Kannada to be indicative of the language spoken on the streets or in the homes of the city. I would be concerned if this headline had made its appearance in print; I don't think that has happened yet.

Every language tends to evolve and borrow some amount of vocabulary from other languages. I've seen this to be especially true when the spoken and written forms are different, as is the case with quite a few Indian languages. The language spoken on the street is not textbook Kannada - it hasn't been textbook Kannada in forever! None of "Hegidiya Guru" or "Yenu Maga" or "Bro!" is a textbook example of an interpersonal greeting - you'd be hard pressed to find the first one in vogue these days, it is now history. The spoken form continues to evolve on its own. (I can see this being the case with at least three other languages).
That is what I do. I don't want to assume that because I "feel no effect" that I'm still fine, I want to be able to measure that "I'm fine".
You use an iPad for reading. I don't see it. It truly should feel magic for it to make sense in an Apple device.

The crease in the fold should be non-existent: no color bleeding, no weird reflections, it must be a perfectly flat screen. Apple extremely picky about image quality.

Also, water and dust resistance must be amazing.

They already sold a phone with a folded screen before (iPhone X has a fold at the bottom to hide control lines), so they may be looking at the tech with a different use case in mind.

For example I could see them looking at foldable screen tech to make the bezel disappear (iPhone X screen trick, but taken to the extreme).

Picture an iPad/iPhone which is just a perfectly flat piece of screen, no bezel (or a very thin one), no notch, no edge aberrations (like the curved screens some smartphones have). Essentially Job's vision.
> Would you buy AOL and Yahoo for $5?

Absolutely. I'd then sell Yahoo's Finance and Fantasy Sports divisions off for a couple billion dollars profit, and try to flip the rest of Yahoo at a pawn shop so I'm not stuck with that absolutely cursed company.
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> Kids have a massive carbon footprint and are probably the worst thing a person in the first world can do to the environment.

This is true in exactly the same broken sense of value “to the environment” that mass murder (especially of the young and rich) is the best thing one can do to the environment.
There is a static link on his website.
That has nothing to do with the quality of a product, rather a personal preference for having something that's not internet connected.
Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
I dislike patents but there's also the element of risk. Most inventions flop.
A pretty good percentage of people are just going to remember it as burrito.com. Alternate TLDs are fine for clickable media, but fall apart in print form.
I expected this to be about actual Unix Magic numbers, which are how UNIX/Linux/BSD/etc. determines file types. [0]

Unix Magic was only one out of three posters in a set. Unix Feuds. Unix Views. Unix Magic. You can see them all on an image search. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unix+views%22+or+%22unix+feuds%22+OR+%22unix+magic%22+poster
This reads like an ingame cyberpunk event involving a corpo feud.
Now this is a use-case for blockchain. Kinda like the USA has legalized some forms of corruption as "lobbying".

Put all likes (and dislikes!) on a public append-only ledger, and allow people to buy and sell them freely and publicly. Advertising and social proof rolled into one - after all, money is the best social proof we've been able to invent.

Users who care about organic original types of things are then free to filter out bought likes and look at just the ad-free graph.
Transfer payments don't need to be in the tax code. You can e.g. tax land at a higher rate and write all people a check for the same number.

Sweden and Denmark and the Netherlands have less progressive income taxes than the US. Rather than encoding transfers in the tax code, they perform them via programs, leaving them with a more redistributive system.

> A wealthier person in a city could pay for an expensive skyscraper apartment or a taller or higher quality home on a narrow footprint and not pay significantly more tax than someone in a shorter house or lower apartment.

Sounds like pro-social behavior.

Today the rich buy shops in Manhattan and turn them into garages, lowering the value of the property and thus the tax revenue that New York gets. Rather than being rewarded for squandering, folks should be incentivized to make good use of the space they're taking up. If someone wants to turn a productive business into storage for their toys, that's fine, but we shouldn't be giving them a discount for doing it.
If there are any humans actually investigating this on YouTube's side, they aren't trying very hard. A single web conference and any confusion would be gone.
A New Paradigm for Lossy Media Compression
Pyccel https://github.com/pyccel/pyccel translates Python3 to C or Fortran and is intended for numerical Python code. I have played with it, and it works pretty well.
I wish the media would prefer using machine learning (ML) over artificial intelligence (AI) in their headlines.

But the headline "Artificial intelligence fails to adapt" is more outrageous.
Chrome was launched in Sep 2008.

It's really, really hard to move market share quickly.
Many types of telemetry and sensor data models; vast networks of machines can generate a stupendous quantity of events. UUIDs are not good design choice in these cases but it is a hard requirement for some users for compatibility with legacy systems which require a 128-bit unique identifier for everything.

Another issue with probabilistic UUIDs, possibly more important than collisions, is that they don’t compress very well when stored.
AI has a much larger "An Executive heard it in a marketing pitch from an external consultant or at an AI conference" to "Engineering implementation" gap.
Evidence comes in many forms.

There's definitely evidence unless the govt is completely fabricating the existence of these injuries (which is unlikely).
If someone has high property taxes and has trouble paying them, they either (1) bought a house they couldn't actually afford, or (2) have made a lot of money on their house.

For (1), that's unfortunate, but doesn't garner a lot of sympathy.

For (2), we should do some rebranding where the house itself pays the taxes and no one feels pressured to take it out of their own pocket if they don't want to.
Yes. If you believe the earth is flat, it’s best to avoid the subject.
100%. And I work for a company that (I think? I've never actually run the model myself) that deploys an AI model. It's pretty good. It hits 95% accuracy. Solves a real pain point for humans.

It's also totally in something where it's obvious that this should work. We aren't even using "latest and greatest" ML algos, I'm pretty sure what we are using is a really cobbled together ML stuff from a few years ago, probably "latest and greatest" from half a decade ago when ML was just kicking up.

But holy shit, there are so many interconnecting and annoying bits in the non-ML part of the stack (where I am). Our codebase has gotten rather messy (for understandable reason) trying to negotiate leaky abstractions between different clients needs and international standards (and we're only in 3 countries)... And we have a very broken data pipeline (It works well enough to get the job done but I don't sleep well at night) for making sure there are good pulls for the ML engineers to deal with -- and this is code written by folks who should know better about concepts like data gravity, just when you're doing it hastily on startup timescales and startup labor it's (understandably) not going to come out pretty. And all of this is why I haven't even had time to poke into the AI bits, not even stand up an instance for localdev.

Supposedly our competitors aren't even using real AI, just mechanically turked stuff. Yeah. Of course. Just the real messy domain of dealing with these human systems is bad enough to sink a ton of money without even getting to the point where you have enough money to buy some expensive data scientists and ML engineers.
The NixOS solution to that is `buildFHSUserEnv` (soon to use bubblewrap under the hood) but obviously that's not ideal.

`nix bundle` (coming with the upcoming flakes feature) promises to make Nix-built binaries runnable without nix, for the opposite of what you want.
It’s also a wildly diverse multi-cultural melting pot full of interesting entrepreneurs from all over the word, and a place that offers significant upward mobility to millions of people.
What could go wrong? (serious question!)
Yes, the above scenario is quite risky. And if the inventor "got screwed" then that's on them for agreeing to sell for a price that's less than the value of the invention. That said, execution is also very important. Ideas don't build companies.
When you download the audio file, its just called download.mp3

It should instead keep the name of the video file, and just have the mp3 extension. It looks like you already have this filename in the preview audio player widget.

Also, there doesn't seem to be any caching of the files. Might be good to look in to something for that as well.
What company would buy the IP for a vaccine and not produce it? They cost billions to fund. It isn't sustainable to buy and sit on patents unless there are judges willing to uphold invalid patents for patent trolls, which is what has been happening with software patents.
I'm not really sure why the author is taking the behavior of this VCV guy so personally, is there some new community expectation that a single maintainer trying to survive running an open source software modular synth project is also supposed to e.g. gracefully answer misc technical questions on community support channels? All of the sections in this post describing some aspect of the toxic culture fail to deliver, and mostly just sound like entitlement to this specific maintainer's time, which sounds fairly limited.

Also, unrelated but cool modules. I envy the artistic ability that goes into the theming the author did.
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Comscore’s data collection relies on users installing their shady monitoring software - I imagine users who install such software are significantly more likely to have a yahoo email account. Same issue with Alexa ranks.
When they DHH+Jason laid the 7 of us off from Highrise (the Basecamp CRM spin-off) no one even showed up online to say anything to us on our last day. Just the Head of Devops to turn off our access to things. (That guy at least apologized for no-one else being there) :/
Has the average American’s life really changed because of Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden? Regardless of the political figurehead, there has been a consistent trend towards lower wages and rising inequality.

Biden is ending the 20 years of continuous war we were knowingly lied into by the Bush administration. It's hard to fathom what impact the $6+ trillion we burned in Iraq could have had domestically. The friends and families of the 150k+ human beings who were murdered in this illegal war don't see this a "wrestling match". If Bush II had not been in office this would not have happened. I defy you to actually understand the historical record from this time period and argue that things would have gone the same with a Gore administration.

The affordable care act is another obvious counterexample. The voting record in congress relating to it speaks for itself as far as who supported and opposed it. It materially improved the everyday living situation for millions of people, was very popular, and continues to be very popular. It began to address the cause of medical poverty, which is responsible for about 1/3rd of foreclosures. Republicans spent years attempting to sabotage and destroy it at every opportunity while offering no alternatives for replacement.

At the end of the Obama administration, polling showed that "80 percent of Republicans strongly disapprove of Obamacare. Only about 60 percent strongly disapprove of the Affordable Care Act." Of course these are just different terms for the same exact thing.

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/11/514732211/obamacare-and-affor...
.edu and .gov mean something.
Why isn't the NJ Senior Freeze a sufficient solution for you?