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>GitHub’s job is to make Microsoft money

This is my concern, if the US Gov had **lls, you would force Microsoft spin Github off into a non-profit company.

Already things have been added to Github that most developers of "Open" Source do not like. Time for github to be made independent and run from a foundation like the *BSDs
Precisely. It's a bit like those ads for some charities: the charities don't care about the cost of the ads as long as it nets them a benefit, even to the point where a very high fraction of their spend is advertising, sometimes even more than they spend on their declared goal.
It's not that really interesting but it's something I use daily. I've written a sqlite3 based time tracking tool. I highly inspired by timewarrior, but I wasn't satisfied with it.

https://github.com/dgsb/tt
I've been reading your blog (https://taylor.town/) and I think ScrapScript is awesome.

Let's engage early and often. (I am looking forward to your email.)

I hope we can build and inspire people to create some futuristic software.

There's Conflict-free replicated data types, content addressable, Val Town, Nostr, scuttlebut, distributed computing, Node Package Manager, merkle trees, Rubygems, Git, ActivityPub, decentralized software, NixOS, repl.it, unison to draw inspiration from.

https://dfinity.org/ (internet computer)
https://nostr.com/
> Physical access will always be king

No. Your wording suggests that once attackers gain physical access, all is lost. It is not true. With a passphrase based full disk encryption, if the passphrase is strong and the machine is powered off, physical access doesn't imply data access.
Puberty age sounds logical.
I experienced the same, although my gluten-induced inflammation is linked to something with my gut bacteria. If I take a certain antibiotic that targets the digestive tract, I can eat anything for 9 months, including gluten, without problems. After about 9 months, I can no longer eat gluten. And then about a year after that, I can't eat corn. This has repeated 3 times, and unfortunately, I'm with a gastro doc now who won't give me the antibiotics and wants to test me for celiac (which will be the 5th time - I've always been negative).
There is also a little simplified web version of the Howard's book: https://orbital-mechanics.space/intro.html
Oh, very different then. The Wii is quite literally also used more by children.

GIMP is professional quality software, and no one will believe it because of the name.
Unfortunately it's common to have a policy in place disallowing 3rd-party app api access to drive storage. This prevents apps like rclone from working, but the drive client works because it isn't 3rd-party.
I remember my 9th grade English teacher asking us what the song Born in the USA was about. We responded with mumbly, "rah rah, America, patriotism." This was just before Nevermind came out so we didn't know we were supposed to think everything was dumb. Anyway, she gave us all a copy of the lyrics and then had us listen to the song. We were blown away...and well prepared for Grunge.
I also made something similar using Python a long time ago [1]. It's a extremely simple script so it should still work.

[1] https://github.com/DanielAllepuz/ImageToSound
> affected 836 customers

This number seems oddly low. My first instinct is not to trust that this was reported honestly. But if it is accurate, why was it so low? Perhaps there's something else very interesting about this breach they're not disclosing (not that they would provide more than the bare minimum amount of information required anyways).
In addition to picking a subject that interests people, it helps to be good at storytelling. Fortunately, that skill can also be learned
> I suspect any academic study proposing to show pornography to minors is going to get shut down pretty quickly.

I highly doubt this, because it's both important and relevant. 16y/o will consume pornography. I know I did, and I was 16 way before internet. Young adults will have had exposure before engaging in actual sex. This is important because it might be problematic. Because it changes behavior. But also because the right nudges, education and context probably make the difference between this growing into problematic behavior or healthy, normal, human behavior.

I know this is a difference between Europe and the US. Where the US (or any society under pressure of religious extremists, really) tries to simply forbid such research or knowledge. And hope (and pray) that by not knowing how this is shaping generations, it might simply go away. I'm pretty sure it won't just go away by praying hard and forbidding research. I'm pretty sure academics in this area know this very well too.
I got their „studio“ and it’s pretty decent for its price
I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on why FL seems not to have had much of an impact, either in use on its own or as a direct inspiration for later languages? (or if I'm missing things inspired by FL, what are they?)
Is it the combination of a variable-free style with a dynamically typed system that made it challenging to work with?
Consciousness? I dunno about that. Does an ant on the right drugs not hallucinate?

I agree though that it's a bad term for what current LLMs do. "Confabulate" seems closer.
I’ve been using gitea for years and I love it. I heard about gogs after migrating to gitea, but it seems like gitea is mostly an improved gogs.
Agreed, we’ve been hoodwinked by photos and video and this is the wake up call we need for everyone to realize that seeing an image of something is in no way comparable to actually being there. We’re about to enter a much more skeptical world and that’s a good thing.
I use Carlson also; from everything I've read, that is the best. I eat fatty fish a few times a week too, but I saw no harm in adding a little extra oil.
They forgot about the Sailor 1911
Gitlab has a templating system for pipelines and comes with an extensive collections of templates builtin, which they call 'Auto DevOps'. You can use the same templating engine to create building blocks for pipelines in your org, or open source them to share with the community.

However, I don't think there's a default distribution of common templates, so there's not really a marketplace. Which surprises me a bit though, it could be as simple as setting up a 'blessed' repository, mention it in the docs, add some guidelines and resources to review the merge requests.

Here's the repo for the builtin templates, if you browse them you'll quickly get feel for how they work: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/master/lib/gitla...

I liked working with templates much more than github actions, but maybe that's me.
Just to be clear that:

> but the bulk of the public support for these measures isn’t because people want government surveillance

Does not mean the majority of the public supports those measures, though perhaps those who do support those measures do so because of reasons other than explicitly wanting the government to surveil them.

I don't think you are implying that the majority of the public supports those measures but I did want to make it clear that this was still an open question.
There's a number of places out there, some of which also support alternatives to Git itself as mentioned in the article. By no means a complete list and in no particular order:

GitLab - https://about.gitlab.com/

Sourcehut - https://sourcehut.org/

Codeberg - https://codeberg.org/

Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/

Debian Salsa - https://salsa.debian.org/public

Pagure - https://pagure.io/pagure

For self hsoted options, there's these below projects, some of which power the above (and most of the above can be easily self hosted, too, it's just that this list doesn't have any hosting from the project itself):

Forgejo - https://forgejo.org/

Gitea - https://gitea.io/en-us/

Gogs - https://gogs.io/
Yes, I live on the coast, but even folks who don't live directly on a coastline can be affected negatively by failed crops and displaced people. The coast land in Guyana is currently below sea-level, and the sea level is rising further.

I've worked on a documentary about the effects of coastal erosion in Guyana, which won the 2020 Godrey Chin Heritage Journalism 1st prize.

You can see the trailer as well as the complete documentary over on https://hammyhavoc.com/audio-post-production-for-coast-land-...

Will check it out! Also got Neal Stephenson's Anathem recommended earlier. I had no idea how many people on HN read SF! :- )
I've had laptops where secure boot was permanently on unless you used legacy bios, and I've fixed several, both PCs and laptops, where there was no option to disable secure boot or use legacy bios. This was some years ago, and the situation has improved a lot since then.
Which is always a funny criticism of Github because I'd wager the people who are against ICE want the immigration system to be faster and more streamlined. I'm guessing custom software is a big part of managing encounters, asylum claims, court appearances, and of course deportations. Removing tools from that Agency would make that system worse, and therefore slower for the people the complainants seem to support (immigrants).
Yes|no
> You don't like racism and homophobia then don't visit these sites. Restricting the freedom of everone is unacceptable

Nno no no bros, not like that. (I'll show myself out.)
The most wrong part of that previous team is to store private keys unencrypted in the cloud, not the performance part.
CVS used to be the standard before Git. Arguably CVS as the standard was not better than no standard if no standard let you use decentralized version control.

But Git is pretty good, so it will take something vastly better to replace it.
some will get in, some won't. it's not going to be equitable.
Statistical fallout of unexpected words droppings.

We humans call it "misspeaking".

Speak quickly, often enough, and without sufficient training and yule misspeak.
I worked for 3 years at Ab Initio, a software company with an ETL product which is - honestly - phenomenally good and worlds above anything else in the space, open source or not. (It was designed and is still mostly developed by graybeard former Symbolics and Thinking Machines Corp. hackers.)

And I never blogged or spoke a word about it, because it's absolutely forbidden both by rule and by company culture.
The US government is interested in making sure US companies get as big as possible, why would they hamstring them?

Do you think they're out there shooting people in the Middle East so that Middle Eastern oil companies can make more money or so that the American ones can?
Really seems like the authour doesn't think much of sovereignty. Or thinks they can only have sovereignty as long they don't incovenience him. Any solutions must come only from the American side. Maybe ban dual-citizen ships, or only allow for select countries.
In IEC 60559* floating-point arithmetic, pow(-1, ∞) is 1.

This is because all large
binary and decimal floating-point numbers are even, and thus so is infinity.

*this is the successor standard to ieee-754 and shares text in recent revisions, though I don't have direct access on this phone. You can find the specific pow specification in Annex F of the C99 standard.
So they should go at the other sites, or at least have the other sites go after this repo.
It's funny, I tell people that chatgpt3.5 is like talking to someone you run into at an airport, chatgpt4 is like talking to someone you run into at a library.
Ten cheap yet great fountain pens from my experience:

- Platinum Preppy/Prefounte/Plasir ($3-$20)

- TWSBI ECO ($30-$50)

- Pilot Metro/Cavalier ($20-$50)

Cheap and OK pens (I found these better for drawing than writing):

- Lamy Safari/Al-Star ($20-$50)

- Kaweco Sport Classic ($20 -- )

'Affordable' Gold Nib pens (These aren't necessarily 'better' but writing experience is different(softer feel) which some people prefer)

- Pilot Elite 95S ($80-$100)

- Pilot Decimo/Capless ($115-$160)

All prices are from online stores available in US.
My wait was like a day, I wonder how they pick and choose? I gave pretty simple reasons in their questionnaire but somehow I can't imagine anyone reading those.
> During a recent community call, it became apparent that there is a community split

This really seems like bothsidesism. Reading the notes, Wikipedia is not nearly as split on the subject as Vice makes it appear.
Worth pointing out that Reddit voluntarily doxxed at least one of its commenters to this plaintiff — when no court order required it to do so. This Ars writeup neglects to mention this, and leaves the implication that Reddit consistently defended its users' anonymous speech in this dispute: it did not.

https://torrentfreak.com/filmmakers-request-identities-of-re...

- "However, Reddit decided to share information about “ben125125”, while protecting the other users. As shown above, “ben125125” responded to a thread about piracy warnings and specifically mentioned RCN. That wasn’t as obvious in the other comments and Reddit feels that disclosing their identities goes too far."

edit: The linked court order also mentions this (page 3, lines 6–7)
I don’t understand why you want to stop smart, hardworking people from coming here. Better way is to allow everyone who’s educated to come if they want.
Well I was thinking Functional Minimalism, but that's already not very minimalistic to have two words to define the category :)
Later this quarter Microsoft’s Azure cloud server unit plans to sell a version of ChatGPT that runs on dedicated cloud servers where the data will be kept separate from those of other customers, according to two people with knowledge of the upcoming announcement. The idea is to give customers peace of mind that their secrets won’t leak to the main ChatGPT system, the people said. But it will come at a price: The product could cost as much as 10 times what customers currently pay to use the regular version of ChatGPT, one of these people said.
They have never been perfect, but they have been effective enough that we didn't go around saying "trust no one". There is a difference between saying "don't trust everyone" and "trust no one". And I feel like we have more of the latter now than the former.
My wife is a psychotherapist, and I go to therapy, and so does she (on top of paid supervision and support).

It is the sad state of insurance and mental health coverage in the US that is driving users to these apps that have no/little proven benefit. Then the high cost of education has made it practically impossible to provide low/no cost mental health services.

My wife's internship was at a place where she had 8+ sessions per day, they had a dozen or so unpaid interns still in school (usually second year of masters program) providing mental health services for low-income medicaid patients. And that leads to very quick burn out, and doesn't compensate fairly (or at all, actually) while accruing massive amounts of student debt.

There are federal programs that if you make it 10 years in community mental health paying your student loans at a lower rate, your loans are discharged, but it takes a very special person to survive 40+ hours per week of sessions, taking in and holding other people's mental health, and then add another 10+ hours of notes/insurance/treatment plans.
Look into decentralized approaches like Mango and Radicle.
The key indeed is that they can be considered medical devices, and medical devices are a regulated class of devices (depending on where you live these can have all kinds of compliance requirements imposed on them). Compliance is expensive, difficult and tends to constrain what you can do with your data. So companies that want to side-step compliance will work hard to avoid being labeled a medical device. Whether your insurance covers the costs or not is yet another aspect, typically if your insurance company isn't going to reimburse you for an app that is classed as a medical device they definitely aren't going to reimburse you for other kinds of apps that are not approved.

Note that not all software only applications in the medical domain are immediately considered medical devices, the line is a pretty fine one. If you plan on putting out an app that has medical implications you should research this properly to avoid running afoul of the regulators (which isn't a very good way to start your relationship).
Do you think porn has been good for society?
Uniform Thought Machines – More than algorithms, but the past hints at solutions
The Aware Reasoning Project main task is the creation of agents based on LLM to perform a goal using tools, memory, task decomposition and analysis. In this first video the author gives an example of the alpha version of this project. The main insight is that the communication among the agents shows the progress towards the goal. In subsequent videos the optimized use of resources will be shown and how the system is able to continue developing the infrastructure that allow it to attack the main goal in such a way that each agents has a clear function in the system and the information gathered is well propagated through the network of agents, directors and managers. Special care is dedicated to design sub-goals so that their results can be checked easily and when it is possible modified so to align with the main goal.
a nice and clean site!
assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions:
- if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove some concern...
- as the name implied, if you could provide a terminal cli, that will be a plus too..
my 2c...
I have always thought there should be a floor on salary that put these positions in the top 10%, plus a requirement that they fund a scholarship or training program in the same amount as the salary.

With the 2 H1Bs that I have hired, it would still have been worth it and anything less is just a program to artificially reduce costs for companies.
Pretty much. Controlling how those products are sold is better than outright banning them.
It's an absolutely horrible idea. It only makes sense if maybe there's serious neglect by the parents, knowingly allowing it to continue. But probably that level of neglect is already illegal somehow anyway.

I mean, when I was a teenager I already knew how to program and my mother was completely tech illiterate. So how the hell was she supposed to control what a chronically horny teenage boy was getting up to on the internet?
The response is to integrate even more chatgpt features in with a personal study assistant called cheggmate.
Tom has a pretty good day job, so I suspect that money isn't the thing.

The sigbovik conference seems to be the motivating goal behind these videos. I think the key thing would be to make sure that sigbovik continues and that people are excited about the papers.
Hard to say if this is objective or not, but here goes…

I find that I write faster with a good, reliable fountain pen (like a Sailor) than I do with a ballpoint, gel, rollerball, or anything else I’ve tried. It’s my go-to for fast note taking.

On the other hand, there are a lot of cool and fancy fountain pens that are net slower to write with due to unreliability.
Oh goodie. I'm still dealing with identity theft from T-Mobile's earlier breach.
It does make sense in the context of what has been happening with low skill immigration from the south of the border. Punish the workers being abused and let companies doing that off the hook.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/09/workplace...
For a article on classic pens I miss something from Kaweco or Lamy as entry level, for example, or some of the classic pens from japanese brands like Pilot or Sailor.
I want to know if there are more decimal numbers between 0 and 1 than there are integers between 0 and infinity.
I am a naturalized US citizen and I know how painful this whole thing is for immigrants. However, H1B visa has outlived its purpose and was designed in early 1990s which doesn't apply today. THe fraud happens because of how the system is designed which encourages fraudsters.

We should abolish H1B visa and add a merit based system (like other countries) where you need to be highly skilled, educated etc to gain entry to the US to work legally and are free to work for any employer and get Green Card in say 3 years after working successfully, paying taxes and becoming a good citizen overall without being convicted of a crime. They should get a min. salary that is over market for the area and adjusted for inflation every year so that they cannot be low balled just to come to the country. For example, if you find an employer in Bay Area, you should get Bay Area salary and not Idaho.

This would not interfere with American citizens who think they are being replaced with cheaper workers because it will encourage competition and no issue with cheaper salaries. Win Win.
Take two seconds to think about what happens when a president you don't like starts using this power. Trump: "The Supreme Court made the wrong decision in denying my vote fraud lawsuit. It's unconstitutional to allow voter fraud to determine an election. Therefore I'm declaring myself President for a second term."
In my experience with children, one of the easiest-to-grasp concepts of infinity is provided by the transfinite ordinals, since it can be viewed as a continuation of the usual counting manner of children, but proceeding into the transfinite:
1,2,3,⋯,ω,ω+1,ω+2,⋯,ω+ω=ω⋅2,ω⋅2+1,⋯,ω⋅3,⋯,ω2,ω2+1,⋯,ω2+ω,⋯⋯

Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds? This explanation is horrendous haha
> Speaking of median, the median adult does not support QAnon or flat earthers.

But he does not support the global climate change and atheism as well. The examples you have picked are so obvious as phlogiston theory or anti-relativist movement. Actually most people are stupid, the best example right now is what TV can make to Russian people.
Was i shoving it into everyones face unwarranted or was i answering remram's question?
I hear you, but Apple sells today a laptop with 54 gpu/neural-network cores.

For a workstation, which this seems to target - doesn’t seem particular a lot to have ~2x that
Your info probably has been leaked already, so it’s out there, won’t matter if it leaks again lol
I am extremely happy that this country allows people from around the world to come here and try to have a better life. It’s heartless that you’re against that and insulting that you think the rest of the country is too. Educated labor is what makes this country the innovation capital of the world.
No,I don't think so. There are times when you ask a question, and the person will condescend, in the positive sense, and speak at a level below you. I prefer to ask when I am teaching where I should start. I'll explain very quickly the basics, if they're familiar, I'll jump the next level. Until I reach the depth of their understanding, I will skip over foundational concepts.
It’s most definitely Cognitive Behavioral Therapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
Cloud Exit Pays Off in Performance Too
> I imagine teenage drinking is much easier these days thanks to the above

When I was in (secondary) school in the UK, we could get served beer in the pub at lunchtime while wearing school uniform! Doesn't get much easier than that!
I have a Cross fountain pen, not sure what the model is, I'm not even sure how great it is or isn't.

However I have had it at least since high school and that is over 30 years ago...

Only have changed the nib and it still writes great.
Money market interest income is taxed as income. So replying to the commenter to use money market accounts over savings, there isn’t a big difference. People go with what’s easiest and convenient when rates aren’t significantly different.