skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes and in this context lobbyist means someone with a clear agenda, not a legal designation. You're the one making up meanings to suit yourself
One of the better ones I've found is Tyler Hobbes [0].

I recently found the "Bridges Archive" online [1]. It's a goldmine of ideas (I won't link to them but they have tilings, space filling algorithms, multi-scale Truchet patterns and many more).

I favor the ideas rather than the implementation as I already know how to program so you may do better with learning something like processing/p5.js [2].

In terms of raw ideas, I've found Jared Tarbell to be a huge inspiration [3] [4].

I'm sure I'll get lashed on here for the mere mention of NFTs but I've found there are consistently awesome generative art being displayed on Twitter for artists showing their work and advertising their NFTs for sale. One resource that I've found to be pretty consistently good is fxhash.xyz [5] [6]. Looking for #fxhash tags on Twitter will probably give you rich results.

I also have my own NFTs whose source code I've released as CC0 if you want to take a look [7] (none are for sale right now) along with a half assed attempt at making a list of resources for generative art [8].

There's plenty of "awesome" generative art lists [9] as well as many examples and other projects on p5.js [2]. And of course there's always Reddit [10] [11].

Oh and "Coding Train" is deceptively deep, packing complex ideas in a kind of "cutesy" veneer but still managing to tackle topics that run the gamut of easy to incredibly difficult [12].

There's really too many resources to list. It depends on what level you're at. I tend to focus on Javascript and the 'ideas' rather than the implementation so much. If you're starting from a point of learning programming, you're probably better off going through a tutorial or two on how to actually program and then try and tackle some "classic" generative art examples (grids, recursive grides, flow fields, etc.).

I occasionally run into people who have all their experiments on GitHub which might be enlightening [13].

[0] https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays

[1] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/#gsc.tab=0

[2] https://p5js.org/examples/

[3] http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

[4] http://levitated.net/

[5] https://www.fxhash.xyz/

[6] https://twitter.com/fx_hash_

[7] https://github.com/abetusk/iao

[8] https://github.com/abetusk/iao/blob/main/Notes.md

[9] https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/generative

[11] https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/

[12] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

[13] https://github.com/anaulin/generative-art
Ignore multiplayer for a moment. What stops everyone from just pirating all of the single-player games that are currently sold on GOG?
I have a sincere question for people that are into longevity: Why?

Staving off mental decline makes perfect sense, that’s not what I’m referring to.

There are some people that seem excited to simply push the envelope as to how long they can live for through diet and pharmaceuticals, and I personally don’t really understand that.

What is the particular appeal of e.g. living to be 130 years old?
You might enjoy Context Free Art

https://www.contextfreeart.org/
It’s compelling in context. If the NSA influenced NIST standards 3x in the past — DES, DSA, Dual EC — then shouldn’t we be on high alert this 4th time around?

That NSA is already recommending against hybrid, instead of waiting for the contest results, might signal they’ve once again managed to game the standardization process itself.

At the very least — given the exhaustive history in this post — you’d like to know what interactions NSA and NIST have had this time around. Thus, djb’s FOIA. And thus the lawsuit when the FOIA went unanswered. It all seems very reasonable to me.

What’s that old saying, “fool me thrice…”?
Are you referring to the busybox symlink farm?
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> Libraries have existed for much longer than Wikipedia

That's what I thought untig using Wikipedia a lot. With books information is hardly linked, difficult to save. With Wikipedia, it's super easy to bookmark or copy link in Notes.

> Justly randomly meandering around is a very inefficient and time consuming way of working out what the right paths are.

School and innovation is mostly about meandering around for many years. I find general knowledge notions (geography and history) very useful to attack mathematics, physics or biology notions for example. I think what's very important there is how we link the Wikipedia knowledge and its sources in some "virtual palace".

> again and again till its on your finger tips. Good teachers create such environments

From my experience in school and college, we have the lecture one or a few times and no more. Wikipedia + Google/Lectures + Notebooks make it fun for me to go back to enhance my own notes: add an explaination image, some notes, add a link.
At $CURRENT_JOB we run our postgres database on a massive bare-metal dedicated server running FreeBSD, our container hosts are Alma Linux 8 and the base images are typically debian-slim, though some are alpine or even scratch.
One application where FreeBSD especially shines is as a fileserver to Windows clients: Unlike on Linux, NFSv4 ACLs are supported natively!

The NT ACLs used in Windows and SMB are much more expressive than Linux's POSIX draft ACLs. When a Windows client writes a file to a Linux Samba server, it cannot necessarily express the file's ACL as a POSIX ACL losslessly. To work around this, Samba's vfs_acl_xattr saves the "real" ACL as an extended attribute: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_acl_xa...

This means the ACLs set by clients won't be enforced for local users on the file server, and that you need special tools to view and edit those ACLs.

In contrast, FreeBSD supports NFSv4 ACLs on ZFS, and those are a superset of NT ACLs. Samba saves the NT ACL as an NFSv4 ACL, and this can be viewed or edited using getfacl and setfacl as with any other file on the server.
Definitely depends where in China for this to be true. Shanghai or Beijing? Won't be much, if any, better than in the US. Countryside? Likely will be much better, but food is often scarce in general in these areas.
excel users don't think like this
> fucking CHINA

What's behind this sentiment?

The Chinese system of government is demonstrating itself capable of funding and following through on long-term, large-scale public infrastructure in a way the American system currently struggles to match. Westerners could perhaps ask why this is the case, study the differences, and take some notes from the Chinese in this and some other areas. That doesn't mean sacrificing desirable characteristics of the western system, and it doesn't mean Chinese governance doesn't have its own problems. It means we can all learn from one another in pursuit of improvement. Is this a controversial position?
Very cool. I've seen somewhat similar set ups for fly tying.
I was also not quite aware of such feud! I generally assumed that Poles and Lithuanians got along pretty well, or at least that was my impression from talking to Poles.
Some time later I asked two Lithuanian guys what's up with this, what I saw as, asymmetric feud, and they explained that it may be in part due to some communities in the Polish minority in Lithuania, which were rather pro-Russian. Needless to say I was told that many years before the war in Ukraine, way before 2014 (no idea how the perception is now). This really perplexed me to the point where I permanently gave up understanding this kind of feud/friendship generalisation -- not only this stuff is extremely local, region-wise, and in the long run, it just does not hold up.
Actually that's pretty much exactly the theory I've seen suggested a few times, Harold Klawans is a big believer for a start. He makes a good case in his books that human intelligence is very much the result of the fact that much of our brain growth occurs post-birth as our bodies increase in size, which makes us quite different from most other species. It's not just that our brains absorb knowledge as we grow into adults, but transform themselves radically in order to gain particular skills (particularly language processing).
The syntax of GraphQL drives me utterly mad.

I feel like there’s two approaches that one could take to approach queries: a series of programming commands (the way most ORMs work), or an attempt at “plain language” (SQL and GraphQL).

Both approaches are fine, but if one wanted to take the latter approach… why not just use the syntax of SQL? It’s better in every conceivable way that GraphQL, equally legible but much more powerful.

GraphQL is idiot baby talk, I’m baffled by why we have to waste time dumbing down expressions for no clear payoff.
my money is on funny business with the ladies in the cockpit. once the pilots fell out of their seat it was over
Do not forget, that GraphQL also cannot get you arbitrarily nested structure, if the client doesn't know the structure ahead of time. Its strength of defining of the structure you want returned, also becomes its weakness. If there is some tree structure you want to query, you will need to work around it. This has been discussed at length on github issues and there is unwillingness to change this. Who knows what kind of refactoring would be required for that to work.

However, I think GraphQL vs REST is a false dichotomy. One could probably maintain a GraphQL endpoint as well as a REST API, and use whatever is most appropriate for the use case of the client. People really should stop treating GraphQL as some kind of complete replacement for a REST API or "the new way of doing things" or acting like "the days of REST APIs are counted".
> I didn't even notice a "punching down about mental health" thing. You wrote a long comment, I skimmed it.

That tracks, okay. It’s the weekend and I’m a nobody on the internet. Thank you for talk the time to continue to engage with me.

> Your allegation that Filippo and Matt Green are antisemitic is ludicrous.

That isn’t an allegation that I am making, you are misunderstanding and misrepresenting my statements. My comment even disclaimed that this probably isn’t intentional, merely that it is one read of that meme. My core point is this: posting that meme is unhelpful in a thread about Bernstein’s supposedly harmful behavior. Maybe you think it’s a funny joke, I don’t.

Either way - funny joke or not - it certainly isn’t a healthy discourse for “the community” to call someone names and to dismiss them as some kind of unhinged conspiracy theorist.

> I didn't say Bernstein had his ass handed to him.

Indeed, I did not claim to quote you there. I am characterizing your words into what I understand as your point. Let’s call this “the sore loser discourse” - it is repeated in this thread by others. It seems to be implied by my read when you say: “…he opted to participate in was corrupted by dint of not prioritizing his own designs.” I preemptively acknowledge that I may have misunderstood you.

What do you mean to convey by “dint of not” roughy? Don’t SPHINCS+ (Standardized in round three) and Classic McEliece (still in the running) count as prioritizing his designs? Also, what is wrong with participating in this standardization process? He seems to be unhappy with NIST before, and during the process, and with ample cause. By participating, it’s clear he has learned more and by winning parts of the competition, he’s not a sore loser.

If he wasn’t a part of this competition, people would probably dismiss his criticism as simply being outside. It’s harder to dismiss him if he is part of it, and even harder when his submissions win. It isn’t a clean sweep, but it’s lifetime achievement levels for some people to have a hand in just one such algorithm, selected in such a process. He has a hand in several remaining submissions as far as I understand the process and the submissions.

> I said that he wrote thousands and thousands of words about his reasons to mistrust NIST (not just here but elsewhere, and often),

So you note he has been saying these things for a long time. On that we agree.

> but still participated in the PQC contest,

You go on to note that he then participated in the process. He is documented in his attempts to use the process tools to raise specific issues and to try to have them settled by NIST as promised, with transparency. NIST has failed to bring that transparency.

Confusingly (to me anyway) your next statement continues with a contradiction:

> raising these concerns only at its conclusion

Which is it? Was he constantly raising these issues or only raising them at the end (of round three)?

Alternatively I could read this as “at its (the blog post) conclusion” which would be extremely confusing. I presume this isn’t what you meant but if so, okay, I am really missing the point.
I would start off by learning the Canvas API for HTML/JavaScript [1][2]. All you need is a web browser, no extra software or dependencies (well, maybe just a text editor to edit an index.html file on your Desktop). You can test out snippets from MDN and StackOverflow in your browser’s JavaScript console. Once you have a minimal, working example (e.g., a 512x512 square canvas with a color gradient), start messing around with the code and see how it affects the canvas image. For example, modify the parameters of your loops or flip the loop order of nested loops. Focus on the principles rather than on learning any particular technology. Simpler is better when learning; the “best” production software is not necessarily the best to learn with; don’t forget the Telescope Rule [3]. Once you have a foundation for basic graphics, it will be much easier to learn shaders.

[1] https://codepo8.github.io/canvas-images-and-pixels/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API

[3] https://wiki.c2.com/?TelescopeRule
The point here isn't copy pasting C code into C++ verbatim. The changes needed to translate C code into valid C++ code that does the same are very simple. One could translate many thousands of lines of C into C++ in an hour.

More so, the point here isn't even translating an existing codebase where small bugs could surface. It's just explaining concepts. None of the C to C++ differences would matter.

If an answer to OPs question was in C, he could trivially convert that C example into C++.
The author doesn’t answer the question. If not this, then what will? Because as far as I can tell, we’re nowhere near extracting the full value of AI-generated protein structures. Why plant this flag and be wrong later if you have no real idea of what should be done instead?
you are so not the target user my dude
> The problem is that you can feel like this all day, but you won't be any more able to perform absent the aid of a digital prosthesis.

All tools are prostheses. Mastery of a tool incorporates it into your proprioception. Do you think about the motions your fingers need to make, when you type? No, of course not - you think about the words you are writing, and they appear. AI tools will be the same, once we get used to them; we will be able to think about the things we are creating at a higher level of abstraction.

Once upon a time there were workrooms full of skilled artisans who spent their days copying books by hand. Along came movable type, and that creative endeavor became financially worthless. Today practically nobody has those skills. A loss? Yes... but do we care? Not really; we'd rather let the 'mechanical prosthesis' of the printing press handle what now seems to us to be the rote work of book production.
I've loved these books:

Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing
by Hartmut Bohnacker

Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing
by Matt Pearson
This is something I’ve wondered as well. Coming from the military and occasionally working with spec-ops, I would say having a few “full stack” teams would be the way to go. I am just a lowly dev though, so what do I know?

The separation of front/backend has always been mildly entertaining to me and I’ve worked on both teams. Btw, if you ever want to cause a political mess, just submit a PR to add a new API endpoint to the backend team that “doesn’t have the time” to work on it. Woah boy, they will get mighty pissed. As a backend engineer these days, it would be a blessing to get free work from another team… I don’t know why they were so pissed that one time.
I believe by batching they mean operating on collections of entities instead of single ones. So you may have POST /pets to create a single pet from a json object, but what if you want to add a hundred pets at once? Even with multiplexing, this is often way less efficient. Often the solution is to have POST /pets/bulk which takes a list of objects.
Schools Spent Millions on Faulty Covid Scanners
> yet since no thought was put into how it might integrate into existing typed languages [...]

Says who?

> [...] its actually surprisingly difficult to build a type-safe API around it.

Again, says who? The consumers of the APIs I work on are mostly written in Typescript and constructing types based on the GraphQL schema is a completely automated process. Are you telling me that it's easier to build type safe APIs based on examples of what JSON each endpoint might output?

> And yes, SQL is "bad" because you write query strings

Ok then every single language is bad because every language's syntax is based on (conceptually) constructing strings. I don't get your point.
That was a really great listen, thanks! It actually mentions some of the concepts discussed around here (up or down, may be hard to tell in a while) about how people perceived the Commonwealth and the Republic.
It's interesting that when it comes to cannabis they often do the opposite - that is they give subjects synthetic THC rather than the whole spectrum extract.
THC isolate is quite nasty - but the same amount of THC combined with CBD and other cannabinoids can work wonders.

I think there may be that if they isolated psilocybin, they could have missed other compounds that play a part in causing desired effects. Obviously this is a different substance than cannabinoids, but I think when it comes to plants it makes more sense to test it exactly how subjects use it rather than use synthetics.

edit: I hope I didn't cause offence to any mushroom - of course they are not plants, but I hope you get my point.
For many of the titles, purchased DLC will no longer work. Presumably because the game asks the server if the DLC has been purchased and the server will no longer be there to reply.

So yes, people will be able to play the base games but will no longer be able to play the additional content they purchased.
It forces git to intereperet what comes after as paths. Normally this is not needed, but occasionally you get a filename that causes ambiguity.

For instance, "git checkout test.c" will check out the file test.c unless you happen to have a branch called "test.c". (See also people complaining that checkout is overloaded".

Simmilarly, "git add --verbose test.c" will add test.c, and log that to stdout. "git add -- --verbose test.c" will add test.c and --verbose, where "--verbose" is the name of a file.

This isn't git specific, most CLI tools use "--" to restrict the parsing on arguements that follow.
Branches are easy, what with them being only labels:

> git branch --all

Tags are different, since they are actual objects in git, but using ls-remote isn’t tough, and one could create an alias.
Totally agree. Amazon sent me two memory cards when I ordered one, so I called them and told them to charge me for the second.
Software equivalent of a supernova, if you squint.
You said this up thread and I find it incorrect:

> If you RTFA you'd know it pertains to bribery, not coercion

By quoting the article it seems the text directly contradicts your summary as being too narrow. General coercion is also be included as part of the concerns raised by TFA. He isn’t just talking about NSA giving a person a sack of money.

Meanwhile in this thread and on Twitter, many people are indeed doing the things you say that nobody is doing.

We almost all use Bernstein’s crypto — some as mere users, others as developers, etc. I’m not sure what that brings to the discussion.

I’m glad we agree that his work to gather more information is a public good.
programmers who don't work with time be like
Why? Shouldn't you think about whether this style is over in terms of its contribution to art? Sure all the cool AI companies drop "generative" in their press stuff but is it interesting anymore? The main advances were made in the 50s and 60s (e.g. the very idea of generative and systems art was invented). Now we can see generative systems taken to their literal extreme in DALL-E.

But if generative art is just an idea about art then what else is there?

Anyway some early generative art pioneers (I take a European mid 20th century angle because mid 2000s MIT grads did not invent this field):

https://monoskop.org/Max_Bense (his idea of information aesthetics is what we are in now and has becoming more or less boring as an idea about art imo)
https://monoskop.org/Frieder_Nake
Many nice examples here http://dada.compart-bremen.de/
There's certainly no reason to suppose that natural selection could be capable of producing truly general intelligence. And I'm a fan of the theory that says our brains are too simple to be able to truly understand how our own brains work. And no matter how increasingly complex our brains became, that would probably always be true. But it is remarkable how much we do seem to be capable of - certainly far more than was ever necessary for us to compete against other species for survival.
On the other hand. Nuclear is not immune to natural conditions either. Look at France, currently turning off reactors because of lack of cooling water due to the drought.