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> long space flight…Beethoven’s late string quartets

If memory serves me correctly, the fifth movement of the Op.130 _is_ on a long space flight.
I enjoy using bash, and throw together little scripts now and then. It is convenient to be able to wrap up some bash commands and turn them into a script, when I realize I’ve been using them repeatedly.

But, every time I see examples of how to write sh scripts properly, it makes me wonder if this is just the wrong way to look at the world. Maybe it would be easier to extend Python down to make it better for command line use. Xonsh or something.
> Whistleblowers don’t run to Moscow.

They do when most other countries will extradite them back to the US, where they'll be tossed into a dark cell for the rest of their life.

Snowden did his part. He released the information he had. Assuming we believe the information he released is genuine, it's utterly irrelevant what we think of him now, or what he has to do to survive and remain at least somewhat free.

> Snowden is a traitor.

Pedant hat on: Snowden can never legally be tried as a traitor, as he has not committed treason. The US Constitution very precisely describes treason, and he did not do that. If Snowden were ever arrested and returned to US custody, I imagine the main charges would revolve around espionage and conspiracy.
I still remember Mojang's promise to open source Minecraft.

Instead, he sold it to Microsoft. /o\
This doesn't make sense to me on the most basic level. All the services mentioned in the article cost money, so somebody has to keep paying them -- and if they're being paid for by the company's revenue, out of its bank account, then the company certainly isn't dissolved. It's actually very, very efficiently automated (I think that level of automation, ~100%, is unachievable for a business like this, but that's by the by).

Really, this is a very fascinating article. At first sight it holds up and makes surface-level sense, but the moment you start scratching the surface, you see there's no substance and the article's premises and ideas correspond in no way to reality. Just like a lot of GPT output, in other words.
The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
So it's only ok for people who have some other skill or qualification they could instead choose to use for similar pay?
FluidX3D: Fast, memory efficient lattice Boltzmann CFD software /w OpenCL
Amusingly they probably went with ‘test’ over ‘craft’ to avoid sabre-rattling from Blizzard. I think Freecraft was taken down at around that time?
FWIU coc.vim works with vim and nvim and works with VSCode LSP support: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

There are many LSP implementations:
https://langserver.org/

awesome-neovim Ctrl-F "DAP":
https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim#lsp

mason.nvim: https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim :

> Portable package manager for Neovim that runs everywhere Neovim runs. Easily install and manage LSP servers, DAP servers, linters, and formatters.

conda-forge

DAP: Debug Adapter Protocol https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement...
> How do you actually plan and optimize the trajectory of a rocket?

You're looking into Control Theory and specifically the field of Optimal Control.

If you have some college Math {1,2}XX literacy, I remember

Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction by Donald E. Kirk

https://www.amazon.com/Optimal-Control-Theory-Introduction-E...

having some chapter or two dedicated to trajectory optimization. Although it's not an easy reading by any means, it greatly serves its purpose as the title states; an adequate optimal control introductory. You really want a good grasp of optimal control's fundamentals before you go into trajectory/path optimization so it's advised you start from the very beginning.

However in case you want an alternative to the book and wonder what trajectory optimization is about here's the relevant chapter of MIT's Underactuated Robotics course

https://underactuated.mit.edu/trajopt.html

whose parts are also good alternatives to the Kirk book.
No way and no matter how friendly and supportive you think coworkers are. Only if accommodations are required.
Don't have kids if your primary goal is avoiding loneliness. Decide if you truly want them and try babysitting kids of a few different ages first. It's a huge commitment, and not one that should be decided for selfish reasons
Strange how with all modern advancements and crazy resolution cameras those movies still look stunning and incredibly beautiful.

No RED or similar camera had came close to this.
Wait a minute: what if leeching was actually a legitimate treatment to remove blood toxins, maybe like mercury or lead poisoning?

By the way, looks like donation removes 8% of your blood, so you’d have to donate 9 times to halve the amount of any chemical in your blood (assuming it’s not also stored elsewhere in your body).
You certainly do not have the rights or access needed to repair bugs in current software like Microsoft Office or obsolete software like the original WordPerfect. Copyright law blocks those rights and Microsoft/etc block access to the source code and information about compilers etc. Also the DMCA allows companies to technically block access to updating software on devices.
Yeah by the way they're going to do a biopic of Frederick Douglass, and the actor portraying him is going to be Colin Farrell.. how do you feel about that?
I don’t see why people are so worried about AI in the future. AI has been exploiting humans for 500 years already, and destroying Earth’s habitability for the last 150 years.

I’m talking about our first AIs, the corporations. They maximize their goals at any cost, live forever, assimilate other corporations, and frequently trick humans to engage in unsafe behavior for their own benefit. They expand to control more and more territory, concentrate power to themselves, and seek to make humans dependent on them — while at the same time polluting everywhere to make the human race weaker. They don’t intend this, they just have an alien code of ethics that worships shareholder value as the height of virtue.

How is computer AI going to be worse than what we’re already doing?
My phone company sent a bunch of call center jobs to the Philippines… it’s not really a talking point or anti-union to say that businesses will at least consider alternatives.
Yes, that’s the subtitle, and the discussion in the text, to the extent it addresses the subtitle at all (its actually a lot more about how the problem has been contributed to by the US and its Arab Partners than it is about the subtitle), what it suggests needs to be done isn’t, implicitly or explicitly, “conduct a US-led intervention”.

You are aware that the US (alone and through partners) does thing around the world aside from direct armed intervention, so that a subtitle about what the US should do with regard to a situation does not, inherently, imply direct intervention.
No. It’s no business of theirs as long as you don’t need short term or long term disability
Well then the solution is to mandate a hood that cleans the said toxic gas/es out. And if we were being serious at all; there is always a habitability clause in the rental agreements which can be used to mandate the hoods where gas ranges exists. No new laws/regulations needed.

But those would be too good of solutions and spoil the current sneaky plan. Too many goal posts are shifting for justifying a performative-feel-good-climate fight (the point the top-level comment is trying to make).

There is no pure free-market anywhere (and it's a good thing). Let's not justify govt overreach in the garb of imperfect market-capitalism.
Closely related: “alternative reconstruction”
Wait until they find out that Prince Harry is not genetically related to King Charles
email works on localhost if you don’t want to email anybody
But I am not taking a position that govt bans the other side's fav style, am I now?
There’s already a long list of petrochemical byproducts that are regulated.

Sure, it’s not perfect, but nothing is.
Code repetition is only cheap if you abandon and forget about the repeated code. Any time you need to have to care about the code to fix bugs, security issues or improve performance, it is expensive do each of those things once, repeating them multiple times can mean an order of magnitude difference in the worse case.
> *nix

"*nux", you mean.
> Punishment: a fine of one pound, ten shillings, and four pence

Why those weird numbers and not just round it to "four pounds"?
> I am 99% sure Snowden is cringing at the term "American patriots".

Perhaps for the current perverse use of the term "patriot", which to many Americans seems to boil down to "yes-man for the state". But in its purest form, I do believe Snowden to be a patriot, even if he'd object to the term.
Well, if it's profitable, someone will want to claim it. If it's not, then it will get shutdown due to some unpaid bills. (Compute, electricity, connectivity, etc.)

Maybe possible if it's running as a truly decentralized algorithm running on blockchain with profits sustaining itself. (Not currently possible as far as I am aware.)
For $2.5 billion I would absolutely renege on a promise to open source my code. Every time.
we do not actually know

Don't we? Maybe someone with more architectural knowledge of LLM systems can fill in the gaps in my knowledge, but where's the feedback loop that would allow actual self-awareness to develop? FAFAIK, LLM's are feed-forward networks. There are neither small cycles spanning a few nodes, nor integral cycles allowing the model to see what it's outputting -- the only feedback it gets is through the training process, which does not act as a mirror.

I struggle to see how self-awareness would ever manifest from a system that cannot experience its own output.
The new generation of Buenos Aires trash pickers reenergizing recycling
I looked it up, they are actually groundless in this case: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13363#issuecomme...
I'm well aware of the research that led to it. I was already working in the field back then and I remember that the community was far from realizing how monumental this paper would end up being. Otherwise the authors probably would have considered a more informative or at least less ambiguous title. It also didn't help that the architecture they described (encoder-decoder) was actually even more complicated than what we have now in GPT and the likes. And the really important thing was not that it could train more epochs than recurrent architectures (although that certainly helped the huge models that came later), but it could drastically extend context length for sequence tasks. They went from a theoretically infinite (but in practice very limited) context length to a fundamentally limited but practically obtainable one.
I started coding when I was 6 years old on Commodore 64.
In Australia the supermarkets use cameras pointed at the scanner and AI to visually match items. When you scan a steak as bananas, it notices something isn't right, puts an image of the item you weighed, and the item you selected on screen and flags a staff member to verify it.

As a nice bonus, when you open the selection menu, it has the item you want shown up front so you don't have to search for it most of the time.
> Question One: why does digital technology feel so revolutionary?

The digital revolution, which began some 30 years hence, has little to do with the more recent advancements in AI/ML. The reason digital technology feels so revolutionary is because it is - it's our first glimpse into a post-scarcity future. Distribution costs for a digital work to all of humanity is low, and approaches zero if we get rid of copyright.

Copyright is an antiquated system, suitable only for a pre-digital age. We need a better system. One that incentivizes the creation of works while also admitting that DRM to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. If instead every copy that was distributed over the Internet, including via Bittorrent paid the author back, suddenly it's not a problem anymore. There are other problems/details to be worked out, but the first step is in admitting you have a problem.
https://twitter.com/search?q=cool%20from%3Aelonmusk&src=type...
I've had my Steam Deck for a year, and what I've done since I got it is simply install the RetroArch flatpak (via the Discover app), and use that as a front end for all my emulation.

It doesn't add emulated games to the menu, but frankly, I think I prefer it that way, and I don't have to worry about things contaminating future SteamOS updates - everything is silo'd away.

It works great, I recommend it.
For me not so much. Maybe I'm just that detached from the modern art world to find it wholly alien. I can't quite tell if the author has a point or if they are just curating some trends for us to think on. Maybe the lack of direct point is the point?
Aviation safety for FAA airworthiness generally follows SAE ARP4761, which requires risks of Catastrophic severity to have a quantitative failure rate of 10^-9 incidents per hour or less. The Air Force follows MIL-STD 882E, which generally requires risks of Catastrophic severity to have a quantitative failure rate of 10^-6 incidents per hour or less. In short, the military accepts more risk than commercial aviation. That being said, military aircraft usually are also rated to ARP4761 levels of safety so they can fly in US airspace.
The instructions that took advantage of FPM DRAM already existed in ARM1, only the implementation was different. And exactly these instructions (that essentially do the RISC/SPARC-like register window shift as an explicit operation) are the reason why ARM should be ACM, as in Acorn CISC Machine.
As a mostly volunteer based distro, Debian definitely can't keep up with everything, but Ubuntu inherits the majority of their package versions directly from Debian unstable. For more core things like GNOME they can be more up to date, but they also employ people to do that work directly in Debian instead of in Ubuntu. They are also heavily moving towards dropping apt and adopting snap packages, which means faster updates because each snap package is a self-contained filesystem unconnected to the rest of the distro.
Lots of people use landscaping services

Most services want you on a weekly schedule because they make more money. Close-cut lawns are thirstier.

It can take effort to find services that will only come twice a month but they are out there.

Lawns aren't just ornamental for many...if you are on septic, the lawn is helping to recycle septic discharge, and trees would root too deep and break the lines.
Actually, I'd like better cell coverage around the places I live, but it's gamemanship between Verizon and AT&T that is the main reason it's poor in places I care about.

Out in the desert or up in the mountains, I want to unplug, so no I'm not asking for satellites. I understand some are.
Brian Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook, then helped found and fund the Signal Foundation. It's not mutually exclusive.
You've been watching too many Terry Davis videos
Fwiw, Safari doesn't auto-update beyond a certain point if you are not running the latest OS version from Apple, which may be for several good reasons, but your hardware being unable to run it is surely the top reason.

And neither Firefox nor Chrome self-updated beyond a certain point on my few years old Android tablet, which is still generally very usable for browsing and YouTube.

And the browser on one of my phones stopped updating, once the OS stopped getting upgrades, for about 2 years before I stopped using that phone (because there was nothing as good as it to upgrade to).

Non-latest browsers are a small percentage of users, but it's a myth some site designers believe that all Chrome, Firefox and Safari installs auto-update to latest versions except where the user decided for themselves to block updates.

To the owner of devices in generally great shape, that work fine with alnost all sites, sites designed with the bleeding-edge assunption can feel a bit "unnecessarily buy a new version of the exact same electronics with your copious spare cash and litter some e-waste landfill to view our content today!".

Site designer's choice of course.

But it's a myth that the current mainstrean browsers stay up to date by default for everyone who doesn't disable it. Some users can't update. This should particularly be in the awareness of designers wanting sites to be readable by people without much disposable income, or some accessibility issues.
not in my experience.
const (the only playable anarchy server) is as vile and wild as ever and nobody got banned AFAICT.
2b was hot trash for a long time now and it mostly serves to fuel hauses raging coke addiction
Yes, EVA works out of the box on an AWS server with GPU [1].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/nvidia/
Developing IN-Demand Skills and Qualifications
In this blog article, we'll look at some of the most sought-after talents and credentials that companies are seeking for and offer advice on how to acquire them.
I didn't realize that was the source video for this other video I periodically watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8ENJK0hvM).

TIL.
I've always loved the Stags too. Honestly the mx5 is a ton of fun just because it's that little bit 'newer', and doesn't have as many old car problems.. but it's definitely the same recipe!
Once upon a time, my conception of oil drilling was roughly that there were these giant tanks of oil underground, and to extract it we more or less stuck a straw down and sucked it out. And that one day, the well would make the same sound as the straw as you're finishing a milkshake, and we would suddenly have no more oil available.

Then circa 2002 I got a job at an oil well services company, and learned a lot of complexities about oil drilling. A key insight is that not all oil is equally economic to extract, and therefore the amount of oil available to extract is only fixed for a given price and set of technologies. As prices go up, the amount of available oil goes up too; as technology invariably marches forward, the amount of available oil goes up.

This behaves nicely with the control system we call the free market. As oil gets used up, prices will go up, which will unlock more available oil acting as negative feedback. At the higher price, some oil users will find a different solution to their problem, while other oil users will grumble and pay up, acting as a second source of negative feedback. This process repeats as the available oil at the new price point is exhausted.

This same pattern exists for essentially all mined resources. We're not going to one day run out of cobalt or lithium or whatever. As mines that are economic at current prices shut down, its price will go up, and some users will find an alternative, while others will grumble and pay. The higher prices will enable mines that weren't viable at the lower prices.
I am curious yellow

on green is all that prints out? What's the rest of it for?
> I don't really see a difference between the two besides intent. Intent isn't really something that matters in today's world.

You can't have it both ways, though. In your original post, you said, "Second, she was releasing documents because she was angry that she was deployed." Clearly you believed her intent to be a big part of the reason why she shouldn't be considered a whistleblower.

And in this thread we've learned your "first" (she released nothing new) is also not really the case, and your "third" (she didn't try to use official whistleblowing channels first) is murky, in that she probably felt that the people behind the whistleblowing channels already knew about the things she was going to blow the whistle on, and had a vested interest in keeping them secret.

So I don't really see your objection here? It feels more along the lines of "if I were in her position I would have done things differently", which, fine, I think that's probably true of many people in many situations, but so what?
In Commodore's defense, Ranger needed (at the time) very expensive VRAM to work, and would have made Ranger-equipped Amigas prohibitively expensive.
Yeah that's exactly what I am saying. If you want your entire team to be have a monoculture go for it! I think diversity (in all kinds) is good and many of the very best engineers I've worked with came from non traditional backgrounds.
There is very little that is more unifying to so many people than Beethoven's music. I'm sure you are aware that the 9th symphony was played to mark the re-unification of Germany, and the fall of the Soviet Union, famously replacing the word "freude" (joy) with the word "freiheit" (freedom). It was chosen as the EU anthem for a good reason.

I personally think that was the message: this is a man whose father's brutal abuse likely caused his future deafness and an awful case of bipolar depression. His music was always lauded, but he was personally the subject of intense ridicule throughout his life and career. And as a result he gave us lots of music that represented that torment vividly, and plenty more that told us to rise above it.
No, there's some balance. Both grounding all flights over ever safely issue is wrong but so is not.
> Maybe someone with more architectural knowledge of LLM systems can fill in the gaps in my knowledge, but where’s the feedback loop that would allow actual self-awareness to develop? FAFAIK, LLM’s are feed-forward networks. There are neither small cycles spanning a few nodes, nor integral cycles allowing the model to see what it’s outputting – the only feedback it gets is through the training process, which does not act as a mirror.

This is, AFAIK, true of bare LLMs. Systems consisting of LLMs and a control interface that does reprompting which includes the earlier LLM responses (e.g., chat interfaces like ChatGPT) do provide the model with its output as feedback and show learning within the loop (though obviously this learning doesn’t reach back to the base model). The cognitive features of such a loop, such as they are, may well be different than those of a bare LLM considered in isolation.

I still think Yudkowsky is a crank and that taking him seriously is a bigger danger than AI.
Does each person get a set number or are they unlimited? Is there some prerequisite criteria?
> If thinking/understanding/reasoning/whatever can be fake, it should be testable

I agree with everything else you said, but this is a point I disagree with.

Just because something isn't testable, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Theoretically, the state of facts could be such that 1) human minds can think (as in, have consciousness and perform the process that is known to us as "human thinking") and 2) machines cannot think (as in, they don't have consciousness, but are literally just mechanisms that appear to provide same output as humans for a certain set of inputs).

I don't think it's true, in fact, I don't think consciousness itself is anything more than a convenient illusion, but I still must point out that "what is real must be measurable" is not a valid argument.

A more precise formulation might be "if thinking can be fake, the only way we can prove it is if it's testable - otherwise it doesn't make sense to discuss it".
Ah, when that happens for me, I keep trying to learn new things. I call it professional development.

And that's served me well too. Every time I job hop, I already have that "hot new skill in demand" along with 30+% salary increase.

And I don't feel bad one bit. I know that every job 'takes advantage' of me and my worth, since by definition, capitalist companies will ALWAYS keep the surplus of my labor. I will never see 100% of my efforts when working for others.

Do I have to take part in the system? Well, I like eating and living in a home, and these life things. And those are implicitly threatened and me blamed if I don't. So I play the "game". I certainly wasn't born in a family I didn't have to play that game.