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> If STEM graduates alone could increase a country’s wealth then India would be the global superpower.

India is plausibly on the way to being a global superpower [0]. Unless something changes that they can outdo the US in the next 20 years.

If the Chinese government goes dictatorial and predictably suicides their own economy, and the US government keeps committing to the print-money-no-worries "strategy" it isn't out of the question that India could be the global superpower by 2040.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/india-will-overtake-t...
This is the fifth time you've posted this in the past 23 days.

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This is VERY cool. Congrats!
The Point: U.S. expands export controls on China's chip sector
My company is using this in production to stream messages/online presence to our Unity game clients and it works very well.
"You can always outbid someone else for a rental" is both not true and misses the problem that regulation aims to solve.

You can only outbid someone if you have more money than them. The lower on the income scale you are, the less this is an option, until it just stops bring an option at all!

Not to mention, it is drastically unfair and inhumane to consign people to live in the streets simply because they are poor, or simply poorer than the next. Rent control gives a measure of dignity to the poor, and ensures that -- at least a little bit -- when times get hard, we all suffer, the rich renters and the landlords too, not just the poor renters.
And most butterflies when displayed in icons and such are dead [0].

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[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
Surprisingly accessible description of common optimizations; a useful survey for beginning compiler writers.
Kind of sad to equate culture with capitalistic endeavour. There’s a lot more to the world than that.
You said, "don't reproduce code verbatim" as the option. Maybe you should use the actual name of the option if you want people to know what you're talking about. The "with public code blocked" option I am aware of, and is distinctly different from what you said. Don't be a dick, and if you want to be a dick, be right the first time or piss off.
Sounds like a bug report is due to Glider, then. Now that code blocks are fixed on mobile in the default stylesheet, I think they're fair game.
I'm much less pessimistic than you. A bunch of Trump-appointed judges ruled against Trump in voter fraud cases. The Supreme Court has ruled against him too. Mike Pence wore an "R" label, but still didn't go along with the January 6 nonsense.

I admit that there is plenty of data in favor of your position. But there is significant data against it, too, and you're not seeing it. So far, team "law" is winning - though by much less of a margin than I'd like.
Note that this explanation is only one of the (many) incidents outlined in the (long) Vice post. As the Vice article points out, the tweet was over 4 years old when he was arrested for it. The Indian article[1] about the arrest doesn't make any claims about the tweet going viral or being responsible for the things the OP is claiming here. Notably neither the police themselves not the complainant make these claims.

This quote summarises the overall situation reasonably well:

> A 2021 transparency report released by Twitter revealed that India was the single largest source of government takedown requests in the second half of 2020—accounting for 25 percent of the global volume. The compliance rate for these requests was 0.6 percent in India, as opposed to 30 percent globally.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/altnews-co-fo...
They already have a "high speed rail network" between Boston and DC (through NYC); it's called the Amtrak Acela Express.

I put "high speed" in quotes above for a reason, however...
I think I operate in those orbits, but I haven't come across much Haskell (plenty of TS, Golang, Rust). Where Haskell has cropped up it was typically in the context of "we want to prove this code is correct" (plausibly important if money is being transacted), plus a bit of "we like Haskell so we used it".
That's why we don't talk about "equal treatment" in diversity and inclusion, we talk about "equitable treatment".

Same but different here.

"Equality" is an inherently unfair concept because not all humans come into the system with equal footing, or in equal conditions.

And so to simply, and blindly, treat everyone identically - what you mean to say is "equal" here - would be a bad approach.

Pedantically speaking, you can certainly argue that "equal" is not grammatically correct, but I think everyone else understands what's being said.
What are the problems with process gates?
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> The reason why it's easy to match Copilot results back to the original source is that the users are starting with prompts that match their public code, deliberately to cause prompt regurgitation.

Sounds like MS has devised a massive automated code laundering racket.
Any takeaways? Is it a promising direction? Would it be viable to create an “isomorphic rust” web app?
Any word on how necessary the app is? Not really comfortable with the direction this technology is going when it has to be paired with an app, with your data sent to who know who.
nvm looks like the basic charge for access model. Still pretty cool
In my experience IRC is much more popular than XMPP, although after the freenode situation some folks switched to self-hosted XMPP instead of IRC.
> While the prices are still not what you'd call cheap, they're far less than prescription hearing aids that can run $1,000-$4,000 per ear, according to Consumer Reports.
Poll: Do you use WebAuthn for authentication?
Yeah he is. Wow, totally misread that, that makes a lot more sense.
I think that's backwards. The AI doesn't "forget", it never even knew what novelty is in the first place.
I see this getting the OLGA treatment too. Nice idea but won’t last long.
That flies in the face of my direct experience working with these people, but sure let's take your assumption at face value.

By this logic everyone on salary in any career must be a cheap, dumb slacker, after all there is no difference between accounting on salary, plumbing on salary, writing software on salary or working in a warehouse on salary. The exact same logic applies.

Or maybe, just maybe doing plumbing on salary has the exact same set of tradeoffs as doing any other job on salary and people choose either for different reasons.
> In theory it simply favors a well-informed citizenry.

This is a terrible "theory." No voter can be fully informed. I'm not even talking about the asymmetric information that leaders have (information from spy networks, experts, etc). Literally no single person can comprehend all these connections and complexities involved in many things. This is what representatives are supposed to resolve, but they frequently fail us. Your vote always is and always will be a guess. There may be a handful of subjects you're qualified to be an expert on, but the rest are effectively guesses. An "informed" voter is one that knows they are uninformed and doing their best.

This isn't a comment encouraging autocracy, but one against this myth of "education is the end all be all solution." We should inform people as much as possible but also be encouraging nuanced discussions. Wisdom of the crowds is powerful, but we also need to recognize the limitations.

> I would be curious if exit pollsters have ever asked this question. Ask people who they voted for, but also who they think will win. It would be interesting to see how accurate guesses are.

Absolutely not! We want to protect the secrecy of the vote. This can only encourage the degradation of that privacy. There are many ways to extract more information from votes without revealing identity. Cardinal methods, especially Score and STAR, give you a lot more information that you can use infer voter preferences. These methods also allow you to vote honestly, which defeats the entire purpose of your poll question.
Yeah it looks OK for me, using Firefox on Android.
Sorry, for the late reply. I would definitely be interested. How can I try it?

I am not super familiar with lite-xl's plugin system and have only installed one plugin yet (the vim plugin).
Interesting. So a front end could utilize HTMX to do dynamic client side rendering without javascript, limiting what goes server-side to only the things the server needs. Sounds very promising.

The code looks a bit complicated though. Some explanation of what’s going on would be helpful.
GP is just highlighting why this is so common and often a challenging edge case. If you ask it for something that's exactly in its dataset, the "best" solution that minimizes loss will be that existing code. Thus, it's somewhat intrinsic to applying statistical learning to text completion.

This means MS really shouldn't have used copyleft code at all, and really shouldn't be selling copilot in this state, but "luckily" for them, short of a class action suit I don't really see any recourse for the programmers who's work they're reselling.
This is awesome! Great job.

Have you posted this to Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/

They would love it!
Mark Zuckerberg could spend the rest of his natural life running Facebook and Instagram and Oculus and WhatsApp into the ground and he and his family will never ever once be anywhere remotely near what any other human on Earth terms “trouble”.

The success of Facebook, and the strategic acquisitions of IG and WA are sufficient for him to fail spectacularly for the rest of his days with no real impact.

I regard all of this bumbling around with VR as his semi-retirement. He could never hit another home run and his grandchildren will still have yachts. Throw more stuff at the wall.
Given an objective scientific fact, what is the appropriate policy that should be enacted concerning that fact? That depends on your values, priorities and ethical framework, none of which have objectively correct answers.
It's the best and most practical
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's still a legal headache for Microsoft but it's not like they're just blatantly ignoring the license
I've worked 35 years in technology under contract and direct hire in CA, TX, NY, PA, DC, MD & NC, and I have never not seen an NDA, which is par for the course in IT (which is not software development), nor have I ever known an employer that tolerated moonlighting. I knew a wizkid Cisco guy, 23yo at the time and already competent with impressive NOC, switch and UNIX sysadmin skills making bank in Austin, took a second full time job for a comparable salary, neither remote. He worked 80-100hrs every week, day and evening shifts, and didn't get caught for 2 years. But when he was caught, he was fired from both locations and lost their references. I doubt it held him back much, and I am sure he has recovered by now, but had to explain 3 years missing from his resume at every next job interview.
Have you had a best friend you didn’t meet before age 22 (or whenever you finished college)? I imagine it’s the same sort of mechanics at play.
> I think it was meant like, which decision had more favorable results.

How does one even do this? Wait a hundred years? It's still probably impossible to determine the outcome of alternative policies. The right/wrong mindset is not only dangerous, but impossible in principle. But the autocrats won't tell you that.
Current State of the US Housing Market
This is brilliant and I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time, thank you!

Quick request: the experience would be even better if we could search for words/phrases within the screenplays of a particular episode/series/movie. Many times I randomly have a not-so-popular dialog in my head from a TV show or movie, and then find it incredibly difficult to find which particular scene it was from.
GPA, letters of rec, honors, and personal essays are all subject to the inherent privilege richer students and students in stable households have. Got to do something cool over the summer because your parents can afford to give you that luxury? Teacher writes you a letter of rec because they connect with you more. Have a stable household? GPA goes up and you take honors classes because your focus is uninterrupted.

I was the kid who every year when asked what they did for summer said "nothing". I was the kid who missed homework assignments because of yet another argument or separation between parents at home last night where I played peacemaker. On my personal essays I had to lie and make up experiences I had never had because we simply did not have the money for a vacation or takeout.

GPAs, letters of rec, honors only prove that a student has a safe and secure environment and they are able to excel over a long term. That is a reflection of privilege.

For those of us who grew up in poor and broken households, standardized testing is the only chance for us to get a better life. Everyone who speaks out against it does so from a position of privilege because they have 0 idea what it's like to grow up in that type of environment.
It’s not hypocrisy to think some jobs shouldn’t be automated. I don’t teach, but I definitely want human teachers teaching my kin, not AI teachers.
> This is the first I’m hearing of the anti-Tesla sentiment actually being an oil industry psyop.

It’s not anti-Tesla it’s anti sustainable energy.

One of the books Elon most frequently recommends (and I mean very frequently… if this is the first you’re hearing of it, that’s kind of a red flag that you don’t know your topic!) is Merchants of Doubt, which is about how massive corporate interests (on scales that dwarf Tesla… think big tobacco and big oil) historically have funded biased and ethically compromised research and journalism to advance their agendas (as well as, of course, lobbying, no surprise there). I don’t know if big oil and big your-dad’s-auto are doing this now, but the motivation is there, so it’s a fair bet that they are. And then there are short sellers. And then individuals who have to rationalize their purchase of a $70,000 gas Audi because nicer leather.

But yeah I agree Tesla is going through obsessive fandom phases.
> let's not confuse them for the actual great powers behind great power competition.

Yes, let’s not. The Papacy is a 2000 year old institution and the current great powers are only a small fraction as mature. I’m betting the Papacy will outlive them all.
The "runs on non-renewable" is not a good argument, because the amount of uranium we have would last hundreds of thousands of years.

The fact that it is not evenly distributed is a real concern, though.
Raising awareness is usually a step before a class-action lawsuit.
In the video game cyberpunk 2077, there's a mission called Coin Operated Boy. It's a vending machine that has a really good language AI. It fooled people in the game, people would talk to it about their problems, it acted as a sort of therapist, it's weird
Can you give some each side examples? I am obviously partisan, I want to understand what things done by "my side" are seen as having equivalence to ones done by the other side.

Gerrymander might be an example. I'm pretty sure both major parties exploit it shamelessly.
There is no "without javascript" here. There is a javascript library linked to your html and it then modifies / supplements behavior of the DOM elements. Javascript / DOM / HTML / CSS is super dynamic and flexible combo that can do what looks like a miracle to unfamiliar.
This is beautiful and even revolutionary. The references from poetry and other great works that provide context for why those words mean what they do to us are a stroke of genius.
Kakao service disruptions due to datacentre fire cause nationwide mayhem
I'm no fan of cryptocurrencies, but as far as I know they do avoid debt; while there are e.g. crypto margin loans, if you get margin called and blown out then no-one expects to be able to collect the remainder, much less use the machinery of the state to enforce that.
Right—the problem is not that building apartments that actually support people's needs (beyond the bare minimum) is impossible, it's that it costs more money than the bare minimum to do so.

And if there are no sound-dampening apartments available in a particular area and price range, then the apartments you're trying to rent out not having them isn't a competitive disadvantage, so why bother?
And are you willing to risk the chance that some other civilization won't share that belief and will instead choose to destroy you?
Seems to be working for me again now. :)
Yeah this is not legal. It might be the top post here, but all works are copyrighted.
> which is testable and is grounded in reality.

How? This is absolutely impossible. You can't run trials. Yes, we can analyze the effects of policies (which we should certainly be doing more of) but these results can also take decades. We can only do a singular experiment and so our sample is biased to all hell. There is no objective truth here, only results of a single experiment.
It's true, there are many corridors and routes, and not just on the coasts, where HSR would be quite feasible in America. The problem is that Americans refuse to see this and refuse to accept train travel as acceptable. You can talk until you're blue in the face about how many people transit regularly between LA and SF, or between DC and NYC and Boston, or between Houston and Dallas, and Americans will simply counter that a train between NYC and LA takes too long, and therefore trains are a completely unworkable solution anywhere in the whole country.

There's just no political will to implement true HSR in America and I don't think there ever will be.
The demo also demonstrates why something like this is insufficient: you can’t rely on the service worker loading. Service workers must be optional. There’s a reason invocations always start by checking if navigator.serviceWorker even exists, and why navigator.serviceWorker.register() returns a Promise, and why the ServiceWorkerRegistration type is comparatively complicated: service workers aren’t permitted in all contexts, and even when they are, they’re installed asynchronously in the background after the page finishes loading.

To show this easily, try this in a Firefox Private Browsing window: service workers are disabled there, so the request goes through to the server, which responds 405 Method Not Allowed.

So in order to make this approach reliable, you’ll need to run that code on your server, not just in the service worker. This is totally viable, but an approach that has seen surprisingly little experimentation. (I myself have a grand scheme that’s actually fairly fleshed out, but I’ve only touched it once in the last year and a half, so don’t hold your breath. My scheme is predicated upon aggressively not requiring client-side scripting, but using it only for completely optional enhancement; and upon running the same source code in a worker, in a service worker, at the edge or on the origin server, with only a teeny bit of JavaScript on the main thread.)
The premise of the DFH is just so bizzare. Essentially godlike aliens go around killing other aliens for hell of it. It'S fOr SeLf ProTeCtIoN! Please. If you're a godlike alien, you don't actually have to care about anyone else. Hell, not only do you actually have to deal with intergalactic distances, we're talking about a plan that requires at this point quadrillions of individuals to be dedicated to multiple 100,000 year plans of preêmptive genocide against literally unknown civilizations.

I'm sorry. But I'm not supposed to suspend disbelief for serious discussions.

The older I get, the more I find these debates as tedious as medieval demonologists wondering about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and who is the fifth viscount of the third circle of Hell, and just what exactly is his bailiwick.
A Beginner's Guide to the CLIP Model
Yes and most of the elected officials who went against Trump on the right either retired or lost in the primaries.

I’m proud to say that the Republican government in GA stood strong against the stupidity. But many state officials didn’t in other states.
In the books the weapons to destroy entire star systems can be used seemingly without to much cost.
Out living doesn't imply power though, it only means that it can survive.
Cool, will look into that.
I tried some very simple queries with copilot on random stuff, and tried to trace it back to the source. I was successful about 1/3 of the time.

(Sorry I didn't log my experiment results at the time. None of it was related to work I'd done - I used time adjustment functions if I remember correctly)
I don't understand what is nonsense, how it works? Your response seems to be for something entirely different.

But anyway, how I see stable diffusion being different is that it's a tool to generate all sorts of images, including copyrighted images.

It's more like a database of *how to* generate images rather than a database *of* images. Maybe there isn't that much of a difference when it comes to copyright law. If you ask an artist to draw a copyrighted image for you, who should be in trouble? I'd say the person asking most of the time, but in this case we argue it's the people behind the pencil or whatever. Why? Because it's too easy? Where does a service like fiver stand here?

So if a tool is able to generate something that looks indistinguishable from some copyrighted artwork, is it infringing on copyright? I can get on board with yes if it was trained on that copyrighted artwork, but otherwise I'm not so sure.
I'm not sure what you mean by "unenforceable." In all cases, the job is lost, and that is enforcement enough. It isn't a criminal issue, and I seriously doubt anyone has ever been arrested, but nothing can stop a lawsuit from being filed. Whether it is successful or not isn't the issue. Even if you win a lawsuit, you can still lose your savings and your home. So be careful with your signature, read the fine print, and be resigned to keep your word, and have no worries. Screw around, and you'll at the very least be terminated without a reference for however long you worked, leaving ugly conspicuous gaps in your resume. 9 times out of 10, an employer will hire the less competent but more honest individual. Once you lose your credibility, it's gone.
You linked OPIndia website as your reference, can you please share even one article posted on OPIndia against BJP or current Modi government?
Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
> Principles of mathematical analysis by Rudin.

What are prerequisites for that book?
There has been a question in the back of my mind how car ads flash through paint jobs, I thought that must have been a lot of rotoscoping. I never questioned if the car was even real.

Even then, the ads with the cgi cars just look the slightest bit off, no? The inauthenticity in general becomes somewhat melancholy.
It's solved now.
> Is GitHub violating the LGPL by including the code in their copilot data?

If Microsoft’s fair use analysis is correct, not actionably (at least under US law) because it is within the fair use exception to copyright.

> Or is it Copilot users who end up using the regurgitated code?

These aren't exclusive options; either, both, or neither could be true.