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And now most democrats don't care when the brunt* of this is being felt by those who they are against and seem to be in love with the organizations doing the acts they once protested as long as it is against their political opponents. During new revelations of impropriety of the FBI, at times admitted by the FBI themselves as incredible as it seems, they routinely accuse people who raise concerns about its actions as being unpatriotic "russian assets", as they have been doing with zealous fervor for over half a decade already.

I completely agree with your position that the stance on the war on terror was abhorrent - although I wouldn't claim it to be as uniquely republican as you make it out to be, democrat warmongers were and are aplenty, and it was under obama that the biggest surveillance scandals of this century occurred-. All this shows is that both sides are about as hypocritical as the other really, three letter agencies are good when they're on my side, bad when they're on the other side, the population in general be damned.

*:curiously they may not even have been the brunt of people that felt it, due to its use on the george floyd riots.
I suspect that was sarcasm, but I think it's true. We were too busy talking about the new stuff in the present, and what we were trying to build for the future. It's a real shift - not total, but it's there.
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Absolutely, these restrictions are insane. I'm pretty "anti-car" but throwing random restrictions on under 25 year olds doesn't seem like a good solution to the problem.

The red traffic light proposal is absolutely insane.

Also thanks for posting the articles.
lynx(1) on termux does this automatically. :)

Yes, I use lynx as my main browser except for HN. Everything else is lynx.

Further OT: My ex-father-in-law will tell me in SMS or email something to the effect of "Use a graphical browser...[to see this URL]."
Mind explaining why you say that? (I can think of several reasons, and I'm wondering which one is your reason.)
Lol, we're so pampered today.

Watch Tasting History with Max Miller (https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCsaGKqPZnGp_7N80hcHySGQ). Every old recipe used to leave out salt, not explain any technique, times, temps, types of ingredients, and barely had proportions. People who cooked recipes were usually professionals who just knew how to cook things. It was around the end of the 19th century that cookbooks for home cooks came out, and they too didn't explain much.

If you are really interested in cooking, either take a class, or buy a book that teaches you how to cook. La Technique and Mastering the Art of French Cooking are excellent instruction manuals. If you learn better from video, Jacques Pepín did a 3 hour video of cooking mostly everything in La Technique.
00s were imho the most corporate era of gaming, being after the 90s when the likes of Wright, Sawyer, Carmack et al managed to succeed with only small teams, and before 10s when "indie" gaming made its rise. Lots of good things can be said about SC4, but artisanal is not one of those.
Perhaps but not sure how much that matters from the perspective of a corporation looking for more revenues.
I especially like the end of that video where he discusses trying to transcribe regular speech to music notation. It completes a part of my music theory mental puzzle.

Admittedly, I know very little beyond high school band, but the theory always felt arbitrary. Like, whenever I would try to drill down on something like why notes are the frequencies they are, I eventually got to “We don’t know.” That left me thinking either only that teacher didn’t know or the theory was BS.

Now I see it was neither. Music is something we irrational, inscrutable humans made up. Music theory, even at its most brilliant, is just an approximation. I always thought music theory describe fundamental, physical truths that humans intuitively discovered. Now I see that music theory describes our intuitive understanding.

Sort of like how a recipe calls for 1/4 tsp salt but people just use a pinch. I thought the people were being imprecise. But it’s really that the recipe cannot precisely capture all the variables in cooking that actually makes “a pinch of salt” a more precise description.
> Most of peoples social interactions are between aluminum and glass sheets. I don’t believe it’s going to matter what’s on the other side soon.

It already doesn't matter too much, if you look at how many people are just screaming into the twitter void with barely any interaction. Getting AI feedback rather than none at all would be an improvement for many.
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It's important to note that "North America" != "United States." It likely means a shift to production in low-cost Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, etc.

I'm in the USA. I've seen this subtle dishonesty in packaging "Made in North America" which most consumers equate with "made in Canada or USA". The joke's on us.
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Recipe writers are the original large language models, making up superfically plausible bullshit to waste our time on.
Usually, by abusing the financials to give yourself outsized rewards, like this case right here.

Regardles of the legal structure, it's always about power: who has it and who they are responsible too. For a largely unaccountable entity like Wikimedia, with the power to print money by simply placing a banner on the site, it was only a matter of time until it was to be captured by a self serving clique.
Electricity does not inherently produce carbon, which I'm told is the problem with warehouses full of GPUs churning constantly for trivial playthings.

Tax the carbon, tax overdraft fees, and tax the eons my money spends floating around the financialverse doing whatever it does instead of going from A to B in less time than it took the Pony Express to send a letter across the country.
Sure. But it was the commenter writing the misunderstood joke that said 'PhD in' (just omitted the next word), I was just explaining that.

> people try to be helpful by adding what field or topic their actual research was about

Right, and a common way to do that is to say 'PhD in blah', or 'on bazzing foobars for blah' as though 'PhD' referred specifically to their thesis.
We can't all work for the world's largest <insert industry> either.
This demonstrates why the Schrems II judgement was so important.
Ninth edition is the latest (published 2011):

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-...
Man who spends $2M a year to look 18 is swapping blood with his father and son
Briefcase cash is so gauche - you just hire them when they “retire” from public service. Much more proper and you don’t even need to explicitly offer - everyone knows how the bread is buttered.
I didn't originally, I used MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS and even I think PTS-DOS at some point. I liked trying weird stuff.

This is well past the point where any of this actually mattered. It's just plausible to me that there was more than one reason for it. Eg, that Windows poked in DOS brains and did weird stuff is a very convenient thing to the higher ups who wanted an excuse to have less competition, so both things can be true at the same time -- that Microsoft was unethical, but there was a technical reason as well.

Arguably of course all of that should have been documented and have a proper API for it
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Most other IP lookup tools I've found are mostly just trying to push you to signup for their API, which is fine but less useful if you're just trying to figure out which IP addresses in your log files are from sketchy locations and likely to do bad things to your application.

I merged together a bunch of APIs and some of our own honeypot collected data to make something I hope devs and security folks find useful.

If you want to try out a "bad" IP, try this one:

https://wafris.org/ip-lookup/104.244.72.115
> TIL(JavaScript): A BigInt is created by appending n to the end of an integer literal — 17n

Am I the only person who thinks that looks ugly? I initially misread it as a typo for 17*n.

In Python it would just be 17. Python knows when an int is a bigint, because it is big.
Wrong on all counts.

I can't think of many use cases where Swift is actually better, though I do understand people believe it is. Why is...an interesting phenomenon.

In fact, it is difficult to conceive of a language less suited for the use cases Swift is touted for. See Swift playgrounds. See also: Mojo.

I think Objective-C seriously needs a replacement. Though it got a few fundamental ideas right, the details are almost all in dire need of improvement. Which is why it it is such a shame that the replacement is so unsuitable.

I really don't hate Apple. And my portfolio doesn't hate Apple either.
It's a special talent to be simultaneously capable in math & teaching it to people who are not.

Teaching 63 years worth of students + OCW views = a helluva legacy

Thank you, Dr. Strang!
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> But let's entertain the idea, let's see how you cover "the merits of Ukraine on its own". What's happening on this video and who's receiving the medals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwpBvJziSs&t=365s

Theres nazis in Ukraine just like how theres nazis in Russia and other countries what your point?.
Absolutely. I'm listening to it right now and that section always stood out to me as a specific rhythm thing they did. It's a GREAT example of Metallica shoving the beat around anyway they wanted, with Lars driving it (doesn't matter what the guitars want to do, if Lars doesn't reinforce it they won't be able to do that)

I can tell you an interesting counterexample: there's another song where if you don't get the microtiming you're not even close to the riff. "Mmm-bop" by Hanson.

In that one, the main drive of the song is eighths and sixteenths, but accents in the MAIN chorus hook are actually sixteenth triplets. If you overlay an insanely fast rhythm onto the song that's doing a frantic 'onetwothreeonetwothree!' it lines up perfectly with bits of the 'bop-doowop' vocal. This same trick also exists in the biggest Ace of Base hits, but instead of the vocal riff, it's the kick drum happening on triplets.

Hanson mentioned in interviews how people couldn't cover 'Mmmbop' properly, because they'd simplify the timing. If you covered Master of Puppets, you'd have to get the timing right as well :) this implies that Hanson, if they wanted, could do Master Of Puppets properly because they can hear timing that fast and would recognize what it was…
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That's like claiming that most people talking about the subjugation of women and girls in Iran are only doing so as an opportunity to bash Islam. Even if this unevidenced claim was true, women are still being treated appallingly, regardless of anyone's motivations for raising the issue.

For your information, I have talked to women adversely affected by male athletes competing in their leagues. The issue is not particularly complex to understand, most people can easily see the inherent unfairness in this.
I wish GPT-4 could make functional copies of itself on my computers and I’d find ways to allocate clusters for it to do so if it were possible, but until we see that level of development I don’t think that autoGPT and variations are a serious risk to humanity. Slowing down the adaptation and development of GPT-4 and more advanced tools is risky though, because we know what can be achieved by using them, and there is no reason to believe that nefarious entities would ever slow down.
>Keep in mind that this isn't an isolated case

True, this is one case that isn't mentioned much, but this gave Excel and Word its massive market share.

When Windows 95 was being developed, MS kept telling Lotus (and maybe Word Perfect) that OS/2 was the real future, so Lotus was focusing on a GUI version of their main product for OS/2. And Notes was originally developed on OS/2.

So Lotus had a nice version of 123 for OS/2 about to go, but the had to shift gears to Windows when W95 was released. Also there were rumors that MS was keeping some APIs secret to make it appear their products were faster than competitors.

When W95 came out, by magic, MS had a GUI version of Excel and Word, thus eventually killing those companies. Lotus had to shift gears and may have lost a couple of years to MS.
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Aww, I was hoping this was about the email client.
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Did you coin the hyper porn term? I think it will catch on.
All game generations have their 'best of' games. Of the 1700+ NES games maybe 50 or so are actually classics and worth your time. Then you have the band of 'nostalgia and tough', only play if you are in for a challenges, or it is a game you grew up with. Then 'do not bother' which is the majority of the games.

The same is true for MSDOS games, Genesis, 2600, MSX, PS1/2/3/4, XBox, GB, GC etc etc etc. The majority of games out there are just not good or have aged poorly on the graphic/playability front. I personally would recommend only a very small handful of games on the NES. Also one issue with some of these older systems is they were meant to be played on a 15-20 inch PAL/NTSC screen with interlacing. You splat that across a 65 inch OLED they tend to look bad. Your brain is good at making up the detail.
There are very few real-world-tasks where GPT-4 is worse at reasoning than the average person, right now only long-term memory, latency, TTS and STT makes virtual people suck. Once that is solved we should of course give them to old lonely disabled people.

I once met one, and it is extremely depressing. He was even rich, but had no idea how to get his life in order, and nobody cared about him. A helpful AI might tell him to go to alcohol therapy, hire people to clean up his house, explain bureacracy... That would help a lot.
What's the problem with a monk sharing wisdom on social media? Somebody has to spread the word.
But is it the most efficient way to ensure that level of quality?

PR-s influence the same code, so it is not enough to review PR-s individually anyway.
Maybe a weekly or monthly release would be a better unit for evaluation.

We have all kind of ways of producing diffs between branches, releases, tags, timestamps, etc?
Why would PR diffs be the most efficient unit to review?

Often PR-s are just a silly way to communicate between team members instead of just talking to each other. I.e., you sit in the same office and create and reject PR-s, when you could just say to you colleague: "if you do not like the name of that variable, feel free to change the name".

The main problem with the PR system is that changes to the code is not immediately committed to the branches that developers work on, so it limits cooperation between developers. You can still review commits to dev branches and if problems are found, you can fix them or in most cases undo them.
It's a shame Elm was abandoned.

Impossible to justify for serious projects at this point.
The intricate Vivaldi symphony finally graces the iOrcheStra. Alas, the song of the browsing maestro is still in rehearsal, with us on the sidelines of this Testflight waitlist.
> you don’t even need to explicitly offer

Which has the added benefit of plausible deniability.
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Related topic: Novgorod birch bark letters.

Although the language is different, it's another example of informal writing from a time and place where such findings are rare.
There’s another alternative: conference talks have a higher signal to noise ratio than just pushing a paper out into the void (the background noise). To get a talk, you need to be selected, so that act of selection is the first filter. After that it’s way easier to identify the good talks from the bad.
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I disagree with the author's assessment. I think it depends on how caramelized you want your onions, but there's a quick way to cook them.

I cook mine in a stainless steel pan without oil. The sugars will start to caramelize in the bottom of the pan. At a point I add a small amount of water to the pan (less than a tablespoon) and then cover with a lid. If it's a 10" frying pan, I use a 4" lid. The steam cooks the onions quickly and the cooked onions absorb the browned sugars from the bottom of the pan.

People really make cooking a lot more difficult than it needs to be. If it tastes good and your technique works, who cares?
Woah, we had AI back then? /s
Speaking as a failed scientist (I was “dishonorably discharged” with an MS from a top US institution) I will tell you that the brilliant people around me knew that paper citations don’t correlate exactly with the impact of work within. Certainly didn’t feel fair. But I can also say the system is way more meritocratic than medicine or finance
the US government is having to patch a whole lot of iPhones
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:ho...

Dec 2022
If you ignore economics; blockchains remain mega-cool.

Unfortunately, this is not possible in the real world where real money is required to operate a blockchain node.

Without incentive, people won't participate. Without adequate participation, security and reliability become suspect. Funding/incentive from a "centralized" source breaks the entire trust concept of blockchain. You're back to square one --- trusting a single actor. If you're willing to do this, blockchain becomes irrelevant --- there are simpler, cheaper, more conventional alternatives available to achieve the same result.

The only reasonable way to achieve the blockchain dream --- to simultaneously escape the bounds of centralized trust and incentivize blockchain participation --- is by inventing money --- crypto. And this leads down a different "mega-cool" rabbit hole that we won't go into at this time.
I have been in a similar rut lately, trying to recover the artwork from Glider 4.0 (the Glider before Glider Pro). I have the amazing Mini vMac set up with Glider 4.0 installed as well as one of the last ResEdit apps. I am literally opening the PICT resources with ResEdit on the emulator and taking screenshots on Mac OS Monterey of the emulator.

Yeah, then I get to tediously re-crop the artwork in the screenshots for correctness.

Also the screenshot is pixel-doubled (Retina display, I suppose) but a little GraphicsMajick fixes it:

gm convert doubled_image.png -filter point -resize 50% new_image.png
What I loved most about Elm was the syntax, types and it's incredible CLI . But I found the architecture and working with foreign data (JSON APIs) just too strict to be productive.
I don't think that's the main reason they don't like crypto.
I think it is appropriate to thoroughly consider the ethical implications of whatever you are doing, with the support of one of the many researchers interested in ethics
The dependence between China and the West works both ways, and yet look what is happening. Regardless of the reasoning why it should not, the direction is clear, and it won't be the first time that economies have been terribly damaged due to security concerns. We'll just have to leave this one to the history books.

Much of the rest you write is true, but once again we come to production and transportation costs. If the price of extraction and transportation drops below a profitable level over the long term, production will drop. If Russia can extract and transport gas at a lower energy cost than any other producer can do the same for Europe, Europe will have an increased disadvantage in manufacturing until sufficiently cheap alternatives are built. You're certainly aware of this, so I'm not even clear what we're debating here.
Why would anybody need a 100% renewable grid? Renewable grids will be 150% grids, that provide 50% more load than you normally need and 100% for 98% of the time. The remaining 2% of time where renewables can't deliver (windless/sunless winter days) will be covered by gas peaking power plants.

The goal is to avoid CO2 emissions at reasonable economic prices.
Is elm dead?
Yes, for example drawio.com is an application that happens to have a version that runs on the web (not affiliated, but use it a lot). That's a very different situation from e.g. developer.mozilla.org, which is more text-centric and where being able to send someone a link to a particular section on a particular page is extremely useful.
In my experience most metal musicians can hold their own with the best of them when it comes to hard core music nerding with thing like idiosyncratic time signatures and unusual chord and key changes.
Would you mind sharing a link / citation for this? Elm releases are intentionally long and the project appears to be ongoing [1].

[1]: https://iselmdead.info/

Edit: moved the position of the citation.
I've been waiting for this. I don't know what to think. 20 $/month is steep but you get a lot (calendar, contacts, drive, lots of storage, vpn, nice clients).

But atm I have a 3.50 eur/month plan with unlimited domains and users (at vimexx)... I know, I know, it's not the same product... I sync cal/cards with NextCloud, and I am a fan of MullVad when needed... Well, I'm going to be rationalizing subscribing to this for the next few weeks I guess... It's just, just a tad to much I fear.
If you crank up the heat you're not caramelizing, you're browning (burning). Caramelizing is a chemical process which requires lower heat and longer time.
Sadly, Ive lost enthusiasm for Haskell years ago.
Instead of a GirlfriendGPT, a personal assistant GPT - which is hosted in a private location, and receives feeds of all your personal data ( emails, calendar, fitbit) and adhoc ( I can send a note to it saying I drank 6 beers last night).

It also then remembers all the past conversations, and i guess by then forms a decent idea of your tastes, etc.

This would be an amazing tool!
> I think you're leaving out the extent to which cooking is an analogue process.

The main difference between cooking and process chemistry is that the latter actually cares about quality of the end result.

There is some unavoidable variation because of the inconsistency in ingredients and lack of access to tools that would mitigate it. However, the typical kitchen tools are also just bad by design, with any kind of precision or consistency long ago "value engineered" out of them. And now we also learn that cooking recipes are mostly pulled out of their writers' arses, to the point you might as well ask GPT-4, and save money on a cookbook / avoid exposure to ads and made up life stories on-line.

Hell, GPT-4 can at least also give you a Gantt chart to go with your recipe[0].

In the end, the only way to deal with this is by hand-holding the process, performing minute adjustments as guided by experience. This makes cooking much more of an art than it could - or should - be.

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[0] - Some assembly required. Taste and safety not guaranteed, as I can't cook to save my life. https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/a349a38e-0e24-470e-a1c8-3...
>Many african countries are extremely resource rich. They do have money, but also corruption sapping a lot of it away.

Which is why they need their leaders replaced by Western puppets, which will divert all the riches to the West and leave some crumbs to the citizens. Since the current power structure doesn't leave anything to the citizens, leaving crumbs would be an improvement. See India for example.
When I was a kid I loved SimCity 2000, and then SimCity 4. I spent hours on them. Sadly I can't get myself to play them anymore, I just keep thinking these are games you need to invest too much time to have fun and I just have too much to do. I miss not worrying about that.
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