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This is excellent bait, and I'll take it.

You (hopefully) know as well as I do that twerking with Megan Thee Stallion is more of a "yas queen" than a "does this please you, viewer?"

The thing that takes an ostensibly (lol) enticing sexual act and turns it into an "ewwww" is when it's wrapped up in a big box emblazoned with the letters "POLITICAL POWER PLAY." Oh yes please, that's exactly what I want, serve me some tits and ass with a side of "why are you threatened by strong women?"

I like a hate-fuck as much as the next guy, but I'm kind of tired of being hatefucked by the media industry. To call this stuff propaganda is an insult to propaganda. At least propaganda has to be smart. This is just the writers and artists' daddy issues on full display. We all know it, and this hatred of the simple straight male has infected everything.
My wife and I are performing magicians and there is a surprising amount of overlap in the history of the two performance arts.

Wrestling came from circus and sideshow. Stage magic has also had a large presence there, historically. Both art forms have a history of keeping their "methods" secret.

It reminds me of the first Borat movie, where Sascha Baron Cohen - at the time relatively unknown outside of the UK - stayed in character during the promotion of the movie. People didn't know if this character was for real or if it was an actor playing a part. It was part of the "art" (I know it sounds weird to call Borat "art", I don't want to get into a pedantic argument about definitions ... let's just say that magic, film, pro wrestling ... all theatre).

Ethically, it's an interesting grey area and I think that each has different reasons for being protective of what going on behind the scenes. Every magician has learned the hard way that audiences usually react to finding out how a trick is done with disappointment and that's the real reason that methods are kept guarded. The line for me is that I will never pretend that what I am doing when in character is anything other than parlour tricks and illusions.

I think that pro wrestling and Kayfabe are similar. For a long time pro wrestling did want to protect the illusion. These days they are much more open about it being scripted and predetermined and, like magic, anyone that wants to learn how some of it is done can find out very easily online. But I think that they still don't want to advertise the techniques because, in their belief, it would ruin the suspension of disbelief.

Magic is actually the UNWILLING suspension of disbelief. Even if a trick is not framed as an intellectual puzzle, it takes an intelligent audience to experience the illusion. The person watching must have a clear understanding of what is possible vs what is not, and the magician needs to understand every possible explanation that might run through a typical rational human mind and work to preemptively disprove those explanations. It's a fun implied intellectual challenge.

I can find pro wrestling to be entertaining but I'm not a super-fan and so I don't know if the "unwilling suspension of disbelief" enters into the picture with Kayfabe at all .. but I can see how it can. If we were under the assumption that every move and stunt were without any risk then would it still be AS entertaining? The "moves" in pro wrestling do not eliminate risk but they definitely work to reduce it. And understanding the mechanics, like in magic, has the potential to break the illusion.
I think you should read a little of what burnout actually is instead of supplement pseudoscience
At the risk of hijacking this discussion, i feel like the BEAM needs a TypeScript/C#/Java like language much more urgently. Whenever I go from our Elixir backend to our TypeScript frontend I experience a sigh of relief because my editor tells me instantly whether what I type makes sense and why not.
My family is basically all-in on Apple gear, but to be honest, the little Lenovo Chromebook that I bought for $300, with keyboard case and pen, is amazingly versatile. The Linux container support is OK for running Emacs and some dev tools. I do a lot of dev using mosh/ssh on external servers, BTW.

There are only two things that prevent me from going cheap: poor video performance when I plug it into my large USB-C external monitor; and, my addiction to the Apple Watch that is a device that makes me rethink how I expect technology to fit into my lifestyle.
I was kind of disappointed when no one noticed this (and the associated illustration) in our blog about Super Bowl LVII trends: "While the so-called NFL cities across the country are loyal to their local teams, looking at traffic trends across cities from both conferences makes it clear that fans everywhere find joy, not division, in the unknown pleasures of a good halftime show."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/super-bowl-lvii/
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The problem with socialism is that there are certain jobs people do only for money. For example, no one becomes a dentist because they are passionate about teeth. However, it makes sense to have a floor on earnings in the form of a UBI. I think that would be the best of both worlds.
And about the other half is for chrome, and the rest is for all other browsers or what?
But that's moving the goalposts, Europe has a bunch of countries with small populations, Sweden is 16th in population from 40+ countries. Aside from Germany, Italy, the UK, France, Spain and Poland all the other countries will hover +- ~10 million people compared to Sweden. It's smack in the median of population size in Europe.
By demanding, you mean requesting?
Why don't you want random traffic to go through the VPN? Mullvad is quite fast.
Microsoft's issue is that they _can't_ stop OEMs from doing it, or they'll run afoul of antitrust legislation. The Epic v. Google suit (which isn't going well for Google) is based on the argument that Google, as the OS creator, can't impose limits on the software OEMs ship on top of that OS.
A pretty low bar.

Then again the intended audience is the average movie goer, so the level of analysis is adequate.
It’s ironic that the people who hate dealing with Safari are, though they would never admit it, actually complaining because they resent having to test in more than one browser.

Let’s just throw in the towel now and rename the web to the Chrome Platform.
Because they have almost nothing else to differentiate prices on for the various models.
Hmm. To me it seems like you maybe didn't get out of the new character instance. That thing is basically a 20-30 minute (depending on race) racial story instance.

Those tend to have linear progression most of the time, and I think you maybe mistook the instance's progression objectives as quests. Once you get out of that, it's an open world and you can do what you want, though.

I think it's worth giving it another try, it's a great game.
It's pretty funny that most people that hate AI art and want it banned because of copyright violations, don't understand that the only difference that will make is that instead of having open models, you will only have closed models owned by Adobe who will license all the imagery from Getty, Disney, etc.

AI art isn't going away, and it better be open instead of in full control of just 2 or 3 companies.
Claims to know*
It's been a while, but the most rewarding experience I had in this space was engaging directly with a small local charity. I just pitched them the idea of me getting 10 minutes with every worker that had to use a PC as part of what the charity did. I used the time to interview them, and try to identify something that affected the largest swath of workers.

As it turned out, what I helped them with wasn't code, but a bit of configuration and tuning, but they said it honestly created about a hour of time back per day for most of the workers. There was part of a flow that would often grind a long time and/or error out. Making that fast and reliable was the best low-effort thing I could deliver.
Same with large stretches of Highway 50 in California - which is exactly where you need the weather alerts most, due to snow. No cell signal.
Allowing inbounds call from numbers with a recent outbound call sounds like a low-hanging fruit heuristic.
Russia and China suck, but it's still better that only a few countries have nukes instead of millions of people having 1 each :) If everybody had nukes we'd stop living in big cities :)
Shouldn't it be decided on an image-by-image basis? If the resulting image doesn't infringe copyright, what's the relevance of how it was made? That's how it's worked up until this point.

I mean, maybe because the impact is so severe we should HAVE new laws affording more protections to artists, but that's a different argument right?
Thank you Mr. Dr. Helmut Kohl!
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My city has a nonprofit called Code for Good [1] that is specifically focused on getting the tech & design community together to help other local nonprofits. I've volunteered with them countless times and the events are always super impactful. Maybe you've got something similar locally?

It also might be worth developing a program yourself if you're passionate enough about it. There are a few dev shops in my city that run their own charity projects every year where they invite nonprofits to submit proposals for the work they need done, and then the shop picks a few projects to work on for free. Those seem to be super popular as well.

[1] https://codeforgoodwm.org
> the state of a person's brain is outside of copyright

It clearly isn’t. Which is why clean-room reverse engineering always requires at least two people. Or why a musician that accidentally recreates a chord progression they heard years ago but don't remember the source might still get sued.
Hm it sounds like what you are saying is that power is a more reliable way to get money, but money is still ultimately the goal?
There is another great story by Lem called Golem XIV about an AI, constructed by the US Military. It is tasked with destroying enemies of the US, to which it says something to the effect of "Why? That makes no sense" and proceeds to give a philosophical lecture, then sort of disappears. Lem was really good at breaking down common scifi tropes and presenting them from a point of view it hasn't been considered, sometimes surprisingly obvious.
That is not the point...It's the fact his supposed valuable research, ( he is getting published after all!) is of so flimsy quality, that a LLM model can be a productivity improvement! That is the reason of the WTF.

Do you think Tesla or Einstein with a LLM model, would spit out 5 new discoveries per week instead of one every decade?
Why couldn't they? If their findings support this theory then they must come forward and say so.
> Are there any other examples of common things that have non obvious behaviour from every day experience?

How about the chain fountain (also from Steve Mould): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dQJBBklpQQ
You've clearly never sat on a couch with a Mac on your lap.
The main problem is that GitHub is becoming unreliable like the rest of the MS software (lead by Azure).

Everything else is just business.

At the same time I don't think it's smart to abandon GitHub for networking / CV reasons.

Once I'll be rich enough, I'll delete my account and use a self hosted git server.
There are two types of people:

1. People afraid AI will take their jobs

2. People using AI to take people's jobs
Their base models are usually vaguely reasonably priced. But they charge a huge markup for RAM/disk upgrades.
If the third party security audits aren’t convincing, then you shouldn’t. That’s your choice to make.
Well, there's something about either XFS, Linux 6.2, or the sqlite libraries on Ubuntu 23.04 because on my machine it's hitting 300 flushes per second while doing about 1300 writes / 13MB per second.
And it seems that all of those large emerging economies have one thing in common - they would love weaker USA.
For the curious Americans, Sweden has about the population of Michigan.
I reckon this analysis would benefit from absolute figures. A drop in market share doesn't necessarily mean less users if said market is experiencing a massive growth.
And Mozilla's partner for the Mozilla VPN.
Ouch! But yes I suppose you're right that it comes across more as virtue signaling.
Unless we expect a grassroots AI luddite movement, this is hair splitting.
This reminds me of "all models are wrong, but some models are useful." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)

Outside of formal math, all we have are models, so there will often (always?) be an ordering of "less wrong" on model-based knowledge.

So "wronger than wrong" is putting a heavy spin on the truth. More wrong models might still be useful.
Randomness Improves Algorithms
Yea I agree, AI isn't going away.

It'll be like how many financial instruments are banned to retail consumers, but are used by the rich and powerful to become more rich and powerful.

AI isn't going away, we need open models that everyone can use.
I for one can't wait for more contentless boilerplate to appear in every email, pull request, "customer service" conversation, etc
I want to hear their story. I still won't read cover letters, because those aren't that.
> Release schedules &c. aside, they have no argument if they're complaining about the Safari team's "communication".

You can't put that aside, because it's the entire point!

"The bug is fixed in the git repository, but we refuse to tell you if or when the fix will appear in Safari" is communication, but it's not the kind of communication needed for web developers.

> The diligence from the Safari team in responding to those bug reports is not something I've seen from other browsers vendors.

I have to disagree there.
There's no reason that the upper layer isn't cheating. Very much like we do in video games where we use approximations or even better work backward from a result and (re)write history. Even all our memories could be altered to make us believe any history or facts as desired. There's too much freedom to be able make strong conclusions.
Why not both?

(Also I think Apple have a long term issue that the MacOS software story is very, very bad and getting worse and now the sheer performance hype of the M chips has worn off customers might actually look at things like "this is literally no use whatsoever for gaming" and get put off by it.)
play hype games, get hype prizes
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I tend to avoid fast food in general, but I try not to orient my life around actions (or avoiding actions) that are unlikely to have any impact, especially if they involve spending more of my own energy.

Avoiding Chik-Fil-A at all costs: primarily affects me.

Being willing to frequent a Chik-Fil-A because a friend somewhere else on the political spectrum enjoys it: potentially opens an opportunity to talk.

Most of my family and their circles fit that latter description, so this is not a hypothetical. Any chance of influencing them is actively harmed by choosing/avoiding fast food based on tribal allegiance.

None of this should be construed to mean that I find their leadership team and public stances acceptable.
Not really in my experience as a primary Firefox dev.

It's easy enough to not use stuff like web USB, and in my experience chrome and firefox "get along" while a page (doing more advanced things) not built for safari simply will not work in safari.

The problem with safari is that Apple makes it so you have to use it if you want your site to work on it. Chrome, I can safely ignore.

I also literally can't use safari if I don't have a Mac.
That would explain the drop in linux numbers allright. They only do pirated Windows in China.
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Steam Survey is never very reliable. They often have weird OS/Hardware stats, like GPU model etc.

This specific issue, "the dramatic change of Chinese user" also has happened multiple times in recent years.

I just had a glance at this newest report, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

In the very first item, it shows "Windows 11 64 bit 22.41% (change: -9.65%)"

This obviously doesn't make any sense. It either suffers from small sample size, or a skewed one.

My guess is Valve probably failed to deliver the surveys to players in an uniform, representative fashion.

Either way, don't take it seriously.
Seconded. Fast games specially benefit from >60Hz refresh rates. My wife has a 300Hz laptop and playing OW2 on it is amazing, I can track shots better and I can do quick flick shots better than on a 60Hz monitor.
FWIW, the German language wiki page has lots more detail and, at least for me, the browser translated it to English fairly well.
Well of course it can be solved. My point is that it's not just a matter of rendering a bunch of transposed plots.
Ugly? It looks exactly like the previous gen.
Humans regurgitate other people's work all the time, and these image generators are well capable of creating non-infringing images. How is AI regurgitating other people's work any different?

Basically there needs to be a copyright-court-like oracle used in training, so as to suppress output that's quoting the sources to much.
I'm happy we have other people who can do to this for us too. But I don't think a stranger will take better care of a another stranger than a loving caring family member. E.g. With all my imperfections I'm still sure I'm a better caregiver for my children than an orphanage where they would be just a number, even though they are better educated about children health and development.
What GP means (I imagine, anyway) is that your post has a whole bunch of words in it without really saying what you think. Because you haven't really staked out an opinion, after throwing up some serious-sounding phrases, the whole thing comes off as vaguely "both sides-y" and thus not very helpful?

I was confused about your post, too. What did you mean?
The platform is still largely the same though. Fancy Abrams tanks are of 1970s designs with modern modifications.

T-72s and such are also kept updated with modern gizmos like reactive defense, etc.
Yeah, what? Millions will do the same, and thousands are already doing it...
How does that compare to movies? They are really actors and only a handful get the big paydays.
well, GitHub isn't as "raw" as it used to be, that's for sure. It's much more user friendly now, much easier to make a single click and do what you need, like "copy to clipboard" or "download (a single file from a repo)" and so on.

as things get easier to use, the coolness factor definitely goes down, and the pride you get from learning the tool goes down, because as things get easier to learn, the less special any given person is for learning that tool. There are software packages which intentionally remain complex to keep this feeling, and it's considered bad.

From personal experience, if you want GitHub to feel like magic again, host an enterprise server instance on AWS and have over 10k active users. You will feel the complexity in your soul as you work out ways to monitor that thing effectively and react to problems before the symptoms get noticed by your extremely demanding users.

I realize that very few people can do this, as GitHub Enterprise licenses are expensive, but hoo boy GitHub has not lost its magic for me.
Yes. And then you probably don't do business in or with a foreign country. The point is that you should know and likely do know, for example, what Qatar thinks about minority rights when you award them a World Cup.
The state of the business being…perpetually unprofitable with no plans to change that? That seems functional.
I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.
> That being said, nothing is stopping Getty images, for example, from releasing their own image generator, trained from images they own copyright to.

which is fine, if it's theirs they're free to do what they want with it

however I didn't give Microsoft permission to sell people code derived from my works without attribution
Thanks for doing the research, this is much appreciated.
Maybe unrelated, by 3 mentions of Joy Division on the front page of Hackernews at the same time ? What gives ?
Or perhaps there's an issue with truthfulness coming from Russian sources that makes them an unreliable source for proper journalistic reporting?

You aren't making your point clearer, you are just repeating "wake up, sheeple" with a different word salad...
Which came first, copyright or the printing press? Was the printing press banned because of copyright?

But yes, the claim about an artist owning an entire style sounds pretty off to me. There's no way Picasso has a copyright claim on every cubist painting ever made, nor does Van Gogh own every painting containing a sunflower.
SW dev stuff tends to take a lot more RAM than consumer/productivity apps though. I would want at least 16 and ideally 32 for software dev. But for general usage I think that would drop to at least 8 ideally 16.
Some people use Macs for work. I guess you can think of it as a long-ish investment and get it on finance, but considering how quickly hardware becomes outdated in some industries where Macs are are either a technical or social must-have, the prices do seem absurd...
Yea, people are confusing what comes in windows by default with what is added by the OEM as most of them have never installed a fresh copy of windows.
It's not that the glacial pace is a feature of old films. It's a feature of Tarkovsky's movies and even today some directors use similar techniques.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis has a much faster pace and it's a scifi movie from 1927.
Tech companies could do like parts of legal apparently and try a "standard office" [0, 1] approach.

It would be harder to have the bodies per square foot as compared with a "crammed industrial shop floor" in such buildings, and some would miss it, so do half and half.

I predict that half of people would prefer a slightly more private 200 square foot quasi-soundproof cube with walls and at least one glass wall with a door, and half of people would actually prefer the "crammed industrial shop floor".

Of the cubers, I further predict that a half of cubers would prefer to "hotel" in their quasi-soundproof cube (take and leave nothing), while the half of cubers would prefer to "settle into" their quasi-soundproof cube.

Total flexibility, of course. Mark the cube as hotel/settled. Move freely in and out of the "crammed industrial shop floor" as social/collaborative needs require.

[0] 2019, https://www.anitainsights.com/blog/how-big-are-attorney-offi...

[1] 2016, https://www.chicagolawyermagazine.com/elements/pages/print.a...
Just compare the comments on any AI art story with the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35418760
|Amazing, but very basic.

After playing around with ChatGPT for a few hours I have a hard time seeing how someone could objectively call it "basic".
It is so on macOS. In fact, macOS updates now ship in lockstep with iOS releases.

This is because they all share code, and more importantly, security vulnerability fixes.

You might be referring to how Safari is updated independently of macOS on the 2 non-latest versions of macOS. But those are still released simultaneously with the OS updates, and Safari on the latest version of macOS is bundled with the OS update.