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The number of man hours that would be necessary to plausibly fake even a short film in Photoshop, if I had to guess. It strikes me as analogous to owning sidearms versus BMGs and rocket launchers. One of these tools makes doing bad things far easier.

Another analogy. Say somebody makes some hacking kit. Say it uses zero day exploits to compromise Windows, Mac, and Linux. Would any of us take issue with that? Would it be a different story if it was made into a push-button tool like WinNuke was in the 1990s? Or automated to the extent that somebody who can make a word doc could employ it against your systems? Is there really no feasible line of distinction here, in your eyes?
Your reasoning is a little dubious there.

I should not favor suing the department when I can find no legal theory under which they should be liable. And in this case it was an individual officer mistake that directly did no harm, and was corrected as soon as it came to the department's attention. I'm not going to find anything in police training or general behavior that fits with this mistake being a general pattern that is endemic to the department. I see no damages or legal relief that makes sense here.

Arguing about what good might come from the department losing said lawsuit is like debating how convenient it might be if pigs could fly. The whole conversation is based on something that isn't going to happen, and therefore isn't a real possibility. And any attempt to go from discussion to reality by actually filing said lawsuit is a waste of effort.
> I think luck definitely plays a major role, but I also wonder if genetics is more at play than people are willing to admit.

I certainly include genetics in the 'luck' component of life, and I am under the impression most people do. ADHD and autism, for example, are extreme examples of genetic impact on executive function, which is commonly confused with willpower and other 'personal decisions'.
Thanks for the info, it looks like this device does have an auto-off feature for when the electrodes aren't in good contact and it is battery powered so no mains connection. Also has a ramp up and ramp down for current at the beginning and end.
Not even that. I'd use Nodejs, Go, C#, etc... which are battle tested, have strong communities, and plenty of support.
> "She’s a darn good-looking airplane… An incredible honor for me"

don't all 747's look the same by definition? lol
> is undefined behaviour, which means the compiler is allowed to assume it never happens

No it's not. Or let me rephrase that. The standard says the following:

Permissible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment (with or without the issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic message).

Which of these is "the compiler is allowed to assume it does not happen"?
None. It's all plain BS that capitalistic companies are using as a leverage to gamify the market. Engineers are particularly bad in playing this game and are easy to deceive so that they start to believe it is a real thing (as seen in some comments above).

When a football team does not meet the expectations, it is the manager who gets blamed for the failure and who gets the sack and rarely the players. We, sadly, live in a different world.
Given the state of the "Microsoft Store" on windows... dear lord we are lucky that is not the case.

I do love Microsoft to a large degree for a lot of things.. but holy shit they suck ASS at things like store fronts in their own ecosystem. I have barely ever been forced to use it, but it literally did not work or gave me random cryptic errors when I did.
Right, just verification is all that's needed. "Killingly police records confirm Rivers was arrested on January 77th" or whatever. Or maybe "Killingly police confirm Rivers was detained briefly, but note that he was never arrested". Anything like that would be great. Even "Reached for comment, Killingly police were unable to confirm Rivers' arrest, but would not deny the arrest occurred" would at least be something.

But failing to even get that far tells me that either the author doesn't care about whether this is true (not unlikely given her day job), or that they're deliberately hiding something (maybe "Killingly police deny the arrest and have no record of the interaction with Rivers").
I think it's common to go through life thinking that the absolute worse thing you can be is annoying.

You can fear being annoying to the point of becoming mute.

If life looks very small, consider becoming slightly more annoying.
> If the government is tyrannical, they don't need an AI as an excuse.

Only in the fairytale tyrannies that exist in the heads of Western nationalists. Real tyrannies rest on the labor of a large cadre professionals and managers, and constantly have to justify themselves or risk being overthrown. "AI," or any credential for that matter, has the purpose of isolating the decision from the decision makers. It's tyranny-laundering; tyranny in the passive voice.
My definition of success is group identity become decoupled from economic deprivation. Vietnamese went from being one of the poorest groups in the country in the 1980 census to having median incomes comparable to whites.

Obviously I'm not denying that political participation never works. But Obamacare or child labor laws are society-wide improvements. I'm talking specifically about disadvantaged groups organizing as a way out of their disadvantaged predicament. On that front, organizing has had limited success. For example, you mention eliminating de jure segregation, which was obviously great. But black-white income gaps are pretty much the same today as in 1965.
That's really great news! I am so happy for them and everything they have accomplished and will continue to accomplish. It's truly an inspiration to me.
Or even further back in time: I watched "The Thing" (1982) the other day and the practical effects were far more frightening than any CGI monsters I've ever seen.
How's Rocky coming along?

I used to be a RHEL admin and was just more comfortable over there, but after the whole CentOS mess I ended up running Ubuntu LTS at home instead - I just wanted a "set it and forget it" machine so I didn't go with Fedora.

I'm currently regretting that decision, as I'm really not looking forward to devoting another weekend to rebuilding again.
Nuclear medicine in middle-income countries has almost certainly saved orders of magnitude more people than it's killed.

Even the specific source in the Goiânia accident could easily have been responsible for saving more lives than it ended up taking.

Of course these things have risks. But these radiotherapy sources aren't being used for fun; the benefits are substantial. That an accident that killed 4 people is significant enough to get its own name and Wikipedia article suggests to me that the risk isn't actually that high.
As far as I know, they live in Washington state. Which should help with the tax on income at least a little bit, given the state has no income tax.

Still, yeah, having the entire amount being dropped on them in a single year will probably have pretty major federal income tax consequences. Hopefully, they will figure it out, and the sales of Dwarf Fortress on steam won't dwindle. I find that it is a pretty good timing for the release, given that Rimworld (the spiritual competitor) has gone extremely mainstream, so people are definitely more open these days to that type of games.
that is really cool

it's interesting how it's a direct application of calculus. was not expecting that
Herons’s method is just Newton’s method applied to the problem of computing a square root recast as a rootfinding problem.
Pre-lockdown, when standup meetings were actual meetings, I had a tough time dealing with them because of my hearing loss. Our meetings are engineer - only, led by a project manager. In the olden days they were literally people standing around a block of cubicles, talking (or mumbling) to their shoes. I got absolutely nothing out of them, couldn't hear a thing. When I told my manager that, his response was "too bad, attend anyway". The meetings are now virtual, and work much, much better for me.
I am a formal congressional staffer in both the House and the Senate and virtually no one reads any given bill or even cares much about what is in it other than memorizing the talking points about it. Bills are almost completely written by lobbyists and a bunch of 23 year old staffers are not knowledgeable enough to have any valid comprehension or input.

The job of a congressional staffer is to ensure reelection so we spend almost our time getting the member on the most powerful committees (for more campaign contributions) and getting on tv (for free media).

Committees do spend more time on the content of bills but each member usually only has one staffer for multiple committees and they are still told how to vote by the party.
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
I think we need to slow down and look at this with level heads.

1. What is a reliable measure of this "vast percentage"?

2. Are you perhaps lumping any departure from your preferred political model as "authoritarian"?

3. Are you perhaps overattributing the level of "democracy" to your preferred political regime?

4. Have you considered the motivations behind the distaste with ostensibly "democratic" regimes?

Simply declaring "nationalism!" is not an intellectually substantive remark and probably caricaturish because a) what do you mean by "nationalism", and b) you haven't identified the confluence of motives to see what might be happening and why.

My 2 cents: liberalism as a political ideology traceable to Locke and Hobbes is unraveling because of its inherent tensions and errors (like the tension between knowledge and the mistaken liberal notion of "freedom" understood as "do what thou wilt" versus "do what thou ought"; its radical individualism; its totalitarian "neutrality" which is a manipulative, underhanded means of entrenching liberal presuppositions; its egalitarianism). It is to be expected that someone whose sentiments have been shaped in a social climate that valorizes an ideology will view any departure as hostile and "authoritarian", not on objective grounds, but merely according to habituated affect. You had the same thing in post-Soviet Russia and post-War Germany.
Thanks, appreciate you posting it here. Was skimming for that comparison but didn’t see it.
> Maybe "in your head" means without a calculator but on paper using long division.

There's not really any benefit if you have paper available. But it's possible to do long division (and other "paper" techniques) in your head if your short-term memory is good enough.
That's a good question! I have no clue, but I know that they also patch unsupported packages that probably aren't getting updated anymore. I'm not sure how they assess which packages are vulnerable but I guess some of them already have a fix upstream that didn't go through the (debian or ubuntu) repo maintainers yet.
If the web degenerates to the point where verified identities are required, then it really and truly will have died.
It is actually something you can teach yourself to do.

It requires some practice, but the gist of it is to train awareness around your thoughts, and then to dispassionately label your thoughts when you find yourself stuck in a loop about something. Don't engage with them or try to fight them, just say "that's worrying" or or maybe if your source of stress is you're constantly try to solve all the world's problems, you say "I'm problem-solving".

It's important not to make it a struggle. Just label them over and over again. Two hundred times in an hour if that's what it takes.

If you do that over and over again, not only will it become easier each time to the point where it's almost like flipping a switch and your mind flushes all that crap like an airplane toilet and in the absence impressions of the world come rushing in, it becomes very clear how stuck in a bubble you were. Not only that, which is arguably a benefit in itself, you'll also find yourself stuck in those thought patterns less over time.

It really is an amazingly powerful technique.
You could say the same about almost all types of industrial, chemical and medical waste.
They're extra bodies with more specific responsibilities and, ostensibly (read: ideally), with specialized training.
This comes across as bad but it is actually not that bad.

Those packages are from the universe repo, which includes ~23,000 packages that historically have been best effort maintained (unlike the main repository with ~2,300 packages that have guaranteed maintenance).

Ubuntu continues providing guaranteed maintenance for the main repo for free as it always have.

Now they are adding additional maintenance guarantees for 23,000 packages (which is a positive addition IMO), and making that available via Ububntu Pro

You can opt to not use Ubuntu Pro and you would continue getting the same guarantees as you were getting from Universe as before (which largely tracks Debian)

More details here in the "What's new with the Ubuntu Pro plan" section of https://ubuntu.com/pro
That’s why I think knowledge needs to be better structured than blobs of text scattered everywhere. An AI can be more than an LLM, Wolfram posted recently about that. You can use the LLM to convert a question into a semantic query and a semantic validator and check and amend and provide a semantic knowledge graph explaining an answer and the LLM can convert it back to meat language. I think people confuse LLM with true intelligence, but the cynics also confuse LLM with a complete and fixed point solution.

Your point also seems to assume no curation can happen on what is ingested. Simply because that might be what’s happening now you could also simply train the LLM on known good sources and be as permissive or restrictive as is necessary. Depending on how good the classifiers are for detecting LLM output (openai released on recently) or other generated / automatically derived content you can start to be more permissive.

My point is people seem to be blinded by what is vs what may be. This is not the end of the development cycle of the tech, it’s the pre-alpha release by the first meaningful market entrant. I’d be slower to judge what the future looks like rather than assuming everything stays fixed in time as it is.
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> What the compiler does is assume that undefined behaviour doesn’t happen

That is an incorrect assumption, as it clearly does.

It is also incorrect given the standard text.
Privacy though is perpetuating that priviledged class because they can do their shady business in secret. If everything was transparent, that would be harder to achieve.

Also the "every human society that's ever existed" isn't true, because for sure when humans were nomads, you basically knew what's happening with everybody in your tribe, transparency was at 100%, privacy at 0. It's also the case today in many places such as small villages where everybody knows what everybody else is doing and it seems to be ok.
How many people who can afford a Mac can't ALSO afford a gaming PC? I'd say VERY few. Also, gaming graphical quality probably isn't your goal if you DO choose to game on a Mac. Macs are notoriously underpowered when it comes to gaming.

To add to that, Macs are notorious for not supporting many games. The games that ARE ported are mostly made by big companies, who's profits on the game is so high that hiring a small team to port it to Mac is a small expenditure. Why not port it, eh?

Still, I think gaming on Mac would be in a much better place if they didn't have such a tedious app release process. Having to install xcode (which is an abysmal IDE until you FORCE yourself to unlearn everything you know about, you know, how a reasonable IDE should work!) and sign apps is just pointless drudgework. Unity should handle all of this, but I assume that no one at Apple is returning Unity's calls.

Greasing the flywheel of indie devs is generally a good way to build up your gaming platform.
> Which of these is "the compiler is allowed to assume it does not happen"?

I agree with where you're coming from, but "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results" sounds like it pretty much fits the bill. Pretending something doesn't happen sounds a lot like ignoring it completely to me.

What the standard obviously does exclude is nonsense like intentionally reformatting your drives.
I agree, but when Vox talks about "organizing" they mean ACORN.
The issue with the nuclear power is the nuclear warhead. Mankind would be perfectly fine with nuclear power but will always be at risk as long as it is weaponized. Some folks being fatally radiated does not impose risk to our kind.
I would be lying if I said the situation didn't inspire urges of vigilantism in me at the time.

The government is a very, very scary thing. Because I'm disabled, I've had many encounters with the faceless and all powerful hand of the government, sometimes it feels like they'd want a medical certificate just to allow people like me to keep breathing. But paradoxically, I believe in a fairly strong government, I think it's best to have an organization at the top which is explicitly defined to serve the need of the people, rather than whatever would rise to the top in its stead. As long as one remains aware of how terrifying the government can be and is willing to go out and throw a few bricks at government buildings. I think it's served us well, comparing my country to the rest of the word.
real / not real question

but like

when does lamenting about virtue signaling itself become virtue signaling?
Slightly odd to plug them given they didn't seem to be on top of this issue
Too big for the left hand to know what the right is doing.
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People cite this all the time as evidence that conservatives dominate the news in some way, but I don't think it means that.

I look at these statistics and it tells me conservatives have one place they go to to watch the news, while liberals either don't watch cable news and/or they split their viewership amongst several outlets.
I never said this was about a "no lusting after people, even in your heart" rule, nor do I believe it should be. If someone lusts after someone else in their head and never does anything to harm the other person there's obviously nothing wrong with that.

It's immoral because it's creating something persistent that could harm someone without their consent, amongst other things.

I also question your assertion that obsessions of this type are always harmless, because it's obvious that many are not and escalate into outright stalking, confrontations, or worse, and anything that makes that sort of obsession more likely or helps to enhance it where it exists increases the chances of that happening.
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i think estimating is one of the most important skills in maths (well, arithmetic/common sense) that is rarely taught in schools. for example, estimating the cost of your supermarket trolley, estimating how much wallpaper you will need to paper a room, etc.

now, obviously you want to get these things accurate, but the estimate tells you when you got the calculation wrong in your measurements, spreadsheet or calculator.

i was guilty of this when i over-valued my late-dad's book collection in a python program. i sort of knew it was wrong but what i didn't realise he had changed his data format halfway the dataset.
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I think search itself was always a hack for how to ask human knowledge a question. It’s a great way to find a specific page of documentation. That’s really not what people want to do 99% or the time they use google.
I guess that's what happens when you play using the same configuration for 3000 hours of playtime. Fortunately, you don't have to remap keys since it's already mapped to ctrl and c, but you would have to remap your brain.
People closer to the transmitter receive enough raw signal power that they can get away with a really insensitive antenna. Farther away, the antenna needs to be more optimal to pick up enough signal to be usable. It's not that the giant antenna is magically better, it's that the smaller antennas are mediocre.
There are a ton of people here telling you their accountants telling you otherwise, mine included.

I think it would be much more helpful if you tried avoiding stating this as objective truth, and state more like your non-accountant opinion is that's how it works.
> If you have goals, then simply being dedicated to them over a period of time essentially eliminates the influence of luck

This is the just world fallacy in a nutshell. Are you consciously saying that every parent in history who watched their children starve to death was just not dedicated and hard working enough? Perhaps didn't have 'feed my children' as a clear enough goal?
I'm not sure how true that is as a general statement. Definitely yes for digital content that used to be shipped on physical media: music, movies, software, books to some degree. Uber and Zipcar (and competitors)--along with incremental public transit and cycling infrastructure along with e-bikes--have probably made it marginally easier to get off without owning a car in some locations.

But other than that I can't think of a lot of examples.