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I'm also going down that rabbit hole and I think the experience is mostly about getting out of a single mainstream cultural narrative and to increase cognitive diversity. This can be achieved by either watching movies from multiple different cultures or from completely different era. I've opted for both, and I've started writing reviews on my gopher[1] about the (mostly B&W and silent) movies I've been watching. I can clearly say, some of these are so impressive that they make contemporary movies (particularly Hollywood) look like slapstick jokes with a single plot.

[1] gopher://g.nixers.net/0/~vnm/classic_movies
Also available on proxies such as: https://proxy.vulpes.one/gopher/g.nixers.net/0/~vnm/classic_...
There's nothing to "sell", we don't have to "buy in" or pay for it. And those who do, don't have a choice.

Like the US they use taxpayer money to advance agenda of various interest (politicians, crony capitalists, state sector).

It's just another form of plunder, albeit better than bio weapons research.
>On the flip side, nobody is really satisfied with the idea that it takes a trauma surgeon to save you. You're right that it takes skills, but not skills that a paramedic, a nurse or many other people have.

Although it takes a surgeon to save someone from a serious wound, I am very skeptical of the suggestion (perhaps unintentionally implied?) that an EMT or first responder can't do anything to improve outcomes except transport the patient fast. There is a whole list of things they train combat medics to do and none of them involve an operating theater.
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I thought this [0] explanation from a post a few days ago was pretty interesting. The idea being that the US gov is likely able to create a kind of localized plasma phenomenon with some interesting properties (i.e., “ would be circular, as seen from below, and oval, as seen from the side”.) Potentially useful for “radar spoofing.”[0]

All it requires is a powerful particle accelerator and a willingness to “[dump] a high energy proton beam into the atmosphere [creating] a glowing ball of plasma.”[1]

These balls of plasma could be coaxed to behave in very unusual ways, and would likely have a oval or round shape depending on a viewer’s perspective.

Lots of interesting and tangentially related bits on Bob Lazar/Area 51 (Bob has to stick to his story to stay out of jail, and Area 51/Groom lake is heavily associated with radar evading technologies like stealth, SR-71/OxCart, so experimenting with plasma balls by shooting a particle accelerator high into the atmo seems way more of a practical explanation than aliens or super exotic tech)

His idea that the ginormous black triangles that people have reported are also radar experiments is pretty compelling as well when compared to the alien explanation.

[0] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...

[1] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
I'd recommend starting with some of his collections of short stories, like 'The Simple Art of Murder' - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140930 or 'Trouble is My Business' - https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150520
> Surely "1 AU" is the preferred form for this one.

Everybody knows it’s 4.848×10^12 attoprsecs.
The example is called listcopy, so assuming it does that, I don't think there are many modern languages where you could remove a line and have other (experienced) programmers not pick up on that. Unless that line had nothing to do with the actual task, but that's not the case here.

Agreed it is bad code though. A good C example and then synthesised code of the same task would have been better imho.
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> There's cool editing and shooting on reddit filmmaking subs not to mention the super competitive music video market for cinematographers and editors

There's cool writing on reddit writing subs as well. Nice snippets do not a great whole movie make, in any part of the art form.
There is an old US crime show, which nobody in the US liked, but was a hit in Germany - the people tasked with translating and dubbing realized how bad the original was and decided to rewrite it into a comedy.

I can't remember the name of the show, but I read about it in a reputable newspaper, so I hope I'm not spreading an urban legend.
If you believe Glassdoor, it's "unlimited vacation time". Which makes things like this all the more important.
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omg TIL `k explain foo` and `k explain foo.spec` is a thing. thank you for this!!!
There is a section on the methods used, along with naming the dataset, the SIPP.

There is a link to the SIPP in the endnotes of the page. The SIPP is from the Census Bureau.
As someone who has to write C for their day job, I am a little bit offended by the introduction of this article, but I guess that's the point.

The code presented is trash and doesn't follow best practices - using the type system, descriptive variable names, etc. Void pointers for everything, are you serious? Of course it's hard to understand. Revealing that it's the generated code doesn't make me any more comfortable with it.

Yes, I get that you shouldn't care what the generated code looks like if you trust your input, but I don't find the predicate any easier to understand. How do I know that's correct? What if I need to debug this generated output?
Almost anything can be learnt, including writing well. Unfortunately, today’s incentive for anything is money, and Hollywood is no exception. And so we've fed a diet of trite, banal, and contrived writing because it fits the now-established recipe for box office returns.
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pretty sure it was a joke
Got it. Yeah it might be worthwhile to see what you can push without having to worry about the same constraints, though keeping an open channel so that they can find their way into the tracing library would certainly be helpful.

I'm not a tracing contributor myself, just a consumer, for what it's worth.
You're operating on the assumption that the elite make their money passively.

Putting money in a bank isn't even enough to keep up with inflation at the moment, the same is true for Proof of Stake coins, too.
> If someone was to ask me how far is was from sun to earth, and I answered 1AU, and they asked what an AU was?

You'd probably do the same thing that you would do if they asked what a km was: keep changing the units until you get one that they recognise, and then now they can understand the original unit you used.

(Although in this specific case given that they're asking about the definition of the unit you'd probably provide that context without needing further prompting in the first place, similar to if they asked about the circumference of the earth and you gave an answer in metres)
As he says in the linked tweet: the major value the GPL contributed is the code being open-sourced in the first place, since his co-copyright-holders would never have agreed to license it BSD. The alternative to the GPL, in this case, was "(c) All Rights Reserved", which is still how most other old games are licensed.
But the same can happen with BSD licensed code, right? That license also has certain requirements that need to remain fulfilled.

I don’t see how the GPL is special in the discussion around Copilot.
Can’t it be rereleased with a BSD license now if the copyright holder agree?
Isn't it useful for the tool to warn about something that is often incorrect but sometimes intentional? The parent's example of implicit constructors is a good one, and a sibling comment mentioned fallthrough as another example. None of your suggestions help with that:

- It's not a bug in the tool (because the warning is often useful).

- A mention in a commit message doesn't help when you run the tool in future and get false alarms (oh I'll just read all the historic commit messages to see if any say these should be ignored).

- If you find such a comment at peer review then that doesn't give you anything actionable to do if the comment is being used correctly in one of these casees.

The solution in these cases is not "a little discipline" but simply to use the disabling comment and accept that this is reasonable.
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As a product creator I can say the same about sales. How I wish someone had told me that when it comes to SaaS the 80-20 is 80% focus on sale (traffic, customer feedback, seo, conversions, etc) and 20 percent is actually technical.

And it's not just about money, even OSS projects need a lot of push and support when the "fun" part is done.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

A political will is definitely lacking. One thing we cannot say, when the last forest has been cut down or was burned down during the soon to be longer summer months, when the food chains start collapsing due to the death of trillions of insects, is that we did not know.

We knew as far back as the 80s that this was going to happen but too often the human species likes to bury its head in the sand until its too late.

There is no reason to think that this will change anytime soon.

We, in tech like to think about technological solutions to a problem. In this case the tech is here. Its affordable, but we are not embracing it as we should.

Instead of committing to net zero in 2050, we should do the transition in less than a decade and then start capturing CO2 from the atmosphere after that. Yet here we are debating if we should or not start trading carbon credits between ourselves, as if there is nothing better to do.
Apple specifically avoids code licensed under GPL 3, which wasn't even released at the time Carmack's code was licensed.

The concern there seems to be the anti-"tivoization" provisions, which could force Apple to allow people to replace GPLv3'd code.
Garbage in means you have too much noise over signal coming in. You might be able to call current society garbage if you wish, but from an ML perspective it’s not accurate to say arbitrary input is garbage if it indeed is high quality data that reflects society as it is, or if you only have data on a certain set of classes but what you have is noiseless.
The code snippet is incorrect. I do not see a check on malloc returning null. In general that would be okay, but in an embedded environment with limited memory, that would be a serious problem.

Also, using recursion is bad, because copying a long list will lead to a stack overflow.
To what extent does this jargon change over time?
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I'd assume the settlement prevents any further litigation. They are probably more concerned about getting the ship operating as soon as possible, as opposed to spending the next few years in court, all while the ship is impounded.
BSD is about being kind to everyone, even unkind people.

GPL is about being kind to everyone, as long as they are as kind as you. When sharing something valuable under a GPL license, you’re incentivizing others to be kind like you.

Obviously, if you’re a millionaire like Carmack, you don’t need others’ kindness to get by, so from his point of view a BSD license is better, as his goal is simply to disseminate his code as widely as possible.
His criticisms of contemporary American cinema are apt. But on an individual level, he just needs to watch more old movies and more foreign cinema. In my experience, many people can’t name more than one or two movies from Eastern Europe, USSR/Russia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Mexico, etc. Especially older movies from these places, which developed almost independently from Hollywood. Something like Solaris (Tarkovsky version) doesn’t quite have an equivalent Western sci-fi analogue.

A couple sites I recommend are EasternEuropeanMovies.com and CriterionChannel.com. Tons of excellent old films.
The rate of consumption is way greater than rate at which new/creative/interesting content can be created.

With improvement in tech (e.g internet speeds) and new accessibility nodes (like streaming services) the rate of consumption has increased even more.

After few years the same thing will happen to TV-series as well (e.g. [1])

[1] Game Of Thrones explored and doubled down on grey characters. Now, a lot of others will do it and it will become a trope.
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> Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see.

Here is the main problem. After having seen most of the classics, the best you can do is just take a break and wait for the next big release that will make your eyes sparkle. Drowning your soul into the endless pit that is Amazon Prime Video or Netflix is a fantastic way to waste time and lose faith in the industry.

The article also doesn't speak much about direction and acting. I appreciate some actors and directors and would see movies for them, and even if it doesn't blow my mind it will often be like seeing an old friend telling me a new story in a way that I enjoy.

Of course, being amazed watching movies like Werk ohne Autor or Ex Machina happens once a year at best now, but people (not algorithms) on the Internet can help anyone spotting such gems easily without wasting too much time on average content.
Not a joke, the AU is a pretty common unit of measurement when talking about distances too large for metres and too small for light-years, especially since it's based on one of the most widely understood astronomical distances. Of course using it to describe the distance it's derived from is more than a little tautological, but that wasn't too important in the context of discussing magnitude prefixes.

It's roughly the same thing as describing a distant potentially-habitable planet as being "1.5 times the size of Earth" instead of giving its radius in metres. It's just that AUs wrap that "n times the distance between the sun and the earth" into a nice standardised unit.
It's worse than this: Even permissive licenses like MIT require you credit the original author. Copilot regurgitates code without recognizing the original author at all, violating pretty much any and all licenses.
Well, it's quite nice
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That "transfer" bash function - why does it use "tee /dev/null"?
1. Someone expressed their concern that fragments of GPL code would end up in projects with non-GPL licenses and called it open source laundering. They were also concerned about the interpretation of derivative work. Could copilot's output be considered a derivative work?

https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410037309848752128?lang=en

2. Someone posted how copilot reproduced the famous fast inverse square root function verbatim, including comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
Every tool is welcomed for the scenarios where there is no workaround as to keep writing C code, but for everything else, the best is not to write it to start with.

In any case very interesting paper, however I feel such kind of tooling can only be enforced in scenarios where code certification is already taking place, e.g. MISRA and AUTOSAR.
> Over the past decade, we’ve become touchy about what’s okay to say or laugh at. Borat could not be made today

Lindsay Ellis had a pretty good refute to when people say this about Mel Brooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE
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I remember reading once about Bunuel having a small room with couch and a giant Miro painting in his apartment. Bunuel would take a drink and sit on that couch and look at that Miro for a couple hours, his mind doing the work. It is common to read in XIXth century literature (Dostoevsky comes to mind) how even characters portrayed as somewhat shallow would spend an hour or two in front of some famous (as in 'in vogue') Old Master's painting, constructing the internal dialogue with the creator.

The piece in this text about passive consumption of media being bad for the... soul(?) reads like something from a person who failed to perform the mental work necessary to perceive "passive consumption" as something active, inspiring and enriching.

After seeing Superbad or Deadpool (that in the context of cinema possess the cultural significance of screensavers) used as a reference with a mention of Eyes Wide Shut as a peak viewership effort, it is really upsetting to see piece this get traction on Hackernews.

Coming across this text after a randomly encountered masterpiece that is "Riders of Justice" is hilarious and a bit sad.
When I was running the internal k8s clusters at a previous workplace, I simply got into the habit of compulsively running `kubectl config current-context` to check which one of the 50+ clusters I was currently connected to (designated test clusters for *playing with cluster infra", designated clusters for "devs playing around", designated prod clusters, with segregation between "batch-like" and "interactive" workloads, as we needed to treat the nodes differently in those, designated "run the CI/CD pipelines" clusters, as they needed different RBAC, ... and then duplicate between multiple data centres).
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Similarly, there is a flatworm parasite that takes over a snail's mind, turns its eyes into colourful pulsating beacons to attract predator birds to eat it, parasitizes the bird, and then leaves its eggs in the bird poop for more snails to eat later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum

National Geographic video (warning, kinda gross): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_LIz7kTok
So valuing that his co-holders didn't want to opensource is good for the open source community? That seems backwards.
But it’s not. Most of the insured damages in cyber insurance are not for paying the ransom, but reputation also damage, liability, etc.

The ransom is nothing.
I have seen code written like that by humans, namely offshored projects.
I’ve been using Mm too, but only when I have a reasonable expectation that it will be understood. IOW, rarely.

But also, I still have the Earth–Moon distance internalized as 385000 km, not 385 Mm, since that is what I learned as a kid.

But stating the Sun–Earth distance as 1 AU is just a tautology, restating the definition, and hence void of information. I suspect you’re jesting. ;-)
It's possible to get everything wrong and still keep making movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum
What about the MDX language, is it still relevant today ? What are you using as OLAP tools ?
GPL lets you release source code and enforce that no one can modify it without releasing their modifications. A lot of people like that "restriction" because it maximizes the amount of source people have access to.
Anyone who makes use of patented technology that has not been licensed by someone upstream can, indeed be sued, at least in principle. Consider the case of Innovatio, who tried to go after businesses who were providing WiFi for their customers by using routers that contained chips that contained potentially infringing circuitry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/infamous-wi-fi-patent-... . The reason we don’t see more suits of end customers is that it’s not economically feasible - nobody would sue millions of consumers to collect $.10 each, when they can sue the upstream manufacturer just once and collect hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in royalties.
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And in any case I think at the point where the AI (yes I considered scare quotes but decided not to) copies the code verbatim including swear words it is kind of obvious what happens:

The AI part isn't about independent creation but about figuring out what to copy.
I don't think that is really the point that was being made. As you say the practical chances of google storing this data for x years, then committing corporate suicide by decrypting it is are miniscule (and presumably apple agrees).

The point is that there are layers of security, and by moving the data outside of their physical control apple has given up one of those layers of security.
My use of Audacity has not changed in 15 years, and yet I keep updating it, and it keeps breaking on me! It’s like I have a compulsion to get the latest (though I’m on Arch and the latest is over a year old, and I’m fine with that).
> Another argument you could advance is that TV and Film have generally been moving away from comedy as a genre

I noticed this for movies and it makes me sad. I asked people around me what's the latest funny, full-on comedy they've seen, and I think the newest one would be "Tropic Thunder" which is 13 years old.

There are still a couple around, but I can't think of an equivalent of "Airplane!" or "Blazing Saddles" for the current generation. The closest one is probably half of "Zoolander", and even that one is almost old enough to drink.
> GPL is certainly better than a license prohibiting commercial use.

The GPL prohibits some commercial use.

The BSD license does not.
I’ve often wondered this. I see them around a lot, and I’m like “someone doesn’t know their Latin.”
i don’t see that. i see carmac reminiscing as, wouldn’t it have been nice if this had happened rather than that, while clearly acknowledging that his business partners would not have gone along with ‘that’. the implication I draw, having no more info than these tweets, is that, after some discussion, JC and Id compromised on using the GPL to license the DOOM source, versus not releasing the DOOM source. The GPL allowed wide general availability of the DOOM source, which Carmac wanted, while being acceptable to Id’s business needs as Id saw them at that time.
In the 2000s-ish I started to think music was in decline and could never again rival the music of the late 20th century.

But then I thought maybe I was just getting older, and maybe the kids all loved new 2000s music.

But then after 2010-ish, it was like music came back, and is now great again, and it turns out I wasn’t just getting older - music really did go through a creative wasteland in the 2000s.

Naturally, these are very broad strokes, and there are exceptions.
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I would think Apple is smart enough to mix storage blobs, so one blob is not one user. Plus all requests come from Apple datacenters, not user devices.
Petagrams (Pg) is commonly used in climate science. I always wondered why they don’t write it as Gt instead.

But gigalitre? Surely, calling them cubic kilometres (edit: should be hm³, see followup comments) would be preferable?
Doesn't it make things like this all the more meaningless?
We know that "unlimited vacation time" can, given a competitive company culture mean "essentially no vacation time".
First, isn't this then the same with wellbeing days(sure, it's the whole company that's supposed to be off, but who knows how it will actually work in practice).
Second, wouldn't the first step be to give all employees 30 days of annual vacation and enforce that they actually take them? (This is what many organizations do in Europe...)