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Will technology save us from climate change?
Yeah! Fuck the future generations. Perhaps we should murder and eat our grandchildren. Sounds pretty tasty.

Oh I misspoke. Let’s eat the kids from the developing nations. Far more civilized.
It might have worked with some kind of haptic feedback device?
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UKCloud had also been developing their Secret tier offering for a number of years and has a little traction from my understanding.
Ongoing thread:

Little Big Adventure series source code released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29012318 - Oct 2021 (6 comments)
This is happening in a lot more religions. Younger Catholics are becoming more traditional. We're even adopting our own garb. At my traditional parish, men come dressed in suits and many women veil (as is traditional when in church). Similar attitudes regarding television and video games. Many even hold to the old catholic beliefs on usury (not very popular amongst most other conservatives). It's a good reminder to be out of this world. Most social life is through the parish. It's pretty nice. Would love to meet the amish in the middle.
What if I - a human - read your code, learn from it, and then use that knowledge to write my own code? Am I stripping your license off and ignoring it?

Clearly it's not as simple as you imagine.
Yes, killing a non-endangered animal for sustenance is more acceptable than killing an endangered animal for a necklace pendant (or any other reason). Any other questions?
Plagiarism can only be spotted by people who wrote the original work?
It's painful because (IMHO) the H index is just a much worse approximation of something that we could actually achieve with PageRank for academic citations. In that case, a bunch of middling papers would be rewarded, but so too would one critical paper that lays a foundation for a field.
It’s nothing more than an enhanced autocomplete that’s 1 part dangerous and two parts hillarious. You’ll have your job for life.
If there's no attribution, the only thing you can do is ask them nicely for it. (Unless you have money to litigate the license violation. But since the chance of you proving damages is non-existent, the best outcome you could hope for is the other project adding an attribution.)

The author also changed the license to GPL which I think a MIT license doesn't allow.

The MIT license allows that. In fact, the MIT license lets the code be used in entirely closed-source, commercial products that sell for millions of dollars. All that's required of users of the code is the attribution.

The license is short and readable. https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity/blob/master/LICENSE
On a laptop, that "look down" means looking at the bottom pixels of the screen.

The looking was never the problem, IMHO, the problem was execution and utility. It was actually distracting when there was adaptive completion results continually flashing. And the rest of the buttons were never great.

If every single dialog box flashed the buttons, that would be a win as it is easier and faster to tap the touchbar than it is to navigate the cursor and then click. But this obvious use case never really materialized.

And if, like most "professional" users, the laptop is operated via an external keyboard, the muscle memory never develops.
> Is it irrational that this makes me a little anxious about job security over the longterm?

In the 50s, we programmed computers with punch cards. Who does now? How many web developers today could tell the difference between `malloc` and `calloc`? Probably not that many.

For a lot of developers, programming today bears very little relation to programming decades ago. Copilot is like any other innovation - it obsoletes some skills, and it introduces new ones.

I doubt copilot will reduce the need for engineers: but it may change the work they do. But that's no different to any other industry.
But we don't commonly run around saying Arabians and Morgans are different because of evolution. Neither do we say that chihuahua's and labradors have evolved into their present form.

In my humble opinion "evolution" refers to speciation, which takes very many generations.
As communist and nazi regimes had shown you just need a good theater to imprison someone. Americans have learned from their enemies.
As you say, it's interactive (with push and shove routing), not manual. Manual routing is what e.g. EAGLE had for most of its life, where you have to draw every single piece of a trace manually and every conflict meant removing (ripping up) the already routed tracks.
> Combined, there are few reasons to take the expense of putting a high-speed ethernet port on a device. Luckily, the introduction of 2.5GbE and 5GbE has decreased the jump a bit and you see those ports on a few consumer devices now.

I think the only thing driving 2.5/5/10GbE at all is that WiFi Access Points need it.
How so? I'd prefer a proper structured library, is that what you mean? If so, the Copilot code actually seems not dodgy - because the author _started_ with `base = ...` , indicating that they were string formatting the params.

Or did you mean something else?
My menory is faded on this one, but IIRC there's an interview with 50 Cent where he talks about recording his first song. The producer wanted something like $50k but 50 Cent asked if instead he wanted royalties instead.

The producer was undecided but eventually said royalties, and ended up getting millions
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Yes, it turns out that the English language is full of incoherent distinctions. Words mean radically different things in different contexts, have definitions that are not really self-consistent, and tons of exceptions that we have to memorize. And yet, we must make sense of it to navigate.

If I were a philosopher, or if I wrote dictionary entries, I might decide to spend the time to come up with a rather clever definition for "artificial". Feel free to come up with a definition yourself, if that's your fancy.
Aren't those both equally meaningless? Maybe this is why I don't participate in social media anymore XD
I'm trying to deploy to Kubernetes. I'm sure manual installation steps on a single VM instance are easy enough, but I guess my standards are a bit higher: HA and reproducibility at a minimum. And maybe the volume(s) don't need to be shared across instances and I'm misreading--it's hard to tell.
Isn't there still the follow-me router? I find that more convenient than auto routing since I generally have an idea of where I want to route, but it's nice having to computer work out the details
Injection-molded plastic?

I kid. I kid. Obviously, injection-molded plastic is bad for the environment, regardless of its history as an "ethical source of ivory."
I imagine that would be worse with more Dual STEM marriages. I made buckets of money and retired early, but it could have been earlier if my spouse also made buckets of money instead of working in a field where the pay didn't justify the agrivation.

In that case, there would have been two senior STEMers leaving the field early.
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Yeah it's like they took the list of everyone's complaints - touchbar, ports, magsafe, battery and fixed them all. Very un-Apple-like.

There's only really minor complaints left, like the unreplaceable RAM and disks, and lack of touchscreen.
On Debian it's the same. I use Debian packages as the means to ship code to test devices and the most time consuming thing when converting X server from autotools to meson was the default configure flags (meson and autotools use different formats).
Landing a winged aircraft is different than landing a rocket.

Starship is designed for mars and its design changes pending mission realities. The fact they're progressing so quick is awesome.

First engines to use Methane are great - and it shows a mission profile that is correct for a trip to mars - since they can use science to generate fuel while on mars.

Uranium wouldn't be a revolution and there is no way it would ever pass certification for leaving earth orbit beyond small decay batteries that have been used for 60+ years.

Just because you don't agree with the cool shit going on, doesn't mean it isn't cool.

And if it could have been done 60 years ago, it would have been done 60 years ago.
After the horrendous recent Google Drive update I decided to give Dropbox a try for the first time in 8+ years, and the software quality has truly taken a decline.

I’m considering switching to iCloud Drive at this point but I’m not a huge fan of how it works either. Any alternatives I should be aware of?
Its the other way around. Checks are an evolution that happened when private bank notes were made illegal.
As the saying goes, "A good programmer copies, but a great programmer steals outright."
>The benefits provided by SoCs outweigh the benefits of user upgradeable RAM for me.

And 90% of laptop users. Utility of computer upgrades for most people’s needs stagnated 5 to even 10 years ago. I think the last big material improvement before M1 for regular consumers was SSD replacing HDD.
On domestic abuse: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-...
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I'd be interested to know what sort of distribution do they follow. Probably some kind of power law? The larger ones of course seem exponentially more difficult to find (the power law might break down due to gravitational clumping of large objects).
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> I'd assumed until recently that early robots and other forms of artificial being were friendly and regarded as a good thing

See also Metropolis and many other works of art and fiction.

But I don't see one speculative theory about one author of one story (from centuries ago) as significant to a serious contemporary issue. It provides no evidence of the risks and the level of risk, nor an argument about them. Dismissing Mary Shelley, even if accepted, tells us nothing about whether AI can safely drive a car, make judicial decisions, decide whether you get a loan, or drop bombs.

The risk is perceived far beyond that story or older sci-fi, but widely anticipated by leading scientists and technologists of our day. What about their evidence and arguments? Nor is it hard to imagine risks with little thought.

> cancelled

Do we really need to inject reactionary politics into a discussion of AI? Does that further the conversation?
Was this MBP era or iBook/PowerBook era? I seem to recall this being the case on the old Titanium Powerbooks in the early 00s.

Remember the glowing light near the laptop latch that would slowly swell to tell you that your laptop was asleep?
> feels like using Visual C++ 6.0 with ATL 3.0, four years after their introduction

Great. Now I'll have nightmares again!
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A lot of the examples people are giving of code Copilot filled in for them sound like what would be called plagiarism, and probably also copyright infringement.

Which I think was fairly predictable.

What wasn't predictable was that someone would ship this Copilot anyway, consequently exposing their company and their users' companies to liability.

Imagine if you hired an intern who was copy&pasting bits of GPL'd code throughout your system. This would not be a good job, it would be something that needed immediate attention from legal counsel and others, and mean reverting every commit the intern from heck made if you couldn't prove convincingly it wasn't tainted. Especially if you're a startup, who needs to assure investor due diligence in good faith that you actually own the IP.
> it's been shown our ancestors comprise mostly of females in a ratio roughly 3:2 to males.

I thought it was 2:1.
> Less and less human stuff cannot be improved with coding

I couldn't disagree more with this perspective. Interpersonal relations are not reducible to technical problems, they require getting buy in from other people.

> And frankly that sounds more valuable to the bottom line than whether Mary is being micromanaged.

What if Mary (or in my example Hayden) leaves the company because they're tired of being micromanaged? Engineers are costly to replace which is why we have people to keep track of the human side of things.
Interesting. I'm casually familiar with Video Amplification (the approach at SIGGRAPH a decade ago IIRC), but have never implemented it myself. A really cool result, using the changes in the phase of the basis vectors over time to infer motion, without having to do dense optic flow.

I'm curious how you would combine acoustic localization in 3 space with motion amplification. I unreservedly agree that they are both "super cool", but don't see how they tie together to make something greater than the sum of their parts.

The only thing I thought of is, if two data channels (video, audio) are registered accurately enough, one could maybe combine the spatially limited frequency information from both channels for higher accuracy?

For example: voxel 10,10,10 is determined (by the audio system) to have a high amount of coherent sound with a fundamental frequency of 2khz. Can that 2khz + 10,10,10 be passed to the video system to do something.... cool? useful? If we know that sound of a certain spectral profile is coming from a specific region, is it useful to amplify (or deaden) video motion with a same frequency?
And? You don't pay capital gains on that. You pay it on the increase relative to the original cost to you (which you payed with already-taxed money). Why shouldn't the increase be taxed same as any other income? Or more, actually, since it's not earned by productive labor?
There are so many half truths in your arguments it would take far too long to refute them all. It’s hard to believe you’re not acting in bad faith, either that or completely indulging your confirmation biases.
How does this compare with commercial ultrasonic flaw detection systems for physical objects?
Is this actually evolution?

I ask because it’s not a change in the genetic structure of elephants. It’s an existing trait becoming more wide spread.
I am some non-zero amount interested that a Facebook friend of mine liked or commented on some random post. I’m not as interested as something that they posted originally, but clearly non-zero interested in many of those.
You're not meant to look at your keyboard. It's simply not efficient.
Those were the days. I remember replacing the battery on my iBook G4 when it died. :)
Depends on the patient and the cause. Some require them 24/7.

In the case of polio, the nerves controlling the diaphragm are sometimes affected. This can be partial, with a reduced but present breathing, or completely absent.

In either case, but especially when only partial, people can often adapt when conscious and upright. Other muscles may not be affected, and they can use non-diaphragm muscles to expand/contract the rib cage. In mild cases this is just an assist and provides the extra ventilation for strenuous activity. In serious cases it's required to keep them conscious.

While such adaption becomes an unconscious reflex, it's still largely suppressed when asleep.

There are some parallels to how people with obstructive sleep apnea adapt. They may be able to breathe (e.g. through their mouth) during the day but at night, the instinctive breathing process isn't working quite right.

The result is usually some kind of sleep apnea. Waking up feeling suffocated and having to will yourself to breathe. In the extreme, if that reflex doesn't kick in either, it could cause a hypoxic event, that inhibits breathing even more, and that's potentially fatal.
Yes, that's true. But what I intended to convey was that it's very hard in the sense that we have only described a few dozen classes of transcendentals. So the actual limiting factor has to be something other than this counting argument. The hard part is finding descriptions of transcendentals within the space of describable numbers.
I should probably just stop here and not expect to grok the geopolitics of this universe over a conversation like this but...

* Why is there so much conflict if there's an empire?

* Why doesn't one faction simply control the planet?

* These are just regular nukes right? Like on the scale of the atomic weapons we have now? I guess on the scale of intergalactic conflict those don't sound very important to me? Very different from the scale of a nuke on an OPEC state city.
"Dayton Hamvention"

Ah, now you're making me nostalgic for those childhood trips to the now demolished Hara Arena with my dad.
Sure, and two of them are identical from every practical and theoretical perspective.
You still use SD cards. But you access them through WiFI and your camera.
Surely you would agree that brains are a product of the physical world, and thus are subject to mathematical laws (what we see as repeatable chemical and electrical deterministic actions).

If you believe this capacity to imagine before acting is an emergent property of the brain, then even the imagined options are subject to the same mathematical laws. If you imagine a few different outcomes, then you were always going to imagine those outcomes and you were already going to pick the physical action. In this scenario "Free Will" is a non sequitur, things just unfold the way they were always going to unfold - the end is contained within the beginning (if there is such a thing as beginning or end anyway!)

If you believe that the capacity to imagine before acting derives from something outside of the physical world, IE maybe part of it happens in the brain but another happens out of it. Perhaps it's a soul - Gurdjieff said that we're born without souls and spirituality is about developing a soul, and without one we are machines - literally used that word. There are tons of examples of people trying to explain this problem, that one just came to mind. The point is that you can't explain free will in a consistent system without implicitly introducing a foreign element that exists outside that system. If God created us, then who created God?

I have yet to see a logical explanation that really addresses the problem of consciousness. Your description, while it is very interesting, I feel just squeezes the problem into an abstract realm that exists outside the system. But I don't believe in a split between physical world and the mental abstract world, they both must arise from the same place. And if anything indicates that reality is far far weirder than we can know, it's that both the physical and mental/abstract world exist, emerging from the same reality.

FWIW I believe that there are some rules underpinning the world, however I suspect the physical laws that we've been able to piece together are emergent properties of something more primal, in other words there are probably systems determining systems - we see the world since the big bang but it's just a snapshot, the "systems" that we see as "natural laws" are most likely shifting slowly as well - slowly as in far slower than we can ever imagine, googleplexes of years. The underlying systems may not even be systems or rules in the logical sense, they could be, to borrow Godel, far beyond our ability to describe, or contain things that are impossible to prove. Can we even describe a system from within a system?

Because I believe that, I don't believe in free will or even non-free will - things just unfold the way they always would have.

EDIT: I also find it deeply weird that anything exists at all. Why isn't there just nothing? It's a seriously spooky thought if you think it through.
Would that it were so simple! For cronjobs, maybe it often is, but DST transitions are a mess to deal with in things like calendaring UIs and other places where you have to convert point-in-time values to the format consumed by normal people, and where your users can have different but legitimate expectations about how those transitions should be handled.

At one company I remember helping build a scheduling UI for a linear TV broadcast channel, where you plan out the broadcast day in 24h blocks. Worked great except twice a year when, due to DST, you have either a 23h day or a 25h day, and half a dozen ways various customers expected that to be handled. The de facto solution was to have happy customers 363 days a year. :-/

Hey, but thank goodness for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act or it would have been even worse!
Almost no vaccines work that way. They’re not magic shields.

In reality protection is slightly variable depending on a host of factors including age & immune response, but on a _population_ level they work to bring the disease under control.

The polio vaccine ended that disease’s existence in most of the world, but it’s not perfect. If you’re vaccinated with the regular schedule and go to a polio-endemic area you may still get it. That’s why people who may be exposed to it in places where it’s endemic or in labs need additional booster shots according to CDC guidelines.
copilot's won't suggest anything worth calling plagiarism, just mundane plumbing and maybe textbook algorithm implementations. have you seen it generate anything more glorified than StackOverflow-esque code snippets?
"Rich" means high concentration of lithium in ore. This deposit does seem to be top 1 in that measure, 4.68%.

For comparison, Greenbushes, THE lithium mine in West Australia, is 1.60%. Note that Greenbushes is actually famous for its high concentration. More typical is Mt Cattlin at 0.50%. This deposit is 3x richer than Greenbushes and 9x richer than Mt Cattlin, which is in fact astonishing as the article says.
> It does that by abusing a term that isn't directly applicabl

It is directly applicable, and not at all a used; the broader functional (Westphalian sovereign) and social (the functional definition + two-way close mapping to a nationality) definitions of “nation-state” are both technical definitions widely used (and distinguished by context) in the field from which the term originates. (Just like “consistency” has different meanings in a CAP context vs. an ACID one, except with less ambiguity for “nation-state”, because compared to the functional and social definitions of “nation-state”, the CAP and ACID definitions of “consistency” are far more likely to both be plausibly relevant in the same context.)

The common use in cybersecurity is exactly the functional definition, not an abuse of terminology.
That's a good one. Brought a smile on my face.

From "What We Do In The Shadows":
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For me APIs are actually one of the places it performs the worst. Copilot is like having an inexperienced yet annoyingly optimistic pair programmer. The code it generates appears conceivable in some hypothetical universe. No guarantee it's this one though.

Remember it doesn't actually know an API or how it should be used: it's putting things together to look like typical code. For me that has meant difficult to spot bugs like linking up incorrect variables from the rest of my code.

I wish it could integrate the first SO answer to a generated question, because I always end up there anyway having to fix things.
We don't need to imagine, that was the scenario being sold for CORBA/DCOM, then it was sold for SOAP/XML-RPC webservers,...

We even got stuff like Bizztalk and BPEL to orchestrate API calls with graphical workflows.

The circle of IT fashion.
You can argue all you want. But unless you have enough money to have enough politicians do your bidding, it's just words.
Yes, this is evolution, and that's generally how evolution works. There is some diversity in a population, and natural selection promotes some traits over others.