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Yeah, the physical sensation of playing piano/keyboards is energizing. I guess that's same (or sometimes even more) for other musical instruments. In a sense, it's like physical excursive.

It'd be great if programming gives us similar sensation, but it's purely intellectual, at least to me. I understand it's the point, but still.
>Do you also condone citizens witnessing other crimes and doing nothing or is your opinion limited to dangerous driving only?

Not the person you're replying to but yes, for all civil infractions and most criminal ones for which there is no readily identifiable victim.
"We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells."
“Thousands of dollars and would have taken a few minutes” 1.) The hundreds of other people buying laptops that day are also spending thousands of dollars.
2.) It doesn’t take “a few minutes” when there are 15 employees to help hundreds of people.

Order online or make an appointment like everyone else. What makes your $1500 more important than the hundreds of other people patiently waiting to spend $1500?
> It is compositing as final step.

I might be misinterpeting your use of "compositing" here (and my own technical knowledge is fairly shallow) but I don't think there's any compositing of elements generally in AI image generation. (unless Dall-E 2 changes this. I haven't read the paper yet)
Fair point, though at the same time I don’t see how this app would help any more or less.
Have you joined any local community Facebook groups? Neighbours (vigilantes) posting about neighbours speeding/illegally parking their cars/noise issues or other mundane HOA violations doesn't deter anyone from these actions, if anything it creates a ton of fighting and drives communities apart.
I think the question we need to ask ourselves is if they would exist without VC in the first place. A bunch of bootstrapped startups able to eek out a living through a relatively small number of subscriptions sounds wonderful, but is it realistic?
I use Sublime Text but same concept.
> Only thing I'm missing from Emacs is the ability to completely freeze all packages and configs.

Weird - Emacs by default does not auto-update packages. I do it manually as needed. Are you using Vanilla Emacs or something else?
From what I heard China clearly calls it a war on their public TV, indicates that it's perpetrated by Russia and even shows graphic imagery of war crimes Russia commits.

Despite what USA is telling on every occasion about China to get it somehow involved in this conflict, China appears like they have no horse in this game and calls a spade a spade better than Vatican does without trumping up the narrative to global conflict level. Besides I think China is way more preoccupied with internal matters like covid outbreaks to be able to really nake any strong effort to profit from this conflict.

India is way more pro-russian at the moment, given that the west was very unwelcoming to Indian ambitions and it was Russia who had their back.
Yeah I agree it can be overkill for many companies...k8s is quite a beast.
Yes WoW is exactly the primary example of "arcadeization" as I call it and why companies should not listen to their vocal playerbase sometimes.

WoW went from a game where player interaction was the norm (both negative and positive), going to a dungeon was a massive adventure just for getting there, you would have meaningful interactions with other players, coordinating to get to a place, giving directions, traversing what felt a living world with living players. Also the opposite was true, you would dislike some people for how they acted or played or ganked, but all of that had human interaction at heart.

But then going to dungeons became a chore for acquiring tokens, and this all stopped being fun, and we got automatic queues and people barely speak to each other anymore, and if they do, it's for insulting a player for a bad pull or for not waiting the healer.

It's sad but I believe that modern online gaming exchanged meaningful and durable human interactions for ease of use and quick consumption.

I remember talking to thousands of people and knowing pretty much everyone in a hundred of Counter Strike clans in Italy 20 years ago.

This image [1] will be 20 years old in few months, this is the SMAU Italian Lan Party 2002. 1200 PC gamers brought their own computers, setup up a giant lan, to meet and interact and fight each other and form friendships in the same place! 1200! 20 years ago!

Today it's a miracle if you can get few dozens people to play in the same place, there's barely any human interaction from gamers, neither in person nor online.

It's sad, maybe I'm just old and it's nostalgia, but I liked it more as it was before.

[1] https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRm_T4I...
Every time i read Chomsky, i'm thinking: Why is he so much more knowledgeable and insightful than the average american? This guy gets it.
100%

Do I have to post the quote?

"your rights end when they infringe on the rights of others"
You're already being recorded by a dozen surveillance doorbells and cheap outdoor cameras when you walk outside your house, in a normal middle-class neighborhood, these days :-/

For whatever reason, a bunch of other tech-crap has caught on only unevenly, but those seem to be fairly common everywhere.
The general understanding of distinct things is not a fundamental truth, it's a language tool to describe what we experience.

Things themselves do not exist outside of conceptual thinking. Unless we can get down to the true atomic source of everything, then maybe you've found the distinct "thing", but you cannot experience that, only describe it.

For example, my "body" is made up of the ultimate fundamental atomic unit just like everything around it. There is no line of delineation, it's just a sea of atomic units. My body only exists as a distinct "thing" because that's how we interpret this sea of units with our limited senses.

I see it a little like pixels on a display. The array of pixels all display light, they are all the same, but as we zoom out we begin to interpret the many pixels forming distinct objects on the screen. This does not change the fundamental reality that the pixels are not that thing, and that thing does not exist outside of our interpretation.

And all of this is assuming reality is fundamentally atomic, which has yet to be proven.
Well for one thing, that other totalitarian government doesn't have nukes to threaten you if you intervene with them.
Literally everyone on this website is in denial. They all approach it by asking which fields will be safe. No field is safe. “But it’s not going to happen for a long time.” Climate deniers say the same thing and you think they should be wearing the dunce hat? The average person complains bitterly about climate deniers who say that it’s “my grandkids problem lol” but when I corner the average person into admitting AI is a problem the universal response is that it’s a long way off. And that’s not even true! The drooling idiots are willing to tear down billionaires and governments and any institution whatsoever in order to protect economic equality and a high standard of living — they would destroy entire industries like a rampaging stampede of belligerent buffalos if it meant reducing carbon emissions a little but when it comes to the biggest threat to human well-being in history, there they are in the corner hitting themselves on their helmeted head with an inflatable hammer. Fucking. Brilliant.
Previous discussion (Jan 2021 - 235 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627081
Sorry to see this. In 2004, I worked for a major national non-profit in the US. We built our own internal web portal that is essentially what Friday is. Since then, I've seen a lot more interest in this space. Microsoft SharePoint is one of the main ones but, I think, only because it's from Microsoft and integrates well with Windows networks. From a product standpoint, SharePoint is just not very good.

Someone is going to come in and own this space one day for sure. The need is always there.
Sorry it's too late :(

Since I wanted them printed using real screen printing, we only had one shot to put in an order that was big enough.

But tell you what, give me a contact email and I'll send you a spare that I have (if "large" works)
Key quote from Jay Sullivan, VP of Product:

> “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation,” he said. “Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”

If they can add an edit button while achieving that objective, then it should be fine.
Does anyone here think that metaprogramming is actually magic, as in something which defies the laws of nature? If there is no confusion, there is no problem.
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Ahh that makes sense, thank you.
Correct, they were, which reinforces the point.
I believe he's implying that your embryo would not have passed the fitness tests, and so would have been destroyed. So you wouldn't exist.

Your parents might have conceived again, and had another child who did pass, to whom they gave the same name. But that child wouldn't be you.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1511052312718028805.html
I believe the ideal use case for this app is on residential streets where the chances of impact with a pedestrian or child playing are sufficiently high to warrant a low speed limit? Anyone who chooses to exceed this limit in such an area IS driving dangerously.

I am guessing your defence of speeding relates to less populated areas where the chances of hitting a pedestrian are pretty much zero?
Akin to "security theatre", this is "tech startup theatre".
Since I only have a hammer (emacs), everything is a nail (text file).
Every project has a root folder with a file "diary.txt". Many of those files are multi-megabyte long.

Only other tool is Google Calendar - for things that are time-sensitive
More open source contributions are always good, but they don't accomplish much in the case of SaaS offerings. Ultimately someone has to pay to run the servers.
Yup getting a therapist is the best thing you can do. Understanding the trauma of your childhood is the most impactful thing you can do in your life.
Thank you for your feedback.
What a pity that you gave up. If you want you can continue watching the rest of the site. The videos in my opinion are very beautiful and descriptive. My partner did them all.
You can find them all on the youtube channel.
We can't know that hadn't Poland joined NATO Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine but we can definitively know that Poland joining NATO is certainly the cause of this war?

You have very interesting priors, I must say.
If I understand your initial argument as implicitly revised here, it's basically "whatever consciousness is, it doesn't happen at the scale of some small number of bits". But some fungi are among the largest organisms on the planet. If this kind of signaling is going on within them, imagine the throughput, even if the individual signaling rates are low.
> You need to be explicit if you want to argue in good faith here.

They absolutely do not. The military aggression of nato countries against weaker ones is well documented. They have killed, organized coups, waged war, and assassinated elected leaders for their own economic and political goals.

If you're going to argue that every single one of these was merely a country that happened to be part of nato, acting independently, then do it. It's not anyone's responsibility to lob you a specific case that you can try to shoot down on its specific details, and refusing to (proactively!?) do so does not indicate a bad faith argument come on.
A random person standing on the side of the road filming cars driving by doesn't stop speeding, it just distracts an already speeding driver. It potentially makes the situation worse.
As far as I know, autism has some preference in certain types of it-work.

I think data and testing is one of those.

Eg. Here https://auticon.co.uk/now-hiring/
If this paper presents this neural net fairly, it pretty much destroys the market of illustrators. Most of the time when an illustration needed, it's described like "an astronaut on a horse in the style xyz".
>If implemented and executed properly, you could put a big dent in online disinformation / troll farms / bot accounts and streamline all sorts of things.

No it won't. It will only ensure that certain people and groups can be the absolute final say in what information people can say and hear. Only an extremely generous and unhistorical interpretation is that this will "reduce disinformation." It will only consolidate who is allowed to have the loudest disinformation.

This is disastrous for so many reasons. For example, suppose a whistleblower has damning evidence of human rights abuses. The powers involved decide to flip a switch and digitally quarantine all individuals who could possibly be whistleblowers, and everyone N-hops away from those people, so the story can't get out. The public never learns of it, and the abuses continue. This is not a novel idea, but now we've just made it push-button and absolute.

How do you propose whistleblowers exist in the system you are advocating for?
https://www.kaleidosync.com this is the actual product. Requires a spotify login though.
This is factually incorrect. The winter issue in Texas was almost exclusively lack of winterization of thermal plants as well as a market setup that was unable to predict and react to the weather. Wind generated more electricity during the event than what was committed in the market, and as such had no negative influence.
I'm not excusing Russian atrocities. We're looking at what enabled this trajectory. Lack of introspection leads to more stupid actions. If France and Britain hadn't demanded the extraction of wealth from WWI losers, lots of things would have fallen differently in history. That does not in any way excuse any of the action taken by any of the actors who made their own choices.

But we have to be careful of what stages we are setting up. another example is the "Mujahudeen". Yes, convenient thorn in the Soviets' ambitions but they would come back to haunt us. It's still their fault for their acts of terror, but we also gave them "life" by setting up the stage for them.
> No, delta-speed kills and seriously injures people.

Both are dangerous. I've heard the delta-speed argument a lot before and its proponents do a good job explaining why it's bad, but the fact is that absolute speed does matter a lot too. Plus, delta-speed practically equals speed when a vehicle collides with a relatively stationary object like a pedestrian or a cyclist.
It is interesting that in a 9-validator design, 4 of them were really one with 4 votes. With a 5 of 9 min, that makes this a 2 of 5 design really.
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I work embedded so pretty much everything falls into R&D in the field. Like obviously stay away from maintenance projects but most new development is a science project in my experience.
Speeding isn't the cause, reckless driving is. Just because someone was speeding at the time of the accident doesn't mean it was the cause. Reckless out of control driving is the cause, speeding is the symptom.
> Not how it works, actually. The system changed in 2013 and now whoever is first to file gets the patent, even if someone else can demonstrate prior art.

This is not true, and it's a really damaging misrepresentation.

First to file deals with interference between parallel applications, it doesn't change prior art based on publication.

If two parties show up claiming patents on the same thing based on unpublished work, under the prior rules the party that was willing to fabricate the earliest date of invention won, under current rules the first to file wins.

The misinformation you're spreading is particularly pernicious because the change increased the incentives for publishing your work early and often (to establish prior art ASAP)-- but the misinterpretation implies you should avoid publishing at all costs (to avoid a third party dishonestly patenting your publications).
Yes, in the newer spec, but it does only leave you with 10Gbps for everything else on your dock.
There's a compromise to be made, and it does happen on the rare occasions when management can pull their head out of their asses long enough to realize that optimizing for throughput is a bad case of Goodhart's Law.

Sometimes you let engineers do things that don't necessarily need to be done because it makes them happy.

Not everything that might make them happy, not the biggest most ridiculous thing they say will make them happy (but objectively don't actually know until they try), but a few things, and consistently.

What I see happen often enough is that someone who finally who has no fucks left to give takes big gambles to get permission to work on something, and what makes it resume fodder isn't that it does in fact look good on the resume, but that they have already begun to check out before the project even started.

With the exception of some progressives, almost everyone who talks about retention or revolving doors only start talking about it after the proverbial barn doors are open and all the best animals have already left. Nothing you do at this point will get back the people you couldn't afford to lose and already did. You're really fighting the last war at this point.
My point is to poke fun at the implication that any improvements made are solely the result of one investor who now has their (ridiculously expensive) board seat.
Back then I could run a music visualizer offline. I have no idea why this website requires me to log in to Spotify.
>>>I can't think of an innocent reason for Russia to be afraid of Nato,

Because in 2007 the US unilaterally decided to base Anti-Ballistic Missiles in Eastern Europe NATO countries. Russia was concerned that continuation of such practices would destabilize Mutually Assured Destruction (by being able to intercept Russian nukes), and potentially signal US intentions to risk a first strike and regimen change operation against Russia. Considering that the US, at that point, had already invaded and regime changed two other countries in just the previous 6 years, it might make more sense why that would color Russia's strategic calculus.

>>>Russia could never have joined the alliance while it was under Putin because it's not a %@$&ing liberal democracy.

When Russia was first floating the idea of joining the EU and/or NATO circa 2001-2003, you could argue Russia wasn't significantly worse than Ukraine in relevant metrics. He only had a handful of suspiciously-dead journalists and potential false-flag bombings under his belt. I don't think they had a crackdown on western NGOs, LGBT rights, or totally rigged elections (Putin had, and continues to have, a lot of genuine support).
> If I'm trying to hire, I need to include at least some of those sexy tech stacks in my posting if I want to get good applicants

I understand your reasoning, however it may put off some good hires because they don't meet one of your bogus requirements.
That was my comment about methylation? It's currently at +1, maybe you upvoted to balance out a down-vote? ;)

How old is your daughter? Is she on birth control, either for being a fertile woman who doesn't want to be pregnant (i.e., to sabotage her fertility) or to treat dysmenorrhea?

My friend's health was sabotaged with depot provera, the time-release endocrine disruptor. Progesterone is a very important brain hormone. Progesterone USP is a synthetic version of what the body makes for itself.

Sometimes all a person needs to improve their metabolism is real b-vitamins from whole wheat sourdough bread (slow yeast -> natural b-vitamins, instead of synthetic b-vitamins).

You can contact me through Twitter - I have more ideas about solving depression. My username is at the bottom of my Mad In America essay (link in my other comment).

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> don't bother with emacs if you're not interested in writing lisp.

Strong disagree. I used Emacs as a power user heavily for about a decade with virtually no elisp knowledge (beyond simple conditionals and setting variables - I couldn't write a loop for example).

Once I learned elisp ... it hasn't been a game changer. Sure, occasionally I tweak things the way I like it with custom elisp code, but there are enough config options and packages out there to do what I need without my having to write elisp code.
Never understood why you wouldn't, at the minimum, open source it if you're shutting the doors
Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with Clip Latents [pdf]
Exactly. I'm finding it very hard to follow HN's rules and not engage in personal attacks against the developer in this thread. It's hard to put into words the disdain I feel towards the kinds of people who build things like this.

We really need better platforms than what we have now, these types of people deserve to hear what we really think of them, instead of being protected by "moderation".
Hijacking the hijacking of the thread ;p
> or the '>' convention, but that doesn't actually apply formatting

Personally, I prefer to combine the '>' convention with italics. Still, I'd agree that proper quote formatting would be a welcome improvement.
The JVM can load the same class any number of times through different class loaders -> only the (class, classloader) tuple has to be unique.

I guess the reason they didn’t went the duplicative direction is that java has safe class loading semantics at runtime and due to valuing storage/memory capacity (which was frankly a sane choice, like 10x bigger java projects compile faster than a js project that pretty much just copies shit from one place to another?)
> Orb operators in Africa, Asia, and Europe spoke to BuzzFeed News under the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution from Worldcoin as well as local authorities.

Show that sentence to someone in 1995 it would blow their minds.
The edit should just not affect existing likes & retweets?

i.e. more like a built-in 'delete and re-post', but with preserved metrics.
Can you recommend some good sources on NATO's history? Ideally sources that won't show up on the first page of google please.
There's also climate change though. Building a new gas pipeline while exiting nuclear at the same time seems an odd way to achieve zero carbon.
> NATO is a defensive alliance

Like bombing Libya?

(there is more about Russia vis-a-vis Libya but no need for me to Tangent into that)
Yeah, this is sad because it sounds like Friday was doing something right. It really seems like they could have had sustainable growth.
Some more examples: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1511724264629678084
I couldn't get any of the others work and I lost patience. I really do disline using Markdown variants as they never behave the same and "being surprised" is not really what I want when trying to post a comment.
I always thought that “magic” in software and documentation is like “the” article. Magic == “the feature” in question. The thing “behind” the behavior in question. If you sample articles on metaprogramming, you will see magic being used in relation to it.
I read the spectator and enjoy its news coverage. I was trying to get people to read the arts coverage in spite of their political opinions.
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